A Fan's Playground

Back in the days after I'd started keeping a list of all the books I read each year but BEFORE I started posting reviews of them, I kept desultory personal notes (ranging from a single word to quite a few paragraphs) on some of the books. And I always vaguely forget I have, and forget where exactly to find them, and I'd like to just have them on my dw so they're FINDABLE again for me. And also some of you might find these interesting/amusing? (N.B. some of these contain what I would now classify as INCORRECT OPINIONS.)

SO HERE'S THREE YEARS' WORTH OF BOOKS IN ONE POST, OKAY GO.

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Sorcery & Cecelia, or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: being the correspondence of two Young Ladies of Quality regarding various Magical Scandals in London and the Country, by Patricia C Wrede & Caroline Stevermer

This is a comforting old reread. An epistolary novel set in the regency period WITH MAGIC, the correspondence being between two young women who are cousins and best friends. And basically it is a novel about HIJINKS and DOING THINGS THAT NEED DOING and LADIES BEING AWESOME and LADIES BEING FRIENDS WITH LADIES. ( Read more... )