Ugh, why is cross-posting not working on this...

70. Ellen Klages, White Sands, Red Menace -- the second book in the Gordon Family saga of historical kidlit books, set shortly after The Green Glass Sea. ( I enjoyed this one, too (spoilers) )

51. Ursula Vernon, Giant Trouble (Hamster Princess 4) -- these are still super cute! In this one, Harriet takes on "Jack and the Beanstalk". The humour in this one, a lot of which had to do with the giant (a giant lop hare :D) having really stinky feet, but, OK, target audience. ( More, with mild spoilers, I guess? )

I'm way behind on RL posting (my past week and weekend have actually bee quite busy, in a mostly-good way), but I've hit another point where I just want to talk about books. So!

37. Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue -- This was a birthday present from aome, but actually even before I got the book as a gift I heard about it from ikel89 ( Read more... )

(I'm not sure yet if I'll start cross-posting from DW for real, but I'm giving it another shot with the public posts, for now). \

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21. Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited -- Not as cute as Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda but still pretty darn cute, and I read the whole thing in one day, or little more than that. This is a book that's ( Read more... )

I am so behind on reading, you guys... Partly it's work being crazy, but mostly it's the phone, quite honestly. Well, that, and feeling sort of adrift, fannishly -- nothing I've read recently has really grabbed me, and I haven't even managed to finish watching a movie since Moana, like 2 months ago. But I finally managed to scrape up a couple of ( Read more... )

4. Rose Lerner, Listen to the Moon (Lively St Lemeston #3) -- so, this was an OK book for me, but it did drive home the realization that it was True Pretenses that was the (happy) fluke, nor Lerner's writing as a whole -- Sweet Disorder and this book were fine, enjoyable reads, and I even want to read more Lively St Lemeston books, because I've ( Read more... )

Catching up on Snowflake Challenge, days 7-13:

Day 7: In your own space, create a fanwork. Make a drabble, a ficlet, a podfic, or an icon, art or meta or a rec list. Arts and crafts. Draft a critical essay about a particular media. Put together a picspam or a fanmix. Write a review of a Broadway show, a movie, a concert, a poetry reading, a ( Read more... )

An assortment of fannish things!

1) fandom_stocking extended its deadline to Wed, 1/11. I am usually impatient to see all the goodies revealed, but this year I'm greatly relieved, because between the stockings going up pretty late, crazy work, holiday, and feeling sick, I haven't actually managed to do anything yet, beyond browse and take notes, ( Read more... )

Another clearing of the decks, fannishly, before I dive into Yuletide reading -- the two books I've finished recently (though there should be at least one and maybe two more for the year, since I'm in the middle of several).

75. Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet -- I'd seen this book pop up on my flist several times, so when it ( Read more... )

I have two weeks of life stuff to catch up on at this point, but meanwhile, I really want to talk about non-RL stuff, books and movies and things.

So we went to see Doctor Strange last weekend. B found the movie too bloody (the hospital parts) and too strange weird for his taste, but O and I really liked it. And I'm very glad we saw it a) in ( Read more... )