2007-01-09

derien: It's a cup of tea and a white mouse.  The mouse is offering to buy Arthur's brain and replace it with a simple computer. (Default)
2007-01-09 10:02 am
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Book 2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Breakfast of Champions"

Another book that was a lot of fun to read.  Constant jumping back and forth and lots of little details about background characters lives and how they interrelate in this town.  Not much actually happens, I suppose - a guy goes off his nut and beats some people up - but it's all about the getting there and the details.  If I'd stretched this one out I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it as much, because it's a tumble, it creates it's own pace. 
derien: It's a cup of tea and a white mouse.  The mouse is offering to buy Arthur's brain and replace it with a simple computer. (Default)
2007-01-09 10:35 am
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Fic read in the first week of January

Just because I feel weird about posting only about books when a good deal of my reading life is online.  (For some reason my 'history' seems to start my week on a Monday.  *is puzzled*)

During the week starting 1/1 I read...

at least 6 [livejournal.com profile] daegaer fics:
Sailing to Hirugashima (Weiss Kreuz, Mamoru/Nagi AU) ♥♥♥♥
The Hinge Upon Which Perfect Happiness Turns (Weiss Kreuz, Nagi/Mamoru historical AU) ♥♥♥♥♥
The Luck of the Game (Weiss Kreuz, Crawford/Schuldig historical AU) ♥♥♥
(And three entries on her special filter which I can't link to.)

[livejournal.com profile] msliz4857's
A Letter From Jeeves ♥♥

And from Yuletide Treasure
Frontier Games (I don't know the fandom but it says it's Rosemary Sutcliff's "Eagle of the Ninth" series ) ♥
The Bridal Path (Addams Family) ♥♥
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective (If Somewhat Unnecessarily Violent) Assassins (Fandom: Neil Gaimon's "Neverwhere" - features Vandemar and Croup.)
Asleep When You Should Be Awake (Fandom: Torchwood) ♥
Close (Fandom: Torchwood) ♥
Interlude (Fandom: Torchwood) ♥
Duende (Fandom: Patrick OBrian - Master and Commander series) (except I don't think I've finished reading this one, yet.) ♥♥
In the House of Dust (Fandom: Gilgamesh) ♥♥♥
Legend (Fandom: Naomi Novik - Temeraire series) ♥
The Rose-Bandit At Blandings by mine own [livejournal.com profile] peak_in_darien (Fandom: PG Wodehouse - Blandings Castle) ♥♥♥

I think I'll try to make this just a weekly roundup list, because I can't deal with doing this every day, and I certainly can't deal with writing reviews.  My highly subjective rating of hearts, on a one to five scale, is going to be affected by things like length of story and whether I know anything about the fandom or like the characters.  The writing on all of these stories has been top quality, regardless of if I gave it no hearts at all.