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.

[alexseanchai]

Favorite book? In the singular? Surely you joke!

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

[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.

[scripsi]

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

Thank you- I haven't read that one!

[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!

[scripsi]

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

[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 :)

[flo_nelja]

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

[vaysh]

That sounds very intriguing. :)

[sixbeforelunch]

That is funny. Okay then, one of my other favorite novels is called The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgeson Burnett (to continue the theme of adult novels by authors better known for their children's books *g*). It can be hard to track down, but it's on Gutenberg here. The first part is a similarly fairtytaleish romance, but the second part is...almost impossible to describe. It's got elements of psychological horror, but also some romance and toward the end there are some neat bits of female friendship.

Content notes for gaslighting, and period-typical racism.

[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.

[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!

[scripsi]

I love Burnett, but I've only read her children's books. Gutenberg is fine- I read most of my books on Kindle nowadays, so I have already downloade the book. Thank you for the tip!

[scripsi]

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

[summerstorm]

Montmaray is basically YA, just historical. Way lighter than the Connie Willis. But since you said omnivore, here are some books that have made an impression on me:

Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell (non-fiction)
both of Jenny Lawson's books (I also have the coloring book, but it's different from the mental health-heavy, incredibly fucking hilarious essay collections she has)
this last year I read two books I loved, both YA: Becky Albertalli's The Upside of Unrequited (which is vaguely connected to Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda, though I haven't read that yet), and Georgia Peaces & Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown (which is f/f and the love interest is out of my dreams, basically).

[alexseanchai]

lol accurate

Hope you enjoy!

[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.

[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.

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.

[independence1776]

The fiction rec: anything by Diane Duane. Her books, YA and not, can be found as DRM-free ebooks on her site: https://ebooksdirect.dianeduane.com/. If you read the Young Wizards series, go for the New Millennium Editions because she updated and edited them.

Nonfiction:

"The End of Night" by Paul Bogard. It's about light pollution and how it's affecting the world.

"Becoming Odyssa" by Jennifer Pharr Davis, about her thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail.