tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-28:938997Beyond the RoundelsSet the fleet sailing...thisbluespirit2020-12-31T21:13:28Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-28:938997:991475Yuletide recs Pt12020-12-31T21:13:28Z2020-12-31T21:13:28Zpublic12Forgive yet another post today, but I had collected enough Yule-recs so far to make a post before reveals tomorrow.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://thisbluespirit.dreamwidth.org/991475.html#cutid1">14 recs in Chalet School, Dungeons & Dragons, Enemy at the Door, Georgette Heyer, Ghosts, The Good Place, Pushing Daisies, Sapphire & Steel, and A Traveller in Time</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=thisbluespirit&ditemid=991475" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-28:938997:966509Belated Yule-recs2020-04-28T17:03:27Z2020-04-28T17:03:27Zpublic17I realised that I never did any <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png' alt='[community profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/'><b>yuletide</b></a></span> recs this year, because I felt too unwell and also I never went back for a proper second go-round. So, I thought I would get on and at least rec the handful I collected, instead of moaning at the internet.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://thisbluespirit.dreamwidth.org/966509.html#cutid1">12 recs in The Box of Delights, Cadfael, The Dean's Watch, Georgette Heyer, Jonathan Creek, Matilda, Sapphire & Steel & UK Cities</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=thisbluespirit&ditemid=966509" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-28:938997:866716Yuletide Recs 2018 (Part One)2018-12-31T10:53:13Z2018-12-31T10:53:13Zpublic8I'm still only making an erratic first pass through the collection (mostly alphabetical, but sometimes random & not necessarily reading all the fic in one fandom at a time), but here's an initial recs post before reveals are upon us already:<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://thisbluespirit.dreamwidth.org/866716.html#cutid1">22 recs in The Avengers, Bridgerton series, Cadfael, Fire & Hemlock, Great British Bake-Off, Georgette Heyer, Historical RPF, Jonathan Creek, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, The Lion in Winter, Much Ado About Nothing, North & South, The Pallisers, Press Gang, Pushing Daisies, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), Shirley, Which Witch? & Willow</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=thisbluespirit&ditemid=866716" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-28:938997:801991Yuletide 2017 Recs (3)2018-03-23T17:25:37Z2018-03-23T17:25:37Zpublic11(Another post I had prepared earlier. This has totally been my Blue Peter week.)<br /><br />Part the Third and last:<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://thisbluespirit.dreamwidth.org/801991.html#cutid1">10 recs in Chalion, Pushing Daisies, Sorcerer to the Crown, The Star of Kazan, Timeless, The Truman Show, Venetia & While You Were Sleeping</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=thisbluespirit&ditemid=801991" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-28:938997:728845What I'm Reading Wednesday2017-06-28T17:29:58Z2017-06-28T17:29:58Zpublic23I'm still not recovered from last week, although probably some part of that was my fault for trying to make use of that family history offer over the weekend, but there we go. I'll get there, I suppose.<br /><br />In the meantime, here's a post.<br /><br /><b>What I've just finished reading</b><br /><br />I have read the next two in the Kate Shackleton mystery series by Frances Brody. I still don't know quite what to make of them - I'm enjoying them, I can read them and yet... I don't know.<br /><br />I also went to the library and got some Regencies to try and get me back reading again a little better, which worked until I was undone by the Thing last week. They were slight, but no Carolyns, at any rate. (Two more MC Beatons, but nothing that reached the ridiculous/sinister heights of the Mannerling idea.)<br /><br />However, then I got <i>Snowdrift</i>, the reissued collection of Georgette Heyer's short story collection, <i>Pistols For Two</i>, with three rediscovered stories in it! I mean, her short stories aren't anything to her novels, but this was the most exciting thing reading-wise that has happened to me since I was ill, I think. They were slight, but it was very lovely to have new Heyer words for the first time in probably twenty years. <br /><br />And then I randomly found on a charity book stall in my supermarket, a weird little teen book I used to have a fascination with back in the 90s, <i>The Bewitching of Alison Allbright</i> by Alan Davidson. It is still a very odd little book, not quite like anything else I can think of & enjoyable to have a revisit, even if not at anywhere near the same intensity as back then. It's not a fantasy - the 'bewitching' involves no magic, just the glamour of riches hiding some sinister/obsessive intentions.<br /><br /><br /><b>What I'm Reading Now</b><br /><br />Nothing, really; I need to get a bit better again. <i>HMS Surprise</i> needs more brain than I have, and I've a few other things started and abandoned, so mostly, nothing and occasionally re-reading some of the older stories in <i>Snowdrift</i>. (I like my new copy better than the old one, which is nice, because it's not always the case.)<br /><br />I am still taking (family history-related) notes from <i>London in the 19th Century</i> by Jerry White.<br /><br /><br /><b>What I'm Reading Next</b><br /><br />Something, I hope. My TBR pile is far larger than my actual reading ability, but you've got to have optimism and hope and ambition, right?