New Anne Bishop! Really liked it (not as good as the first, better than the second), and I freaking loved Hope. Actually trying not to think about it too much, because it's another year before the next book. I 100% had a private midnight release party, though, where I set an alarm for a quarter to midnight so I could hunt it down ASAP and read it ( Read more... )

For my thirteen-ish cousin Michael, specifically. He actually likes fantasy (his favorite author is Rick Riordan)! I am so excited, y'all, the rest of the family is all Dean Koontz and Stephen King. I very much wish to encourage this, so I want to give him ebooks for Christmas, but I am kind of having trouble thinking of good YA with male ( Read more... )

• Apparently I'll be doing a Buffy xovers minilist? IDK, it turns out I think Dean Winchester/Connor Angel is AMAZING, and SHOCKINGLY, comparing stories recced to stories read makes the mass of Buffy xovers I just sorted look much tinier, so I think I'm gonna go through my tracked stories and even that shit out a bit (don't worry, I will totes spare ( Read more... )

I am kind of cranky about profic lately. Apparently I think people doing this for pay should be as good as people doing it for free on the internet? And then they aren't, and I get...cranky. Basically, I am reading a lot of beginnings and ends, and not a lot of middles, because that's where it all kind of falls apart ( Read more... )

Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

1. The Iron Dragon's Daughter (NOT FOR ANYTHING GOOD. JUST SEEING THE COVER FILLS ME WITH RAGE AND BETRAYAL.)
2. Great Uncle Dracula (The first chapter book I ever read by myself, in a single day. I was very excited! Also, the ( Read more... )

So I am reading some favorite-cliche stories (X goes back in time to save the ones they love!) and, confession: I ship Wesley/Illyria desperately. It was honestly the only storyline I gave a damn about in those final episodes, and the biggest reason I regretted the cancellation, because rumor had it they were actually going to go there. I cannot ( Read more... )

Somehow, Baen is EVEN COOLER than I thought. Those of you who remember my pimping post (and the whole Free Library awesomeness that prompted it) are probably baffled. Publishing house that cares more about readers than it does about squeezing every last cent of profit from those readers? How does it get "cooler ( Read more... )

Apparently, if you read enough of a Certain Kind* of Xander-fic, you will get a great craving for men's adventure fiction ( Read more... )

John Ringo is totally my profic equivalent of terrible-Xander-crossovers-girl.

Mediocre-to-okay media things that have surprised me recently ( Read more... )