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rj_anderson'Cos there be some good reading (and viewing) out there at the moment...
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penwiper26 has started a post-Locked Rooms (i.e. spoilery) Holmes/Russell/Jossverse fic which is absolutely wonderful, not least because the narration actually sounds like Russell, and Holmes is altogether Himself. I can also attest that the fic works even if, like me, you know hardly anything about the Jossverse, and find vampires in general tedious. (I should also mention, while I'm on the subject, that jblum and kateorman's Eighth Doctor BBC novel Vampire Science is dead brilliant and does a lovely job of skewering all those silly Anne Rice-type notions about vampires being Teh Sexx0rs. If you chance to come across a copy, grab it.)
And speaking of Doctor Who,doyle_sb4 has made a hilarious fanvid to Weird Al Yankovic's "Your Horoscope For Today", with the most splendid comedic timing. Spoilers for all New Who episodes.
Veering out of fannish territory for the moment, I am addicted to A Standard Christian, a novel being published in blog form, with new chapters on a daily basis. It's real and uncompromising and populated with well-drawn characters, and far from the sanitized, tediously preachy drek that typically passes for "Christian fiction". The heroine's struggles and doubts, and her discoveries about life in the real world after attending a wacked-out fundamentalist Bible college, are fairly and honestly handled, and the author avoids the usual pitfall of making all the professing Christian characters virtuous (or villainous) and all the non-Christian characters villainous (or virtuous). In short, it's a lot like real life. And today's installment made me cry.
Finally, am on the lookout for really good House gen or (non-smutty) hetfic. Recs welcomed.
penwiper26 has started a post-Locked Rooms (i.e. spoilery) Holmes/Russell/Jossverse fic which is absolutely wonderful, not least because the narration actually sounds like Russell, and Holmes is altogether Himself. I can also attest that the fic works even if, like me, you know hardly anything about the Jossverse, and find vampires in general tedious. (I should also mention, while I'm on the subject, that jblum and kateorman's Eighth Doctor BBC novel Vampire Science is dead brilliant and does a lovely job of skewering all those silly Anne Rice-type notions about vampires being Teh Sexx0rs. If you chance to come across a copy, grab it.)And speaking of Doctor Who,
doyle_sb4 has made a hilarious fanvid to Weird Al Yankovic's "Your Horoscope For Today", with the most splendid comedic timing. Spoilers for all New Who episodes.Veering out of fannish territory for the moment, I am addicted to A Standard Christian, a novel being published in blog form, with new chapters on a daily basis. It's real and uncompromising and populated with well-drawn characters, and far from the sanitized, tediously preachy drek that typically passes for "Christian fiction". The heroine's struggles and doubts, and her discoveries about life in the real world after attending a wacked-out fundamentalist Bible college, are fairly and honestly handled, and the author avoids the usual pitfall of making all the professing Christian characters virtuous (or villainous) and all the non-Christian characters villainous (or virtuous). In short, it's a lot like real life. And today's installment made me cry.
Finally, am on the lookout for really good House gen or (non-smutty) hetfic. Recs welcomed.
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Date: 2005-07-06 06:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-06 06:54 pm (UTC)As for House fic, I haven't come across much gen or hetfic; there are some good writers in the fandom, but they're mostly slashers who hit my smut sunblindness quotient. I'll let you know if I see anything.
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Date: 2005-07-07 12:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-07 01:51 am (UTC)*admires your icon*
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Date: 2005-07-07 02:21 am (UTC)[The icon's great, isn't it? It's by
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Date: 2005-07-07 08:13 pm (UTC)Also, do you know when Dr. Who is playing on Canadian television in Ontario? I live in Michigan and can get a Canadian channel (sorry, don't remember which one) on cable, and after having seen the episode about the end of the world while flying back from Germany, I think I'd like to see some more.
Thanks, bookaholic!
Date: 2005-07-07 11:29 pm (UTC)Jeri (Grace)
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Date: 2005-07-12 02:44 pm (UTC)CBC (http://www.cbc.ca/doctorwho/) was showing the series on Tuesday nights for the first run -- now they're showing the repeats Sunday nights at 7 p.m. according to their website. If that's the channel you get, happy viewing!
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Date: 2005-07-12 08:14 pm (UTC)