Could you describe the ruckus, sir?

Unrelated to absolutely anything but my brain, but references to K/T (Kane/Toews) on the hockey rpf meme still cause a moment of confusion as my long-dormant geology thinking goes straight to the K/T (Cretaceous/Tertiary) boundary.

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I was going to WIP amnesty some stuff to AO3 for a kudos boost for my birthday a while back, and in the process discovered that almost all of my random Teen Wolf crap in my google drive can be woven into a single storyline. So, instead of letting go of a fandom, I've now got 5000 words waiting for probably another 5-8k. Blurgh. I've been trawling thesinbin for hockey ideas in the hope that the Teen Wolf thoughts will go dormant again and I can jettison it.

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What I finished: Jackdaw! I really liked it, and have been periodically thinking about re-reading it, already, over the past couple days.

Think of England was great. Charm of Magpies was great. But Jackdaw absolutely (ahem) nails my desire for characters to make mistakes - big, big, big mistakes - and to repent and recover from it. There were a couple brief stretches where Ben and Jonah Just. Kept. Talking. that I skimmed over, and if I am being super-picky for a published work, I'm not sure how I feel about the placement of the flashbacks. BUT! Those are tiny personal preferences amid a story that I really loved.

If you are a person who reads M/M and buys books, or who occasionally spends $5 on things that you enjoy - fancy coffee, a smallish cake, some fraction of a movie ticket - then I thoroughly recommend tossing that money in KJ Charles's direction.

What I'm reading now: IDK. I think I lost my copy of A Hundred Years of Solitude under my flurry of tax paperwork. Le sigh.

What I'm reading next: Next. Ha. Yeah, right.

I found a copy of Hyperbole and a Half in a bag underneath some terrible presents from two Christmases ago. Apparently I bought myself some books along with what I bought my mom, and then promptly forgot about them. Maybe that.

I finally admitted that I really don't care about Forever, and one episode of Backstrom was plenty, so that's another 12 hours or so of DVR space. I think I may have lost an episode of Person of Interest. Oh, well.

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Books!

What I finished:
Enlightened (Joanna Chambers) did in fact turn out to be a really good read, and a solidly written one! I maintain that I don't think I would have stuck with the series if it'd just been the one book available, but if you want, like, a lot of words and a rec that it ends on a good (for historically plausible versions of good) note, then you have it.

Men Under the Mistletoe (Anthology) - because if I'm going to be under a foot of snow, I might as well go back to Christmas, right?

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What I'm reading now:

I made it another page or two into The Suffragette Scandal, and then there was either hockey to watch, a kitten to entertain, or a broken website to fix, so I haven't gotten back to it. I also finally picked up A Hundred Years of Solitude tonight, but I was just reading during the intermission hockey commentary that I didn't care about. So the environment didn't lend itself to immersion, but honestly I just had to start it because I have been saying I would.

What I'm reading next:

Jackdaw, still, probably.