[how do you like your blueeyed boy / Mister Death]

The trouble with the Kindle is (she says, looking up from its screen with difficulty) - the trouble with the Kindle is, well, aside from the fact that the right-hand button seems to use the same muscles that handwriting and typing (and playing iPod solitare but we don't talk about that) stress out in my arm, which makes for an unfortunate choice between reading and work - aside from that, the trouble with the Kindle is it makes it so easy to read.

I know, what the hell is wrong with it being easy to read, but I remind you that I am theoretically trying to finish a thesis over here, you know. It doesn't help to have dozens of excellent books right there at my fingertips in a tiny little slimline volume I can fit in any bag no matter how full it is. (It's also rather dangerous to be able to download fic to it, as I get a little twitchy about who might be looking over my shoulder on the bus.)

Anyways, I have been reading so many good books in the last couple of weeks - well, in between the bouts of old Nancy Drews and swings of novel-length fics in fandoms I don't even follow, wtf - that I thought it was time to write about a few of them before I forgot them all.

Note: this has extreme spoilers for the Shocking Plot Twist of the book, as well as almost-negligible spoilers for Elizabeth Kostova's The Swan Thieves. If you like books I read, you should go read this one and then come back and see what I have to say about it. You have been warned. ( Gentlemen and Players, by Joanne Harris )

Note: this also has spoilers for a couple of the not-so-shocking plot twists of this book. I read this one for the world, not the plot, so if you like that you might be willing to read the spoilers first and then see whether you want to read the book. ( A Discovery of Witches, by Deborah Harkness )

( The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield )

( Juliet, by Anne Fortier )

( The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, by Aimee Bender )

Currently reading: Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen. So far so good, though a) I am only 9% of the way into it and b) I have a sneaking feeling I've read it before.

Apparently I deleted my books icons! I must get a new one or two. Possibly one with River's diary. Or, you know, not.

(Of course, the things I haven't been reading are the eight zillion tabs I have open, but, you know. Something's gotta give.)

[also: ladies are hot!]

So I can close one of those zillions of tabs: femslash11 / femslash11 is doing the pre-ficathon polling! It is here on LJ (note there's a Part Two linked at the bottom) and here on DW. Do vote, even if you only plan to read! I personally would be greatly appreciative were you to vote for any or all of Doctor Who ("new" who), DCU Batverse, and/or The Good Wife. :D? :D? :D!

Thaaaaank you. Yay femslash!