<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=thisbluespirit&ditemid=728845" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-28:938997:718189Yuletide 2016 Recs (Part III)2017-05-06T20:01:55Z2017-05-06T20:15:27Zpublic11(My friends came, had a nice time, liked each other, and went. I am now vv tired and also have not yet watched DW, because vv tired so catching up must wait, but in the meantime, one of two posts I made earlier; in this case my final Yuletide recs post. <3)<br /><br /><br /><br />Somewhat belated, but better late than never, as they say. <br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://thisbluespirit.dreamwidth.org/718189.html#cutid1">19 recs in Discworld, Georgette Heyer, Howl's Moving Castle, Hundred & One Dalmatians, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, King Lear, The Librarians, North & South, Northanger Abbey, Owl Service, Poldark, Timeless & Victoria</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=thisbluespirit&ditemid=718189" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-28:938997:452111Talking Meme #22014-11-29T20:58:06Z2014-11-29T21:01:51Zpublic39(I still have space for more topics if anyone hasn't left me one yet! The <a href="http://lost-spook.livejournal.com/428005.html">original post is here</a> should you wish to.)<br /><br /><span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?user=ramasi'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?user=ramasi'><b>ramasi</b></a></span> requested: <i>Book-to-movie (or tv) adaptations you like? (Or didn't like, if you feel like ranting)</i>.<br /><br />My first thought was that this was a very nice question, the second that this could be a very long post if I'm not careful. So I made myself choose 5 favourites, setting myself a rough guideline for inclusion - something along the lines of "it needs to be something I've watched at least twice and should be where I read the book first". (And then promptly broke that rule with my first choice, as you do.) (The pics in this post, btw, are my screencaps, excepting those for the first two, which I stole from Google.) <br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://thisbluespirit.dreamwidth.org/452111.html#cutid1">Book to Screen adaptations</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=thisbluespirit&ditemid=452111" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-28:938997:349217Fic Corner: My Fic & Recs2013-10-03T19:53:30Z2013-10-03T19:53:30Zpublic7Here's the fic I wrote for <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://fic-corner.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png' alt='[community profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://fic-corner.dreamwidth.org/'><b>fic_corner</b></a></span>. I was waiting to post it because I started finally typing up the original treat I was going to write for someone, but it is still not quite working out. That's about two months of it not quite working out now, so I shall just have to bury it until one day it resurrects itself as something (as stories often do) - and get on and post my fics and some recs for very shiny fics from the collection:<br /><br />I defaulted early on, but I wrote two treats, one in the short treat collection, one in the main:<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://thisbluespirit.dreamwidth.org/349217.html#cutid1">Two fics in Enid Blyton (Adventure Series) and Journey To The River Sea</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />And now, recs! I have to say, from what I have seen, it looks as though there is a very high percentage of exceptional fic, so I'd recommend poking around to see what childhood favourites you might find in the 100+ fandoms. However, here is a selection from those I know and read (mostly in the first half of the alphabet, because I'm incurably alphabetical and don't have that much reading stamina).<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___2" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://thisbluespirit.dreamwidth.org/349217.html#cutid2">Recs at Fic Corner</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___2" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=thisbluespirit&ditemid=349217" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-28:938997:333254Fic Exchange!2013-07-08T11:46:22Z2013-07-08T12:07:40Zpublic4It's like someone made a fic exchange especially for me (and I probably won't even be able to play). But I know lots of you like plenty of YA/children's books, so go here and find out more - and have some fun brainstorming over the nominations!<br /><br /><a href="http://fic_corner.dreamwidth.org"><img src="http://www.marblebun.com/Headers/ficcornersm.png" alt="alt" txt="Exchange at Fic Corner Banner"></a><br /><br />A Kids' and YA Book Fic Exchange<br /><br />The banner goes to the Dreamwidth side, but it's on LJ, too: <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://fic-corner.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='16' height='16'/></a><a href='http://fic-corner.livejournal.com/'><b>fic_corner</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=thisbluespirit&ditemid=333254" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-28:938997:331881Upcoming fic exchange2013-06-30T09:12:52Z2013-06-30T09:13:43Zpublic6<span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?user=hhertzof'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?user=hhertzof'><b>hhertzof</b></a></span> is planning a children's/YA lit fic exchange, and you can find out more and vote in the name poll <a href="http://evil-plotbunny.dreamwidth.org/26735.html">here</a>. I think it's probably of interest to quite a few of you - every and any child/YA lit is probably going to be eligible.<br /><br />(So, yes, Diana Wynne Jones, Chalet School, Enid Blyton, picture books, modern YA epics, time-honoured classics, anything).<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=thisbluespirit&ditemid=331881" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments