The Snowflake Challenge, Day 4

[scripsi]

Day 4

In your own space, create a fannish wishlist. No limits on size or type of fanwork; just tell us what you’d like to see. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. And if you grant a wish, do the same thing!

•I’m always happy when someone comments on my fics, so if any of my fandoms (I’m hopelessly multi-fannish) tickle your interests, I’d love to receive one. My fics can be found here.

•If not, go and give someone else’s fic a comment.

•I always enjoy new friends, so take a peek at my interests and see if you think we would enjoy each other’s company.

•Rec me your favourite book. I read a lot and always enjoy finding new reading material. I read pretty much everything except the Romance genre.

Comments

[summerstorm]

What are you in the mood for, books-wise? I mostly read contemporary YA, but based on your fandoms on ao3 (most of which I'm familiar with in the sense of 'yeah, I've heard of it and it's not my thing'), I think our tastes would overlap more in something like The Montmaray Journals by Michelle Cooper or Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis, if you haven't read either of those. The entire Oxford Time Travel Universe is great.

[scripsi]

I'm pretty much an omni-vore when it comes to reading. :)I haven't read the books you recced, though. Thank you!

[alexseanchai]

Favorite book? In the singular? Surely you joke!

Recently I really enjoyed The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin.

[scripsi]

I admit- it was a bad choice of words. :D

Thank you- I haven't read that one!

[sixbeforelunch]

My favorite book is a romance, but not a Romance Novel^TM so hopefully you won't mind. It's called The Blue Castle by L.M. Mongomery, and it's a lovely realistic fairy-tale story about a woman's escape from her abusive family. I love it madly, and suggest it to everyone.

[scripsi]

Not at all- I like romance in novels, I just don't like Romance Novels. :D And funnily enough I read The Blue Castle for the first time just a few weeks ago. And yes, I loved it. Wish I had read it sooner.

[siberian_skys]

I've been in non-fiction mode lately. I think it's one of the best things I've ever read.

Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury.

[scripsi]

Thank you for the tip!

[jadesfire]

If you haven't already read Rivers of London, that's always top of my list. Not only for the novels, but because there's a whole world of novellas and comics to go with it. Also, the audiobook narrator is so good that he's now the 'official' voice that even the author hears, which I think is kind of awesome.

Like you I have COMMENT MOAR on my wishlist, so I'm interspersing that with Snowflake requests. Which is an excellent way to pass an evening :)

[scripsi]

I've not read any of those, so thank you!

[flo_nelja]

Have you already read "Master and Margarita" by Bulgakov? Clearly one of my favorite books.

[scripsi]

No I haven't. Thank you for the tip!

[lilalanor]

I'm a YA Reader so this is fairly heavily YA but I've recently loved Code Name Verity/Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein, The Great Library series by Rachel Caine, The Wrath & The Dawn series and also The Girl From Everywhere.

[scripsi]

Thank you! These are all new to me!

[vaysh]

I looked at your profile and your AO3 page, and we do share some interests (not Dr Who, unfortunately), like a love for angsty and dark!fic. *friended* :) I am German and live in Berlin.

As for books recs: Fanfiction aside, my favourite books this year were Jane Gardam's Old Filth and the two sequels.

[scripsi]

Welcome! And I haven't read that one, so thank you!

[independence1776]

How are you with nonfiction? I have a couple to rec if you're in the mood.

[scripsi]

I read that too. :)

[marginaliana]

My Book rec: The Gone Away World. It's clever and funny and fascinating sci fi.

[scripsi]

Thank you! I haven't read that one!

[ardyforshort]

I just left this list with analise010 so figures I can leave it with you too:

Book recs:

City of Strife by Claudie Arseneault is urban fantasy with a great mix of characters of different skin colours, genders, and sexual orientations.

Fourth World by Lyssa Chiavari is sci-fi aimed at young adult with a demisexual protagonist of Mexican/Hispanic background and one character who‘s explicitly asexual.

Unburied Fables is a lovely collection of fairytale reworking by asexual- and romantic-spectrum authors.

Death by SIlver and A Death at the Dionysus Club are urban fantasy set in the 19th century with a gay male couple at the centre. My favourite thing in it is how they essentially treat magic as a scientific subject of study, I just think it’s really clever in how the magic system works. It makes SENSE in a way that magic seldom does in books. It‘s a bit like Holmes and Watson with added magic and queer romance. No explicit sex happens onscreen but the second book revolves around a secret gay nightclub.

[scripsi]

Thank you! All new to me!

Wish granted!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Some of my favorite books include:

* The Color of Distance

* A Feral Darkness

* the Sime-Gen series

* the Young Wizards series

* If you enjoy crowdfunding and/or reading in blogs, I highly recommend the works of dialecticdreamer, siliconshaman, bairnsidhe, and alexseanchai.

Re: Wish granted!

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Thank you! All new to me!

[em_kellesvig]

My favorite books lately are by Martha Wells. Her latest is All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries. She just finished her series, Books of the Raksura: Cloud Roads, Serpent Sea, Siren Depths, The Edge of Worlds, and Harbors of the Sun. Good fun in all these books.

[scripsi]

Thank you! I haven't read anything by her.

[silveradept]

If you can find a copy, Villains By Necessity is a great read for people who like their fantasy troops formed squarely on their heads.

[scripsi]

Thank you

[sunlit_stone]

I hardly have just one favourite book!

But, hmm. I was going to recommend The Warrior's Apprentice, but checking your profile I see you've already got Bujold...what about The Queen's Thief series, by Megan Whalen Turner? A lot of people like both (and I've seen quite a few comparisons of one of its main characters, Gen, with Miles); it starts with The Thief.

Also, uh, if you do decide to check it out, be very careful with googling and so forth, because it's very hard to talk about anything past book one without major spoilers.

[scripsi]

I've read Everything by Bujold, yes, but not The Queen's Thief. Thank you!

[tropicsbear]

For book recs: The Surgeon and And Then There Were None :D Hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

[scripsi]

I've read Then There Was None several times, but never The Surgeon. Thank you!

Book rec

[dreamwriters]

I threw this book series on my wishlist because I want more fans in it but I highly recommend Jim C. Hines's Magic Ex Libris series especially if you read sci-fi and fantasy.

Re: Book rec

[scripsi]

I haven't read that one. Thank you!

[tarlanx]

I really enjoyed World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks. It reads like a post-war documentary. It's very cheap to buy on Amazon at the moment too!

[scripsi]

Thank you!

[tptigger]

Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica by James A Owen (Starts with here there be dragons)
Also +1 for Young Wizards, and definitely go for the NMEs if you're buying them

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Thank you- they are all new to me!

[mierke]

I just finished Numbercaste, which was incredibly intriguing and I so want more people to have read it.

[scripsi]

Thank you! New to me!

[mf_luder_xf]

Books: Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer, Proof by David Auburn, The Margarets by Sheri S Tepper.

If you like graphic novels: Nimona by Noelle Stevenson, Afterlife with Archie (1 volume so far), Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (1 volume so far), Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, Clean Room by Gail Simone

And I'm definitely going to read your Agent Carter fic - someone who wrote my OT3 of that show!

[scripsi]

Thank you! These are all new to me. And yes, I read graphic novels!

I hipe you will enjoy the fic!