Okay, so this is going to be a "stating the obvious about Amy Pond" update, but one of the things I really like about her story, broadly speaking, is how much it's about memory. And no matter how many times the universe gets rewritten or paralleled, Amy keeps those memories, and *fights* for them - because she's Amy, because she's a time traveler, ( Read more... )

First book read of 2012: Tamsin.

...yeah.

So, is 2012 going to be the year in which I am a caricature of myself? Because it's already kind of starting out that way.

I knew better, but I did it anyway. Oops.

I'm having one of those feeling-jealous-because-I-just-read-Tamsin-again sorts of days (well, several days). There aren't actually that many books in the world that I wish I'd written, funnily enough: there are plenty of books I love, of course, and plenty of books that have had the sort of effects on me ( Read more... )

Because I was doing that "have to teach, can't sleep" thing in the early hours of this morning, I found myself thinking about books involving Elizabethans (or Tudors) and magic or fairies. In theory, this should be a cross-section that is uniformly pleasing to me, but in practice there aren't that many books in this category that I like.

( various lists )

Name fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you, and don't take too much time to think about it (the first fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes). Copy this into your own post.Many of these books will be familiar, I think. It was a fairly easy meme to do, since after years of moving from dorm to home and back (mailing ( Read more... )

Neil Gaiman's introduction to a Doctor Who novel has popped up on a couple of my various online reading lists, and on his blog itself, of course. The part that amuses me most is this sentence ( Read more... )