Apr. 30th, 2015

semperfiona: (dragon)
Yesterday, while poking about AO3 reading new fic, I found one that really felt like a message from the universe.

Title: Make Me a Headline (I Want to Be That Bold)
Author: Anonymous for now (part of the anonymous Dracotops_Harry fest)
Word Count: 31K
Chapters: 6

Later chapters--probably starting around chapter 3--find Draco using his fear of [some action] as an indicator that he should do that exact thing. And what do you know, that is exactly what I am feeling led to do as well. Afraid to open up and be vulnerable in places like here? Time to do that thing. Afraid to go to the EarthFire Beltane ritual on Saturday? Guess what.

Also, back on the fic rec part of this post, it's a lovely piece of writing with one of my favorite tropes: a rekindled romance after many years of separation where both are independently yearning for each other. [livejournal.com profile] mac_arthur_park will know why that is. *blows kisses in the direction of North Carolina* Countdown = EIGHT!

I also enjoyed the friendship portrayed between Draco, Blaise and Pansy.
semperfiona: Books on a table superimposed with "There is no frigate like a book" (books)
Still using the star system referenced last month.

  1. *Honor's Knight, Rachel Bach

  2. *Heaven's Queen, Rachel Bach

  3. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley (reread)

  4. Cast in Shadow, *Michelle Sagara

  5. *Signal to Noise, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
    Actual paper book, oh my.

  6. Burndive, *Karin Lowachee
    This was one of the worst ebook conversions I've seen in a long time. Chock full of OCR errors like something from bit-torrent or worse. And I got it from the library. Grrrr.
    The story itself was good--like Eponine said, not as good as the first one but definitely enjoyable and carried the tale forward. But god was it excruciating to read with all the errors.

  7. City of Heavenly Fire, Cassandra Clare

  8. *The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin
    This book is highly acclaimed, but it didn't really grab me.

  9. *Huntress, Malinda Lo

  10. Acceptance, Jeff VanderMeer
    Another acclaimed book that didn't really work for me. I read all three of this trilogy, but they really never seemed to go anywhere. It was a Southern Gothic Environmental Horror book but never revealed what the horror actually was. That's probably the point, but I found it disappointing.

  11. *Half-Resurrection Blues, Daniel Jose Older

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