YULETIDE???
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osprey_archerYOU GUYS I cannot believe that it's already practically time for Yuletide noms! WHERE DID THE TIME GO????
Right now I have two thoughts for nominations:
1. Michelle Cooper's Montmaray Journals, though I feel kind of greedy asking as I got two awesome fics for them last year. But more is always better!
Plus, this gives me another chance to tell you why you all need to read A Brief History of Montmaray and its even more delightful sequel, The FitzOsbornes in Exile! (The third book hasn't come out in the US yet. I WANT THIS BOOK SO MUCH IT BURNS IN MY SOUL.)
Our heroine-narrator is Sophie, a charmingly bookish young women with a voice like Cassandra of I Capture the Castle, who lives in a decrepit castle with her brother and her cousin Veronica (who is made of AMAZING and is a socialist) and her mad uncle the king, on the island of Montmaray in the Bay of Biscay in the 1930s.
This ruling an island gig would be much better for Sophie and co. if they a) had any money, or b) had any inhabitants - but sadly they lost both in the first World War. And if that weren't enough, then the Nazis arrive to do some surveying.
The characters, you guys! (Seriously. VERONICA. But I love them all.) The light but expert hand with period detail! The seamless melding of personal emotion with fraught political peril! These books are brilliant and I urge you all to indulge.
2. The Baby-sitter's Club, so I can finally get the Claudia Kishi/Ashley Wyeth fic that I've wanted since I was, like, twelve. HALF OF MY LIFE, YOU GUYS.
I haven't decided who else to nominate for the other two BSC character slots - so many possibilities, you know?
And I haven't decided what to nominate for my third fandom. If no one else definitely commits to it, I'll probably nominate Megan Whelan Turner's Queen's Thief series, because what is Yuletide without Queen's Thief fic?
But if someone else does commit to that, I'm not sure what to nominate.
Then again, I could always just go with this Russian music video...
Right now I have two thoughts for nominations:
1. Michelle Cooper's Montmaray Journals, though I feel kind of greedy asking as I got two awesome fics for them last year. But more is always better!
Plus, this gives me another chance to tell you why you all need to read A Brief History of Montmaray and its even more delightful sequel, The FitzOsbornes in Exile! (The third book hasn't come out in the US yet. I WANT THIS BOOK SO MUCH IT BURNS IN MY SOUL.)
Our heroine-narrator is Sophie, a charmingly bookish young women with a voice like Cassandra of I Capture the Castle, who lives in a decrepit castle with her brother and her cousin Veronica (who is made of AMAZING and is a socialist) and her mad uncle the king, on the island of Montmaray in the Bay of Biscay in the 1930s.
This ruling an island gig would be much better for Sophie and co. if they a) had any money, or b) had any inhabitants - but sadly they lost both in the first World War. And if that weren't enough, then the Nazis arrive to do some surveying.
The characters, you guys! (Seriously. VERONICA. But I love them all.) The light but expert hand with period detail! The seamless melding of personal emotion with fraught political peril! These books are brilliant and I urge you all to indulge.
2. The Baby-sitter's Club, so I can finally get the Claudia Kishi/Ashley Wyeth fic that I've wanted since I was, like, twelve. HALF OF MY LIFE, YOU GUYS.
I haven't decided who else to nominate for the other two BSC character slots - so many possibilities, you know?
And I haven't decided what to nominate for my third fandom. If no one else definitely commits to it, I'll probably nominate Megan Whelan Turner's Queen's Thief series, because what is Yuletide without Queen's Thief fic?
But if someone else does commit to that, I'm not sure what to nominate.
Then again, I could always just go with this Russian music video...
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Date: 2012-09-10 01:02 am (UTC)And, ah, if you give me your email address, I'll send over Book 3 - or just email me at k8distaff at gmail. (Since nothing will stop you from buying the book in October anyway) :D
Because FITZOSBORNES AT WAR. SLKFOSDIGHS:DFLKSDJF YES.
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Date: 2012-09-10 04:12 am (UTC)Gah I do not have time to be reading books for fun now. :( But once my schedule clears up a bit, I may take you up on that...
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Date: 2012-09-10 04:23 am (UTC)You're far better than me with being able to resist books in order to benefit the long-term! Definitely let me know if things clear up, and I'll send it on.