The last of this Christmas’ Bapton Books list of memorable books and authors: our canon, as it were: is now posted.

A very happy Christmas to all.

And now to dine….                         

Following on, today we look at cricket and angling, hunting, shooting, rural life, the land (and, as it happens, courtesy of MSP, baseball).

I did promise to mention when B&N / Nook had Cross & Poppy. Consider it mentioned.

In materially unrelated news, we at Bapton Books - having seen the social media meme w/r/t ‘ten books that have “stayed with” one’ - decided that was inadequate, and have been recommending numerous books in very many categories. It may be of some utility to those ( Read more... )

You mustn't miss the two best things to come of the HD Remix this year (thus far at least):

http://community.livejournal.com/hd_remix/23780.html

and

http://community.livejournal.com/hd_remix/23351.html

And it's brill, a super start to the fest.

And bash the Frogs.

In other news, my friends are superb.  Tree_and_leaf (by Niggle) and nineveh_uk have been ficcing again.  Great riches in a little room.

… on all manner of topics, including of course the fact that Gordon Brown individually and Labour generally are manufacturing more porkie-pies than the yearly outputting of the whole of Melton Mowbray.

But sod that.

I give you - those of you who aren’t hopelessly heterosexual men, or women who’ve no use for lads even as objects of slash-fic - this ( Read more... )

It were impossible, however, that I should fail to advert you to azdak’s utterly brilliant Wimseyfic, here:

http://www.englishanddrama.at/FannishStuff/wimseyfic/

It is almost perfect.  (There are perhaps two dubious notes and one possible anachronism.)  My only real criticisms of it are, firstly, that some chapters are in type that is rather too ( Read more... )

 
… And if you don’t, stop reading this and go there - as you may know, kaalee had the brill idea of having everyone rec one work of his or her own that somehow missed fire or was buried in events and wants re-promoting ( http://kaalee.livejournal.com/319650.html).

One.

Well.

Three of mine - all gen-ish - got rather lost in the various international ( Read more... )

And therefore you've no remaining excuse for further delay in scraping acquaintance with
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