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[flowery_twat]

The OED word of the day almost always cracks me up. The word today is whelk. Already kind of funny, right? I mean it's hard to think of a situation where you'd really need to be able to talk about whelks. But then I scroll down to the various adjunct entries (obsolete uses, compounds and the like) and find: to be unable to run a whelk stall: an

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[bear]

Min writes awesome Viggo -- plus, you can get Viggo AND food in who you are when you're at home and Ripping Up the Rampion (which I always call "the one with all the lettuce").

Also, some nice Bean/Viggo: Comfort, as well as The Opposite of Lost (which is Bean thinking *about* Viggo), both by Gloria Mundi.

Also, pretty much everything zarah5 has ever written -- her fic is all here.

And possibly my favorite Viggorli story ever (it's so *calming*), Half Asleep and Dreaming, by mirabile_dictu

The book Snark was talking about is called The Secret Life of Lobsters, by Trevor Corson; I haven't read it yet, but it looks interesting. Also, any of the books from the "The Best American Sports Writing" series are awesome. They come out every year (trade paperback size), and in 2000 they put out a larger hardbound edition called "The Best American Sports Writing of the Century." You don't have to like sports or know anything about them, because the *writing* is awesome.

[flowery_twat]

Yaye! All those recs are sound awesome. I have read 'who you are when you're at home' which is definitely among my top 10 all time Viggo favs. <33

I'll try to remember to ask you about 'The Secret Life of Lobsters' once you're read it - it sounds great.

I'm leery about sports writing, I have to say. Professional sports tends to make me very angry. But it looks like today is 'keep an open mind, linney' day. And so I shall.

[snarkhunter]

I'll second the sports writing rec. I'm not much for sports, either--I watch football only under duress (which makes attending Penn State interesting), and the only pro sport I really like is baseball--but I really enjoyed reading some of the entries in Bear's copy of...oh, whatever it's called. :) The sports writing book.

After all, good writing is good writing, and some of that stuff is damn good.

[flowery_twat]

I loathe professional baseball. It just rubs me wrong in every possible way. And I second the football dislike, and the commitant annoyance that goes with being part of a big ten school (MSU in my case). But I have been known to enjoy some of the sports writing in the New Yorker, and you're right. Good writing is good writing.

Thanks.