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[wanderlight]

(1) Does anyone besides me & breathingbooks watch Avatar: The Last Airbender? (The delightful TV show, not the big cinema thing, which I still haven't seen.)

(2) I found a ton of books at my favourite annual booksale. It's held in this huge empty hangar that typically stores -- airplanes, I think, and you have to put in a lot of searching but you can get great

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[breathingbooks]

London is on my TBR pile too. Mists of Avalon failed my reluctantly given open-to-a-random-page test, but I know a lot of people like it.

[wanderlight]

Let me know what you think of London, when you read it. I'm actually terrible about historical fiction -- I like the stuff, and I find it very satisfying, but when it's in a to-read battle science fiction always wins. *sigh* Do you have any recommendations for incredibly compelling, picked-it-up-and-can't-put-it-down-type historical fiction?

[breathingbooks]

Elswyth Thane is my guilty creepy pleasure and Tracy Grant's Daughter of the Game was quite suspenseful. Also look at Deanna Raybourne/Rhys Bowen/Elizabeth Peters/Naomi Novik/Dorothy Dunnett.

My massive book rec list included YA and children's historical ficiton too.

[breathingbooks]

Also! I am so relieved that I'm not the only one re: my last poll. :D

[wanderlight]

Ahahaha, AWESOME. It's so easy to get hooked on, hey? Most people who watch it seem to report an obsession. I just finished it -- SO SAD that there's no more! WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO TO GET MY AVATAR FIX NOW? D:

(Aw, no problem! :) ♥)

[aqueousmist]

I've seen ~3 episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender. All my closest friends, minus one, watch it and love it, so it follows I end up watching it now and then whenever they watch it at uni/I'm at their house.

I LOVE the idea of having a book sale in a hangar -- but that may be because I was doing an assignment about an museum exhibition in one, hrmm.

[wanderlight]

You're surrounded by Avatar, and yet you're not a huge fan of it yet? :P

Ooh! What sort of assignment? That sounds interesting.

[glass_icarus]

sd;lfkjsdf I AM GOING TO WATCH A:TLA SOON. I SWEAR. SOMETIME WHEN I HAVE TIME TO MAINLINE EPS.

... in other news i am really really tempted to watch Who as well, omg. /o\

[wanderlight]

*prods* :P
They're actually only 20 minutes each, if that helps any? And I watched in spurts, like five or so eps at a time, not in full seasons, & that was definitely doable!

OH YAY WHO! I don't know which one to recommend more -- I think you would love this season, though, even if you haven't been into Who in the past, it definitely has a fairytale flavour you'd appreciate. :)

[avendya]

I thought London was not Rutherford's best, and dragged in places, but was otherwise OK.

I have not read A Door Into Fire or To Visit The Queen; SPECTRE has A Door Into Fire et. al., so I should check them out over the summer.

I hated Mists of Avalon. I had heard it was an important Feminist Science Fiction Book. ... yeah, it managed to annoy me in various ways, and basically, if this is feminism, I don't want it. I don't want to read 1,000 pages of women being miserable and self-sacrificing; I get that this happened, but I would prefer if they had more agency, and honestly, were happy. Sometime. In the 1,000 pages. (Then again, I have Issues with MZB in general.)

[ressie_noldo]

MZB is the person who wrote a series of >20 books about a planet populated entirely by white people, so it's not as though she's coming from a position of great trustability. (the in-universe explanation: 'a spaceship of white people crashed into it, so how could they not be white? -- yes, because that's not a problematic premise in itself, good job)

[avendya]

God, I'd managed to repress that piece of information. Yeah, Rita, there's that.

[glass_icarus]

...

Right, removing her stuff from (way way way way) down the reading list, I think. -.-;;