Title: A Walk in the Park
Characters: Sam, Cassie
Pairing: Sam/Jack
Genre: UST
Word Count: 833
Rating: PG
Beta: hope_tang
Disclaimer: I don't own Stargate and will never make a dime from this; I wouldn't even want to. I just love the universe enough to want more of its characters. Same goes for the blatant Say Anything reference.
Note: This is my first ( Read more... )

( spoilers and squee )

A woman from my book club recommended The Forgotten Garden, and I knew right away that I wanted to read it. It starts out with a four-year-old girl found alone at an Australian port, unable to remember her name. The portmaster and his wife take her in and raise her, but when as an adult she learns the truth, Nell feels that she no longer has any ( Read more... )

The second book in Rick Riordan's new Olympian demigods series, The Son of Neptune, follows The Lost Hero but also parallels it in many ways. In this story, it's Percy Jackson who has had his memories taken and is completely out of his element, remembering only his name and a blond girl named Annabeth. On the run, fighting monsters who won't stay ( Read more... )

As the third book in the Seven Realms series begins, Raisa and Han are each making their way home to the Fells across the war-torn countries of Arden and Tamron. Han is searching for Raisa, whom he knows as Rebecca, following her very sudden disappearance. By the time their paths cross, she's been poisoned and is dangerously ill. He brings her to ( Read more... )

( spoilery as usual )

I'm going to depart a little from my usual book review format, bypassing the plot summary to get right to the squee! (Though if you'd like, there's a short summary on the Amazon page.) I make no promises of coherence.

( Massive spoilers for the entire book and for Castle through episode 4x01, Rise )

I got a banner for my castle100 Knockout drabble! It's a participation banner, so it's not like I won anything, but this is the first time I've ever gotten a banner, so I'm happy :)


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Title: Retreat
Word Count: 100
Prompt: Recovery - for castle100
Spoilers: Rise (4x01)
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairing: Beckett, Castle/Beckett UST
Summary: A glimpse of Beckett's summer (that's as non-spoilery as I can make it)

( Retreat )

Before heading out on a recent road-trip vacation, I decided that the ideal book for such a trip would be something by Bill Bryson. I've been meaning for the last several years to read I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away, so I checked it out of the library and we hit the road. It absolutely was an ideal ( Read more... )