It's probably pretty obvious that I took Shakespeare in the spring. Other than that, I read a lot of self-help books thinly disguised as social science? The stars are not part of any strict ranking system - it's all very much still in beta, although I will undertake to try to blog more about books in the coming year, even though I'm not sure LJ is ( Read more... )

No better way to dust off a dead journal than with a book review, so here we go. Hi all!

I read my second Eva Ibbotson novel, and it was a pure concoction of delight. It was A Countess Below Stairs, and the heroine, Anna, is a fabulously rich, privileged scion of Russian nobility who nonetheless does not possess a snobbish bone in her body. We get ( Read more... )

title: Dear Jon
words: 1,055
summary: Last week me and Sansa saw a really dumb movie. It was calle Dear John.
notes: Honestly it's only Jon/Arya if you squint really hard, but please indulge me if I want to pretend my OTP is actually generating fic ok. Comments are ♥ !
rating: PG
disclaimer: Jon and Arya belong to GRRM. Rickon's rainbow trout plush ( Read more... )

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There's a Phillip Pullman quote making the rounds on Tumblr, and it's from his introduction to Paradise Lost. It's about the genesis of His Dark Materials:

"Suppose that the prohibition on the knowledge of good and evil were an expression of jealous cruelty, and the gaining of such knowledge an act of virtue? Suppose the Fall should be celebrated ( Read more... )

thoughts on football, "hey roy don't let the door hit you on your way out" edition:

( las alas sin vida de vuelos suicidas )

Or, my thoughts on Dawn Treader.

Disclaimer: I have not read the book.

( they're not really spoilers if it's c.s. lewis right? )

title: hang the moon and the stars
words: 2,208
summary: jon and arya go on a road trip.
rating: R
notes: modern AU. this is a new year's gift for maruutsu, who is my brother from another mother and the sister of my soul and shipper of the bestest OTP in this 'verse or any other. i apologize for taking so long about it, and for not being able to write smut, ( Read more... )

January

(1)   James Luceno, Millennium Falcon (2008)

(2)   Judith R. Strozer, Language Acquisition After Puberty (1994)

(3)   Aaron Allston, Betrayal (2006)

February

(4)   Karen Traviss, Bloodlines (2006)

(5)   Troy Denning, Tempest* (2006)

(6)   Aaron Allston, Exile (2007)

(7)   Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of ( Read more... )

Hi! I'm so excited that we've got at least one or two fandoms in common. This is my first year doing this and I'm super psyched. I'm actually a pretty easy customer to satisfy, so please, write whatever strikes your fancy and I'm sure it will strike mine too.

General Stuff

First of all, I'm not looking for explicit sexual content. Which is not to ( Read more... )