Sugardy Candy

From bibliogramma: "100 MUST-READ SCI-FI FANTASY NOVELS BY FEMALE AUTHORS" by Nikki Steele. Interesting list, I guess.

Bolded the ones read, commented on a few. I've read about a quarter of the list, which sounds about right, as my taste in sci-fic/fantasy runs mostly to the lighthearted.

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*side-eyes*: They missed out The Changeover by Margaret Mahy. And The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper.

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Have dominion, Queen Helen, Magician's Nephew, Narnia, by edenfalling

God Save the Queen, RPF, Captain America et al, by copperbadge

Only Begotten and sequel, Whosoever Believeth, Lucifer/Damian crossover, and something like, canon is its own warning?, by astolat

It always cracks me up inside:

Whenever my other boss wants to tell me that a student has cancelled a class, he says, "Luce-san, _______-san CANNOT come tomorrow," and then makes the Ultraman gesture (crossed forearms in front of his face).

(I just reply, "Okay.")

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There's a Dreamwidth meme, where my flist reading list is posting day by day. To save myself the hassle, here's mine for all 21 days.

( The entire meme, just for the hell of it )

The World Book Day meme, for which I'm desperately late, but still...

The book I am reading:
Jewellery of Tibet and the Himalayas and 周汝昌传 [aka Biography of Zhou Ruchang].

The book I am writing:
It's not a book.

The book I love most:
The physical book or the work itself? If the former, it's got to be my Shorter OED for being so lovely (if so damnably heavy, both of them) to touch (smooooth, thiiin, delicate onion-skin paper) and sigh over (I don't know so many of these words!) and to read; coming close is my compact volume of 唐诗三百首 [Three hundred Tang poems] for being small enough to squeeze into the mess that is my table and also, it's extremely readable.

Also my ebook device.

If the latter, too many to name.

The last book I received as a gift:
Um... a friend gave me some cast-off textbooks once?

Sadly, I've never really received a book/books as a gift. Family and friends feel that it is unhealthy to encourage me in my sins. However, I was once given a book on Qin Shih-huang as a prize for taking part in an amateur historical production in school. Well, it was given to the entire cast, but the others rejected it in horror because it was a book, so I got it by default. Nyah nyah.

The last book I gave as a gift:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to my student.

The nearest book on my desk:
Other than 唐诗三百首?
楚辞 by 屈原 (aka the guy who has rice dumplings thrown in the river every fifth of fifth in his honour, so goes folklore. Famous for 离骚)

You can tell I don't own many Chinese books by the way I keep them close.

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From crack_van: Graduate Vulcan for Fun and Profit, general, Star Trek reboot, by lazulisong

Living Lore, summary: London dreams of Sherlock Holmes, by Silver Pard.

Alien Abduction Blues, Mycroft, also by Silver Pard.

Never Leave a Trace 1/3, 2/3, 3/3, Elizabeth/Neal/Peter, AU, White Collar, by sam_storyteller

Via crack_van: The Carriage Held But Just Ourselves and Immortality, Torchwood/Discworld crossover, by _seven_crows

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The Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors (poets included) who have always influenced you and will always stick with you. List the first 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes, and they don't have to be listed ...in order of relevance to you. Tag at least 15 friends, including me, because I'm interested in seeing what authors my friends chose.

1) Wu Cheng-en
2) Cao Xueqin
3) Whoever wrote The Investiture of the Gods
4) Shakespeare
5) Poets of 300 Tang poems
6) Margaret Mahy
7) Elizabeth Peters aka Barabara Michaels
8) Jonathan Gash
9) Louise Erdrich
10) Gu Long
11) Jan Morris
12) Georgette Heyer
13) Terry Prachett
14) P.G. Wodehouse

*draws a blank*

15) ______

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Migrained.

1. At least it finally went away. I didn't start getting migraines until a few years ago, and it usually needs an initial hefty dose of painkiller if I see it coming (literally so; flashing lights whee!). Then it's just like being underwater, wearing a helmet that's too small with goggles that goddamn *sparkle*. (How much do I hate flashing icons? Lots.)

2. Just as well I'd planned to watch Deathly Hallows on Saturday.

Recced by crack_van: Two Worlds, Will/Bran, long fic, angsty, The Dark is Rising, by rhymer23.

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From aishuu:

( the five words meme )