Reading Wednesday

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I forgot to do this last Wednesday, but I am still making my leisurely way through The Sisters Who Would Be Queen. Apparently I am unusual in that I don't particularly care for or about the Tudors as a personal interest, but as history there was a lot of interesting stuff going on around them, so. This is some of that interesting stuff, and I do like seeing Lady Jane Grey acknowledged as something other than the Victorian ideal of the helpless, innocent princess. Just because it was crap to be a woman at the time doesn't mean women didn't have interests, desires, and ambitions of their own, and act on them as much as was feasible.

I have also been reading a lot of fiction online, which I realized I tend to take as given, but which anyone vaguely interested in my reading probably does not (and I assume there's someone, which may be audacious of me, but lets me sleep at night, or something). So yeah, lots of fiction reading online, primarily fanfiction. It would be nice if it were possible to review and recommend pro fiction as precisely as fanfiction, but I realize the form doesn't lend itself to the option.

Also was pointed yesterday to the fantastic "Gorgon Girls," for poetry. Work like this makes me wish I dared return to reviewing, yet that becomes a more terrifyingly hazardous prospect by the day. So I re-link, and move on.