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If you wanna read my fanfic, you gotta get with my fandom....
HELLO FRIENDS Yuletide is upon us (aka that one time Shana posts ever) and because it's probably better than refreshing everything impatiently waiting for the tagset to open... I decided it was time to PROMOTE!! THE SHIT!! I LIKE!! Because please read these things and write/request stuff from them and make my life.
I am. Going to attempt. To be brief. But if you want to hear more ask and I will WORD VOMIT AT YOU.
Let's start with the fandoms I nominated...
(All book links go to my bookstore since I work there obviously, which does ship within the US at least, but obviously they are also available at any indie bookstore or the library or anywhere else you get books.)
Feed by Mira Grant
My current FAVORITE. This is one of those books that just got me in the right place at the right time. It's about zombies, but plenty of people who aren't zombie fans still love it because it's really more about world building and politics and media and the responsibility to tell the truth.
Content Warnings: The big one is that uh. It's. Too Real. It takes place in a world filled with disease and government conspiracy and all sorts of precautions like not gathering in crowds over ten people and LOL that was not just how life was when it came out!! This book is ten years old!! Why is it still so relevant!! Also, there is some adopted sibling incest.
Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
This book is a frothy, sappy, delight. It's a ridiculously cute romance novel about a British prince and the son of the United States President. It's also the best depiction of diagnosed ADHD I've ever seen and of late stage bisexual realization. Every single character is a delight and it is TRAGIC that there doesn't seem to be a sequel coming. So you know. Fanfic time.
Content Warnings: I DON'T KNOW WHY SO MANY OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS ARE ABOUT ELECTIONS??? This book is mostly just a delight BUT it does take place in a 2020 with no plague and an extremely cool woman as president so like... it's either a great escape or a crushing reminder of what we don't have. YMMV.
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T J Klune
In some ways, this book is so familiar. A bunch of unusual magical children with an equally unusual guardian taking care of them. Filled with quirks and charm and each child being very special in their own way separate from what magic they may have. In other ways? IT'S GAY. GAY GAY GAY. THERE IS A GAY ROMANCE. Which definitely did not happen in the books I read as a kid that followed this trope. It's become a comfort read so fast and I only read it this year.
Anyway, that's the start of it. Gonna possibly hit more as I feel like it. If there's one thing that it's easy to get me talking about, it's books.
I am. Going to attempt. To be brief. But if you want to hear more ask and I will WORD VOMIT AT YOU.
Let's start with the fandoms I nominated...
(All book links go to my bookstore since I work there obviously, which does ship within the US at least, but obviously they are also available at any indie bookstore or the library or anywhere else you get books.)
My current FAVORITE. This is one of those books that just got me in the right place at the right time. It's about zombies, but plenty of people who aren't zombie fans still love it because it's really more about world building and politics and media and the responsibility to tell the truth.
Content Warnings: The big one is that uh. It's. Too Real. It takes place in a world filled with disease and government conspiracy and all sorts of precautions like not gathering in crowds over ten people and LOL that was not just how life was when it came out!! This book is ten years old!! Why is it still so relevant!! Also, there is some adopted sibling incest.
This book is a frothy, sappy, delight. It's a ridiculously cute romance novel about a British prince and the son of the United States President. It's also the best depiction of diagnosed ADHD I've ever seen and of late stage bisexual realization. Every single character is a delight and it is TRAGIC that there doesn't seem to be a sequel coming. So you know. Fanfic time.
Content Warnings: I DON'T KNOW WHY SO MANY OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS ARE ABOUT ELECTIONS??? This book is mostly just a delight BUT it does take place in a 2020 with no plague and an extremely cool woman as president so like... it's either a great escape or a crushing reminder of what we don't have. YMMV.
In some ways, this book is so familiar. A bunch of unusual magical children with an equally unusual guardian taking care of them. Filled with quirks and charm and each child being very special in their own way separate from what magic they may have. In other ways? IT'S GAY. GAY GAY GAY. THERE IS A GAY ROMANCE. Which definitely did not happen in the books I read as a kid that followed this trope. It's become a comfort read so fast and I only read it this year.
Anyway, that's the start of it. Gonna possibly hit more as I feel like it. If there's one thing that it's easy to get me talking about, it's books.