I have been meaning to do the snowflake_challenge for years, but I also forgot until the middle of January. But this year! This year egelantier's post reminded me, and so I am doing it.

In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts. ( Read more... )

What I’ve Just Finished Reading

Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light, which is not quite what I expected (in particular, I expected more Claire), but liked quite a bit nonetheless. It’s as much a series of interconnected short stories as a novel: each chapter focuses on the story of a different character (Claire’s father & Claire, the cloth- ( Read more... )

What I’ve Finished Reading

Jaleigh Johnson’s The Mark of the Dragonfly, which never quite gelled for me, unfortunately. The premise of a world where objects from other worlds fall out of the sky intrigued me, but the book doesn’t end up doing much with it - the objects don’t seem to have had any real effect on the world’s culture, except as curios ( Read more... )

What I’ve Just Finished Reading

By popular demand, I read Hilary McKay’s A Little Princess sequel, Wishing for Tomorrow, and I’m happy to say I quite enjoyed it! I read the whole thing in one evening: the narrative force tugged me along so fiercely that I almost forwent an ice cream excursion because I wanted so much to keep reading ( Read more... )

Sutcliff Swap is open! I got a lovely story from bunn, Audrsaga (it even has a Viking title!), about Aud's journey to Iceland. I love this take on Aud's character: of course she had youthful dreams of leading expeditions as a shield maiden, but even though those dreams are only coming true now that she's a grandmother and a queen, she can still enjoy ( Read more... )

What I’ve Just Finished Reading

Nothing really. I haven’t read very much this week. :(

What I’m Reading Now

I’m still listening to Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo. asakiyume, I think you might like this, particularly if you run into the audiobook: it’s this rich melange of detail, the physical details of the setting, stories about the history of Mexico and ( Read more... )

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I wrote a ficlet! A ficlet for the Sutcliff companion animals comment fest. Naturally it involves people transforming into animals, because that's just how I roll.


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I've read enough Sutcliff at this point that I found The Witch's Brat something of a breath of fresh air: it's quite different from much of her other work and doesn't push the same buttons. The book takes place in medieval England rather than ancient Roman Britain (or the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries), the hero Lovel doesn't have a dog, ( Read more... )

At the beginning of Mark of the Horse Lord, the gladiator Phaedrus receives his wooden foil and is swiftly cast adrift into the world. But he doesn’t drift long before he finds himself recruited by some Dalriadain tribesmen: Phaedrus is the spitting image of their lost prince, and they want Phaedrus to impersonate said prince in order to take back ( Read more... )