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choose wisely
More reading group business: below are the nominations for our first book club read. Two votes per person, and to those of you who nominated, you must use at least one of those votes on a title not suggested by yourself. All clear? Then let's go!
Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine (non-fiction)
Cold Light by Jenn Ashworth
The Haunting of Hill ( Read more... ) -
awesome people
Thanks to those of you who are interested in setting up a book group with me!
So far on the YES PLEASE LIST we have:
nahara (that would be me)
lemniciate (that would be Jenn)
chaosmaka
kuteki
etoiledunord
junkshop_disco
planejane
lizardspots
Sophie (BFF to Jenn)
The maybes/drop-ins...
sabriel75 - who may come to a meeting in August when she's in the country
And dear old kylezy who doesn't know what books are. *pets her ( Read more... ) -
Londoners?
CALLING ALL LONDON BASED BOOK ENTHUSIAST ON MY FRIENDS LIST.
I know there are some Londoners on my friends list (and some on lemniciate’s), so what I would like to propose to all of you is: what do you think of starting a reading groupI’m not talking about an on-line one (I’ve always found that on-line book clubs never work as well as our good intentions ( Read more... ) -
Teen Wolf
Teen Wolf
Stiles/Derek
Alpha Spikes by starbeast
Summary: AU. Alphas are like royalty and are offered their choice of any age eighteen-and-up virgin Omega for each year's heat season, as a 'thank-you' to all they've done for their compounds throughout the year. Derek is an Alpha and...yeah, Stiles. Stiles is an Omega. And still a virgin. In every way ( Read more... ) -
My gril crush, lemme show you it
So awards season has come and gone. Lots of great films/music and lots of boring speeches. :P
I just felt like sharing what has to be THE ULTIMATE acceptance speech, as given by my girl!crush, the beautifully clever Emma Thompson. I am not worthy. ♥____♥
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Recs: Suits
Suits (USA)
Gen
The New Deal by Closer
Summary: Harvey Specter, second year law student at Harvard, was walking home one night when he found a teenaged runaway named Mike freezing to death on his doorstep.
Rating: PG-13 (heed warnings)
Word Count: ~33,500
Comments: Sometimes I forget how good a gen fic can be. I get so wrapped up in my predetermined ( Read more... ) -
Recs: The Eagle
The Eagle
Bottoming Out and the multi-chapter sequel One Percenters by frackin_sweet
Summary: Modern AU where Marcus and Esca like riding motorbikes (and each other). But can a road rider and a motocross kid ever really make it work?
Rating: NC17
Length: ~50k overall?
Comments: Starts out as a long, and totally hot, PWP piece but slowly and deftly moves ( Read more... ) -
Recs: Marvel
The Avengers
Living in the Future by Closer
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Tony Stark is the boy genius who woke Captain America, and now he's stuck with him. That's not a bad thing, but between Steve's wide-eyed wonder at the new world and Tony's little fanboy crush, the awkwardness just keeps happening.
Rating: R
Length: 36k
Comments: As with everything ( Read more... ) -
Recs: Toy Story
Toy Story
* Under the Table and Dreaming by snooter
Summary: Andy met Sid when he was four years old, and while some things change, a lot of things stay the same.
Rating: NC17
Length: 15k
Comments: The moment I heard the concept of this I just knew it would work and boy snooter knows what she's doing. The characters are intelligently written and nothing ( Read more... )
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