I reread Page over Christmas break, and then didn't post about it because things got busy, and also because it is my favorite book with my favorite Tamora Pierce heroine, so there's not much to write about it except SQUEE ( Read more... )

I had so much fun with hc_bingo (and wrote so much fic) that I decided to sign up for trope_bingo, which is pretty much the same idea but with extra weirdness. Coffeeshop AUs! Steampunk AUs! Wingfic! Let's be honest, I am kind of sorry I didn't get a square for wingfic ( Read more... )

YOU GUYS YOU GUYS YOU GUYS my parents are bringing me the latest Obernewtyn book from New Zealand! (They're on sabbatical. They have the best sabbaticals when I'm not around. They went to France for a year once. This was before I was born ( Read more... )

I've been rereading Protector of the Small, a.k.a. my very favorite Tortall series because Neal and Lerant (oh Lerant, my angst hedgehog!) and most of all, KEL ( Read more... )

Reading Emperor Mage. I want to visit Lindhall Reed's laboratory SO BADLY. ALL THE LITTLE GLASS HABITATS. I WANT TO SEE THEM. Also Bonedancer ( Read more... )

Bizarre Tortallan factoid of the day: all fiefs are limited to forty men-at-arms. No matter how lively the border on which they sit, not matter how raid-prone their Scanran neighbors are, no matter if their fief is five hundred miles square: forty men at arms. The fact that Dunlath has exceeded this number, and moreover set up heavy fortifications ( Read more... )

Here's a pattern that shows up time and again in the Tortall books. The heroine has a huge secret: Alanna's a girl, Daine ran wild with the wolves and forgot she was human, and Aly is the daughter of Tortall's spymaster. She's convinced that if her secret ever becomes known then her world will fall apart, and therefore keeps it clasped tight to her ( Read more... )

One of the things I find most off-putting when rereading Tortall is the way that the world warps itself to confirm the awesomeness of the main characters. Oftentimes secondary characters act as a sort of Greek chorus, laughing whenever the main character says something witty and admiring whenever she does something admirable. (It's not just the ( Read more... )

Oh, Daine. Daine, Daine, Daine. Daine was my favorite, favorite TP heroine back when I first read the Tortall books; I have LOTS OF FEELINGS about her and her world and will probably carpet you with posts ( Read more... )

Alanna, knowing quite well that George collected the ears - and sometimes the rest - of those who disobeyed his orders, hid a grin behind her hand.Ah, George Cooper. Everybody’s favorite King of the Rogue ( Read more... )