Jan. 2nd, 2011

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Does anyone know of a way to see a list of fic you've left kudos on? I've been leaving them rather indiscriminately, and I was thinking about pulling together a belated Yuletide recs post, but now I realize I can't figure out which fic I liked. I know, should have bookmarked, but when the site was running so slow I counted myself lucky if I could even get the kudos to go through. So. Any ideas?
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After the Giant Fashion Book, Period Piece is probably the book I was most excited to get from my gift card haul. I'm not sure who first brought the book to my attention, though I suspect it was probably [personal profile] jonquil, but I've been wanting to read it for a long while. Now that I have, I can't get the authorial voice out of my head.

This is not a bad thing! The authorial voice is delightful: Gwen Raverat is wry and funny and wonderful to read. I loved her reminiscences of her childhood in Cambridge, the descriptions of the houses and people she knew, and way she gently poked fun at the silliness and self-importance of Victorian society. The book was full of throwaway bits of humor that made me laugh much more than you'd expect them to-- one line, about fishing seven top-hats out of the river in a single day, still makes me giggle when I think about it.

For anyone interested in the Victorians, this is highly recommended. I love Raverat's perspective-- someone who saw the tail-end of the Victorians and also lived through the start of the modern era, looking back with fondness and wit.

AtLA fic!

Jan. 2nd, 2011 06:15 pm
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Almost forgot: I wrote a bit of Avatar: the Last Airbender fic for a Yuletider who got an unfinished story.

plant your feet, tell the truth, hope for the best, Toph gen. "There were a lot of things Toph liked about being the most powerful earthbender in the world."

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