yuletide reveals and 2014 reading

[silverflight8]

This year I wrote one fic for Queen's Thief (Megan Whalen Turner), Rooftop Sneaking for morganstern, 1,500 words, about Eugenides teaching Eddis how to sneak around her palace.

I already recced my fic but I want to rec it again: Kushiel's Keys, by vibishan, 8,000 words, a what-if AU if Morwen succeeded in getting a child from Imriel and what

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[cherrytide]

I haven't read any of these but you've made me want to check them out! The Lays of Marie de France sounds fascinating.

Happy new year!

[silverflight8]

Yeah, I really liked her Lays! I also read Chretien de Troyes which is one of the other big French medieval works but his were much much longer (and the characters were not nearly as sympathetic!) so she goes on the list and not him.

Happy new year to you too!

[sherrilina]

Damn girl, how do you have time to read so much?! O_o Lol you must not watch much TV and read really fast!

Reverse those digits and you'll have the number of books I finished this year...;) (Although another 3 I almost finished. And will count towards 2015).

Would you mind posting a list here? I'm curious...like which Sophie Konsella novels did you read? I used to like her stuff alright, but I'm really behind on the Shipaholic series...

[silverflight8]

Yeah, I don't watch any TV! :P A good chunk were re-reads too, so I could read a lot faster.

Any standout books you liked this year?

Here's the list. It's kinda ugly because I didn't want to mess too much with formatting but it should hopefully be readable. This list is slightly embarrassing >.> I read all the Shopaholic books except the newest one, the Hollywood one. I have it in epub, I just can't...quite make myself read it yet. IDK, I guess I'm afraid it might ruin my happy bubble about the books.
[Spoiler (click to open)]Weight of Stone , Laura Anne Gilman

[sherrilina]

Ah you're missing out--so many great shows on TV these days

[silverflight8]

:) The last time I really watched and kept up with TV was when I was a kid - Treehouse was my favourite :P For some reason I just kind of stopped during school. The TV gathered dust in the basement and totally disused by the entire family, haha. I like reading your TV recaps though!

I don't count brief rereads, but I often re-read cover-to-cover (some of them were childhood books so I was curious to see if my memories were correct or if they held up. Mostly, they did.) I'm slowly rereading Blue Succubus at the moment actually.

Oh, I think I read one Kelley Armstrong and kinda bounced off them, but I'll look into Otherworld.

RE: Shopaholic. I agree, honestly. I like Becky but I think the structure of the books really holds Kinsella back; she can't really develop Becky because then the books wouldn't be about a shopaholic anymore...it's a problem.

[littlerhymes]

Spreadsheets are the best. :DDD

There's a lot on your list I need to get to! So many to-be-reads, sigh.

I love DWJ, Howl's Moving Castle was one of the first ones I ever read. Have you had a chance to read any more? She is so great!

[silverflight8]

They are so useful!

I knowwwww. My to-read pile grows by the day and it's terrifying.

I haven't read her other ones yet! HMC has a couple sequels, right? I think I'll go after them next.

[littlerhymes]

There's a couple of HMC sequels but I think they're pretty weak (by DWJ standards, which is still pretty good). But, anyway, there's so many DWJs for you to discover - sometimes I wish I could recapture that feeling of reading her for the first time. :)

[silverflight8]

Oh, OK! I've also heard about Chrestomeci (spelling???) which I definitely need to go after.

sometimes I wish I could recapture that feeling of reading her for the first time. :)
I definitely know what you mean! I wish sometimes I could read some of my favourites brand-new again, because they are amazing on reread but even more so the first time.