1. Your main fandom of the year?

I remained a committed multifandom girl.

2. Your favorite film watched this year?

It's a tie between Star Trek XI, for the sheer nostalgic fun of it and the new cast gaining my affection on their own, and Milk, which was both a good film based on real characters and a cinematic expression of the romance of ( Read more... )

More rec posts to come, of course, as I feel I've only just started to scratch the surface of all the fictional goodness.

American Gods

Do zla boga: Czernobog and the Zoryas arrive in America. (Incidentally, the Slavic gods are doing rather well in this year's Yuletide.) Captures both the otherness and the, in lack of a better term, person- ( Read more... )

Call me slow, but it didn't dawn on me that the title The Graveyard Book, is a play on The Jungle Book until I was half through, and then I couldn't believe I had missed it before. On the other hand, there was a point where I thought "aha, Pinocchio allusion", so there you go. But enough about other classics: The Graveyard Book is another example ( Read more... )