our address books for so long a slow scramble / now are palimpsests

[tryfanstone]

 Recs! (Pease don't ask about the writing just now. It will be fine.)

Comments

[amberdreams]

Ack you are at it again, woman! More things for me to wish I had time to read.... *waves madly*

[tryfanstone]

wish I had time is exactly the way I feel! But in the general scheme of things, for me, reading is always going to be top priority and everything else can jolly well fit round it!

- waving, hope very much all well! (Oh, and thank you for your Rome posts: we have - finally! - fixed a date in November and I have wandered over to stare at pretty pictures!)

[amberdreams]

Ah Roma.... I'm looking forward to May...

[moluren]

I adore these rec posts! And how lovely that you mentioned not_poignant's work - her Fae Tales verse is my current obsession. Have you read Game Theory?

[tryfanstone]

moluren, I'm so sorry to be late replying to you - organising away time, a little complicated.

But it really is great to know that you and I are reading the same kind of stories! (Which is a whole sideline into how very lucky we are that so many excellent people write for fandom!) And...hm. I love, really loved, not_poignant's whole series on Jack Frost and Pitch Black. And I am reading Game Theory, which is highly unusual for me, because I don't normally read (and don't rec) WIPs. Game Theory's a lovely piece of writing, and I'm enjoying it very much indeed, buuutt (you could hear that coming, couldn't you?) I think not_poignant's mention of it as idfic is very well made. Game Theory is, I think, very much about Gwyn and Augus - rightly so, and very well done indeed - and I'm enjoying it on that level. But what I loved about the Jack Frost stories was not only the character interaction (and the appealing hurt/comfort, pining, and redemption arcs we also see in Game Theory) but the strength of the plot, the great villains, and the

[moluren]

Haha, please don't apologize - I'm not around LJ much myself, these days. I really enjoy the lively fandom that is growing up - mostly on Tumblr, I think - around not_poignant's work: between the fanart, fanfic, playlists, original music compositions, roleplay and cosplay, there are lots of lovely people making themselves at home in her imaginative space. I actually stumbled across Game Theory first, and later read FtDWR/ISWF sort of as background, and that might be part of why I find Gwyn and Augus so much more engaging than Jack and Pitch - for me, the story started with them. :) Also, you may be in luck - after a Game Theory sequel, not_poignant says she's planning a fantasy trilogy that I think will have more of a quest format, and so probably resemble the early stories in tone and structure. She is marvelously prolific!

Speaking of our reading the same kinds of stories, I should mention that years of following your LJ finally convinced me to have another go at Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles. (I took a first pass at The Game

[tryfanstone]

I am so, so, glad you decided to have another look at Dunnett. She's...eh. Dunnett remains the one writer about whom I cannot be logical. Clearly, I have never got past the standard reaction! It's honestly smashing to know you're enjoying her. Although I strongly suspect that if I'd met her as a fiercely radical 16 and not a susceptable 13 I may well have felt the same way as you at the same age!

It's also lovely to her that not_poignant and everyone else involved is have such fun with the world she's created. That really sounds great! I do take your point about having started with Game Theory too - that emotional engagement with the characters is untouchable. (I feel the same way about Dunnett's Lymond and Niccolo - Niccolo's intriguing and frustrating, but he's not Lymond, and the Niccolo books are never going to have the same emotional resonance for me as Lymond.) But that quest series sounds absolutely superb - thank you, very much, for mentioning it