Sep. 19th, 2010

icepixie: ([B5] Delenn btwn candle and star)
Insta-rec: The Future An Experiment by [livejournal.com profile] thrace_ - Lovely, plotty Myka/H.G. Wells fic. I wish it were canon.

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I am the very model of a modern major general... )
icepixie: ([B5] Ivanova and Garibaldi post-brawl)
Or, In Which I Fangirl James Joyce Kind Of A Lot.

Title: "Iter Durum"
Author: [personal profile] icepixie
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1850
Timeline: 2269 (Handy-dandy timeline/master list)
Summary: November is hard for Susan Ivanova, and Michael has learned to give her space on this particular anniversary. It might go on like this forever, but the universe has other plans.

Every year she hopes it will hurt less, and every year it does, but the pain diminishes with the approximate speed of a bird emptying a beach by carrying away the grains of sand one by one in its tiny beak. )

Books.

Sep. 19th, 2010 09:46 pm
icepixie: ([W13] HG Wells curly border)
I've gotten bogged down in the third book of S.L. Viehl's Stardoc series. Mostly it's because the main character still loves this dude who is really a...well, "giant heel" hardly covers it, but it'll do, I suppose. She acknowledges that he's evil, but somehow can't stop being into him. I hear it can take a while to really root someone out of your heart, but sweetie, he sold you to reptilian interstellar slavers. I think at that point, it's okay for you to hate him without reservations.

It doesn't help that this is the same guy who had no problems telepathically taking over her mind for fairly shady reasons (not that there are good reasons to telepathically take over someone's mind, but some are better than others, you know?) and then, under the influence of alien goo, physically raped her. I cringed a lot at that one, but stuck with the series because I thought he was going to be left behind after that book. Not so much, sadly. And then there is this, and while there are hints that he's playing some kind of long game and this particular betrayal was not all as it seemed, I've pretty much reduced this book to a grudgeread. I want his ass airlocked ASAP.

I went to the library yesterday, though, so I have other books to read. I finally picked up a Borges collection, and I am now in possession of Android Karenina. I can only assume this will go better than the last time I attempted Tolstoy. (I was twelve, it was War and Peace, you can guess who won that round.) I also got a book on Venice from the same fellow who wrote Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

Sadly, the books I requested are all at another branch, so I'll have to wait another few days for my collected Auden (I...thought I needed more of him in my life), Cold Comfort Farm (which I hear is fun) and The Bostonians. Yes, the last one is James, BLEH--The Turn of the Screw was okay, but I got about thirty pages into The Ambassadors before I realized that was going to be one of the texts from the orals list I covered via MasterPlots--but I hear there's canon femslash or at least extreme subtext, and for some reason I am very into femslash right now. I think it's Warehouse 13's fault. ;)

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