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What I've been reading

I read The Frogs and Toads All Sang, a collection of silly poems written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel for private distribution among his friends, which were rediscovered and published a few years back with the illustrations remastered by his daughter, Adrienne. They are super charming and fun.

What I'm reading now

The new Temeraire book, except slowly because I don't really want it to end.
mayhap: Javert smiling (happy Javert!)
Via [livejournal.com profile] icarus_chained, two fusions of Les Misérables into the Temeraire 'verse:

Claws of Justice by AMarguerite
Rated: Fiction K+ - English - Adventure - Javert - Words: 633

Lieutenant Javert wins a skirmish during the siege of Toulon. Inspired by a tumblr thread started by simplyirenic.

Javert's dragon is named Justice, because of course she is.


and choose the sweetest yoke by voksen
Rated: Fiction K+ - English - Valjean & Javert - Words: 1,488

Javert and Fraternité are stuck on escort duty.

Javert is totally a dragon and Jean Valjean is also a dragon and he can carry way more than just Cosette's bucket of water and I only wish there were more of this story.


And via Rare Pair Fest 2013 (which I seriously type as rairpair fest every single time for some reason and then I have to go back and fix it), two stories that are anonymous at the time of this posting.

All Possible Futures (3336 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Young Avengers
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Billy Kaplan/Nate Richards, Teddy Altman/Billy Kaplan
Characters: Billy Kaplan, Nate Richards (Young Avengers)
Additional Tags: Infidelity, Time Travel
Summary:

After (another) spell gone wrong, Billy finds himself in the future - at least, one possible future out of many. While he's there, he meets someone familiar. Takes place during the new Young Avengers series.

I would never have thought to ship them, but this is a great story that brings out how much Billy and Nate really have in common.


Gift Horses (1311 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Loveless
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Agatsuma Soubi/Kaidou Kio
Characters: Kaidou Kio, Agatsuma Soubi
Summary:

You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes... well, you know the rest.

Poor Kio. Settling for a bit of physical affection when he really wants a relationship with his gorgeous, spectacularly emotionally-unavailable roommate.
mayhap: manuscript vine with dragon head (like dragons)
What I've been reading

I read Blood of Tyrants, the penultimate Temeraire book. The last couple books in the series have felt a bit like they were just marking time and filling pages, whereas I felt like a book's worth of things actually happened in this book, even with the not-strictly-necessary amnesia subplot. Oh, the amnesia subplot! )

And also the rest of the book. )

Also, isn't anyone going to write the Les Misérables crossover where, I dunno, Jean Valjean is a dragon or something?

I read The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy, which probably includes the author of at least one of your favorite books as a kid. You could read it if you still are a kid, but you don't have to be.

I read The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories and I loved it, even if it was unnecessarily typeset with wide margins and overgenerous linespacing to make it look longer than it is and the two stories reprinted from Possession are better where they were originally, in context.

What I'm reading next

Dunno.

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