new year new list. i drive to the improv theatre a lot (A. LOT.) right now, so 1.) yay gas being back down to 2004 prices and 2.) hooray it means i get to listen to a lot of books. i very nearly got to 60 total books this year and think i can probably do bettr this year, so without further ado...

audio
1.) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John leCarre
2.) How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying by Carol Leifer
3.) The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
4.) The Dark Horse by Craig Johnson
5.) The Sweet Potato Queens Book of Love by Jill Conner Browne
6.) A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
7.) The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
8.) Grace (Eventually) by Anne Lamott
9.) Junkyard Dogs by Craig Johnson
10.) Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom
11.) Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
12.) The Nerdist Way by Chris Hardwick
13.) Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
14.) Size 14 Is Not Fat Either by Meg Cabot
15.) Big Boned by Meg Cabot
16.) Size 12 and Ready to Rock by Meg Cabot
17.) Saturday Night Widows by Becky Aikman
18.) Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
19.) Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
20.) The Bonfire: The Seige and Burning of Atlanta by Marc Wortman
21.) Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson
22.) Star Island by Carl Hiaasen
23.) The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
24.) The Next Best Thing by Jennifer Weiner
25.) Modern Lovers by Emma Straub
26.) The Receptionist: An Education at the New Yorker by Janet Groff
27.) Escape from Cubicle Nation by Pamela Slim
28.) In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larsen
29.) Blood, Bones, and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
30.) The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
31.) Who Do You Love by Jennifer Weiner
32.) Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
33.) Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
34.) Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
35.) Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
36.) O, Pioneers by Willa Cather
37.) Notes from A Small Island by Bill Bryson
38.) Little House on The Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
39.) On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
40.) By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
41.) The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
42.) Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
43.) These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
44.) These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder*
45.) The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
46.) Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
47.) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
48.) A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
49.) The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
50.) The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure

paper and ink
1.) Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself by Judy Blume
2.) The Opposite of Everyone by Joshilyn Jackson
3.) Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by JK Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne
4.) The Bride Wore Size 12 by Meg Cabot
5.) Plan B by Jonathan Tropper
6.) A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
7.) Does This Church Make Me Look Fat by Rhoda Janzen
8.) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling
9.) Anne of Windy Poplars by L. M. Mongtomery
10.) Pioneer Girl the Annotated Autobiography by Laura Ingalls Wilder

*this is not a typo. i literally finished listening to this and put the first cd right back in. i had the best time re-reading these books as an adult and picking up on things that i hadn't registered as a child. also this is the one about Laura and Almanzo courting and i just loved it.

Just stopping by to say hello. I have been missing lj recently and going back and reading some of my old posts and omg at all the fic/drabbles I used to write back in the day. Damn, I miss that.

Anyway, currently I'm working, house/dog sitting, and taking improv classes instead of dance, because scheduling, yo. I'm working on object work and making sure I don't drop invisible things. Also keeping up a character for the entire scene. That's fun, let me tell you. ;)

Hope y'all are well!

Blatently stolen from riventhorn. She was nice and said borrowed. I am not nice and I STOLE IT. (Muahahahahaha)


If you could have me write a fic specifically for you, what would it be like? Fandom, characters/pairing, genre, plot elements, kinks (if applicable)... what's your ideal fic from me?

As she stated there is probably not a very good chance that I will write it, but I'd be interested to know what you would be interested in seeing from me!

When you see this post 3 lines from 3 WIPs

As riventhorn said in her post, these are mostly abandoned. I miss writing and I hope I can get back in the habit. I miss fandom but not enough to try and navigate tumblr.

1. Merlin’s voice is rough with sleep when he answers his phone. “Arthur? What’s the matter?”

“I-” Arthur starts, then stops, because he doesn’t really know what he’s doing. “I’m standing on your mother’s front porch.”

“Jesus Christ, Arthur. It’s three in the morning.” There’s a pause, like maybe Merlin doesn’t really know what he’s doing either, then Arthur can breathe again when Merlin says, “I’ll be down in a second.”


2. "You want another beer?" Charlie asked and passed  a bottle to Viktor before the other man could respond. "'Fraid there's not much else to do out here at night other than to drink."

"If I tan unevenly it will all be your fault."

Leon heaved the sigh of the long-suffering, which Morgana figured was fair, considering he was wearing a suit and tie next to the pool in the middle of a Las Vegas summer. "You asked me to remind you that you're to dine with the family at seven."

Because if there's one thing I've learned, it's that I love to keep a book list! So, without further ado:

Audio Books:
1.) The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
2.) The Death of Santini by Pat Conroy
3.) The Town That Food Saved by Ben Hewitt
4.) Ladies Night by Mary Kay Andrews
5.) The Magicians by Lev Grossman
6.) The Magician King by Lev Grossman
7.) The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman
8.) On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love an Pasta by Jen Lin-Liu
9.) Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamont
10.) True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society by Farhad Manjoo
11.) Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You by Sam Gosling
12.) My Korean Deli by Ben Ryder Howe
13.) The Red Tent by Anita Diamante
14.) World Gone By by Dennis Lehane
15.) The Drop by Dennis Lehane
16.) The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared by Alice Ozma
17.) Parents Behaving Badly by Scott Gummer
18.) A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
19.) Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
20.) The Few by Alex Kershaw
21.) The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
22.) SuperFreakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt
23.) Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
24.) What Comes After by Steve Watkins
25.) Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnick
26.) City of Thieves by David Benioff
27.) One Summer:  America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
28.) The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson
29.) Everything Changes by Jonathan Tropper
30.) Death in the City of Light by David King
31.) All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner
32.) Death Without Company by Craig Johnson
33.) Kindness Goes Unpunished by Craig Johnson
34.) Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams by Paul Hemphill
35.) To The Power of Three by Laura Lippman
36.) The Floor of Heaven by Howard Blum
37.) Another Man's Moccasins by Craig Johnson
38.) Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
39.) March by Geraldine Brooks

