Top five, part 2

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evelyn_b

Oh my, this is vast. I’m likely to forget someone important, but here goes:

1. Alice, Lewis Carroll's heroine. This was the first literary character I ever identified myself with.

2. Lord Peter Wimsey, Dorothy L.Sayers amateur sleuth

3. Delgado!Master. I have always loved bad guys and he is one of the best.

4. Miles Vorkosigan. The Most Annoying Hero Ever. Many thanks to Lois McMaster Bujold for inventing the hyperactive, brilliant git.

5. Gollum. I don’t think The Fellowship of the Rings would have been the classic it is today without him.

paynesgrey

I can’t give these books a specific order, but they are my top fives. I’ve also refrained from gushing over them- I will likely re-read any of these sooner or later and gush on a Wednesday post…

1. Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers.

2. Persuasion by Jane Austen.

3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.

4. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.

5. Faunen (The Faun) by Anna-Karin Palm. I’m sorry to say she isn’t translated to English, but can be read in German and French. As you are unlikely to know about this book I will gush a little. The book has three timelines, each written in very different styles. The first is about Amelia, a writer of romance novels in the late 19th century. One day she finds a faun in her living room who says he is very cross with her. The second is set in the Middle ages were Elinor meets a faun in the woods. And the third is the contemporary diary of a young Swedish woman living in London who gets obsessed by a painting in National Gallery of a faun. This one, actually, The death of Procris made by Piero di Cosimo.



velvetwhip

Difficult, as many of the things I have loved over the years are gone now (or I have lost the links). So these are mostly fics I have read the last few years.

1. Two Birds In A Cage by Daystar Searcher. A Doctor Who fic featuring Three and Sarah Jane. It’s a work in progress and I really hope it will be finished. It’s very dark and very good. IMO it would work as a dystopian SF in it’s own right. Check the warnings, though, there is both rape and torture in it.

2. As To A Portrait, Gently Drawn. A Harry Potter fic featuring Snape and Luna Lovegood, which is both sad and lovely.

3. In the Arms of the Father, which is my current favourite and written for me in The Rarepair Fest (I don’t know who wrote it yet. Penny Dreadful-fic with Sir Malcolm/Vanessa. Not incest, despite the title, but rated mature and contains some sex.

4. The Practice of Barrayaran Sex by Philomyta. I’m a big fan of Lois McMaster Bujold and this fic reads as missing scenes from Aral and Cordelia’s marriage and the time just before and after. Rated explicit, which the title may imply.

5. The Master and Mrs. Pond by Memory Dragon. I do so love the interaction between Delgado!Master and Amy. Rather PG.