So, I've been diving in to Sherlock Holmes fic - experiencing rapture of the deep, really. Most of the stories I've read so far are incredible - I must have found a picky rec-page, because this level of quality is surely unusual ( Read more... )

From Gail Collins' column in the NYT: "This week, Barton became the star of another hearing, which was convened to grill Tony Hayward, the chief executive of BP. The rosy-cheeked Englishman had the kind of dopey sullenness you might find in an underachieving student at the Hogwarts detention room."

LOL... alaana_fair should start a new meme: Which Harry Potter ( Read more... )

Also, I've been reading candle_beck 's Sherlock Holmes stories. Hot diggety damn, she's (he's?) good. Highly recommend if you are into Holmes/Watson even in theory.

Meme stolen from Bryoneybrynn:

I've bolded the ones that i've read. I start out really strong, but peter out towards the end. Too much H/D in my life, I guess....

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (well ( Read more... )

My fiance has a crush on Robert Pattinson ( Read more... )

Thank you, Romaine, for the gift! That was incredibly sweet, considering how inactive I've been in fandom for the last... long... while. I've never really felt a part of fandom, mostly because I don't know how to do the work it takes to make LJ friends, but your gift made me feel included, and warm and fuzzy to boot ( Read more... )

I just learned that Sarah Rees Brennan, formerly known as Maya and Mistful, has not only taken her fics down and requested that those who have downloaded her master fic file not share it with others, but she has reportedly deleted her own stories from her hard drive ( Read more... )

I've never read Samuel Butler. Until now, that is. Why is that? I shall never know. What I do know is that he is my new dead literary soulmate.

From The Way Of All Flesh:

(I have underlined the part of the text that I brought to my lips and kissed.)

Nor yet did he know that ideas, no less than the living beings in whose ( Read more... )

So, sadly, about a month ago we had a death in our little voluntary family: Googly-Eyed Pete went to meet the Great Goldfish in the Sky. This left poor Ginny Weasley quite bereft, so I knew I must get her another fishy little companion ( Read more... )

I really can't imagine a better holiday than the one I'm having right now - my boyfriend making the turkey and about to go wrap my presents, my tree decorated and, underneath it, presents to all my friends waiting for them to come over tonight, reading a promising hd_holidays story in front of the fire (The Great Divide), and outside my city is ( Read more... )