Paper and Ink Books:
1.) Bossypants by Tina Fey
2.) Harry Potter and the Sorcer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
3.) Rude Bitches Make Me Tired by Celia Rivenbark
4.) The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
5.) This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
6.)Yes Please by Amy Poehler
7.) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
8.) Hungry by Darlene Barnes
9.) Stop Dressing Your Six Year Old Like A Skank by Celia Rivenbark
10.) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
11.) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
12.) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
13.) Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
14.) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
15.) Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
16.) Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery
17.) What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding by Kristin Newman
18.) Anne of the Island by L. M. Mongtomery
19.) Very Good Lives by J. K. Rowling

eBooks:
1.) Red Eye (Patrick Kenzie vs. Harry Bosch) by Dennis Lehane vs. Michael Connelly*


*this was a short story that was part of a larger collection of mystery/suspense writers facing off their characters against one another. I just bought this one because these were the characters I was interested in. :)

It's a new year so lots of lovely new things to read. What's on your lists for this year?

because I knew y'all would enjoy it.

Take this in lieu of a real life post for the moment, please?

Anyone have an ear to the ground about big bangs that are coming up or multi-fandom fests or anything of the sort?

Just wondering. I have been poking at a few things recently, but need some motivation. I don't quite even know what I'd write.

ANYWHOODLE.

I am mostly the same. How're you?! How's your mom and'em?!?

I keep telling myself that if I work on this, it will make me post more. I want to post more, I really do. Buuuutttttt..... I keep. Not. No good reason, really, but I keep putting it off.

So, have some more of the reading meme, and maybe I will get up to speed soon.

Day 11 - A book that disappointed you
I just finished reading Swamplandia by Karen Russell, and I don't know what I was expecting, butttt that wasn't it. It probably didn't help that a few years ago a guy at Barnes and Noble tried to handsell it to me by claiming he was in the same MFA program as Ms. Russell and that it was one of the best books he'd ever read, but the conclusion of the book felt rushed to me, and with too many loose ends. I also tend to struggle with magical realism. That's probably the main reason I wasn't a fan of The Peculiar Sadness of Lemon Cake.

Day 12 - A book or series of books you've read more than five times
The Little House on the Prairie books. I loved- LOVED- those books when I was a kid. And it was a series that I grew up with. As a seven year old, I wasn't particularly interested in Laura's story past say, On the Banks of Plum Creek, but by the time I was a tween, her romance with Almanzo through These Happy Golden Years was very intriguing to me.

(And I've never listened to the audio books, but apparently the scene after singing school where Laura and Almanzo are trying to break the horses is, ahem, pretty inspired.)

Day 13 - Favourite childhood book OR current favourite YA book (or both!)
Day 14 - Favourite character in a book (of any sex or gender)
I have always been a fan of Scarlett O'Hara from Gone With the Wind. She's far from perfect, a very flawed character to the point that it is easy to see how people dislike her, but she keeps fighting to survive. She doesn't give a damn what anyone thinks, with the exception of her mother, (and later, Melanie). I haven't tried to read Scarlett or Rhett Butler's People. I just can't. I like Scarlett the way she is, swearing that tomorrow, she'll go home to Tara.

Day 15 - Your "comfort" book
A chick-lit novel by Mary Kay Andrews called Hissy Fit. It's Southern chick-lit, which makes it even more fun for me, and quite honestly, the title of the book shows why it's not your typical Southern, Stand-By-Your-Man, type of book. There are women in the book who do live up to that profile, but the main character, Keely Murdock, has a little too much of a spine for that. When she finds her husband-to-be deeply involved with another woman at her rehearsal dinner, Keely pitches the hissy fit to end all hissy fits. What happens after that starts to change their small southern town in a myriad of ways.

But hahahaha, I wrote something for untold legends! Here:

Title: Blackbird, Fly (Waiting For This Moment to Arise)
Creator: wanderhomeagain
Type: (fic, fanart, fanmix, etc.) 4,500 word fic, Modarn AU
Pairing: (list the main/endgame pairing FIRST, or only) Gwaine/Leon, mentions of Arthur/Merlin
Rating: PG-ish
Warnings/Content: Depictions of a neglectful parent. I also insult McDonald's (but I have a feeling they've heard worse).
Summary: (if not a fic, or art, then a description of what the fanwork is) Meeting the Parents can have various meanings; or, Gwaine meets Leon&'s family, Leon figures out that his own father has it all figured out, and family is what you make of it.
Note: There are several original characters in this story that make up the bulk of Leon's family. Set in Liverpool, thus the Beatles title. I couldn't help myself. No offence is intended and no profit is made from a little story like this. Special thanks to this_is_kelly for always holding my hand, and to emjayelle for hosting this lovely fest.
Link: Only on livejournal, folks, sorry. I am a technophobe.