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Fiction books
Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Lee Sullivan. Black Mould
Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Lee Sullivan. Body Work (re-read)
Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Lee Sullivan. Night Witch (re-read)
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Valley of Fear (e) (re-read)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Herland
Ursula K Le Guin. Catwings (e)
Ursula K Le Guin. Catwings Return (e)
Ursula K Le Guin. Jane On Her Own (e)
Ursula K Le Guin. Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings (e)
Jack Masterton. The Same Damn Thing
E Nesbit. The Railway Children
Jeff Smith. Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume (re-read)

Abandoned
Hanan al-Shayk. Women of Sand and Myrrh

Picture books
Diane Elson. Olivia the Ostrich Has a Special Day (re-read)
Adam Goodes, Ellie Laing, David Hardy. Back On Country
Adam Goodes, Ellie Laing, David Hardy. Somebody's Land
Barbara Lloyd, Michael Williams. Pirate Edna of Old Tallangatta (re-read)

Non-fiction books
Stan Grant. Talking to My Country
Rosaleen Love. Reefscape
Thomas Mayo. Always Was, Always Will Be

short, screen, and stage )
books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Connie Willis. Inside Job (e)
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1. Wreck-It Ralph is a wonderful, wonderful movie. It hits a lot of familiar plot beats for a children's movie about the outsider who just wants friends (not that children are likely to notice or care) but it hits them really well, with a lot of humour and warmth and heart.

"Paperman", the short film that runs in front of it, is also really good.


2. I still haven't seen The Hobbit or Les Mis yet.


3. [livejournal.com profile] scarfman, a cartoonist whose hobbies include mapping periods of time onto other periods of time, is marking Doctor Who's 50th anniversary year thus: He has mapped the show's 50-year history onto a single year, and on each date corresponding to a milestone like "first appearance of the Daleks" or "first companion departure" is blogging a series of one-panel cartoons marking the event.


4. Not going to do the fanfic year-in-review meme this year; it hardly seems worth it when I finished exactly one fanfic this year. (A definite winner for the "What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January?" question, though.)

Once again, all the unfinished stories I had the first year I did the meme remain unfinished, though some of them did stir in their sleep. (One has actually progressed from "This needs completely rewriting but I have no idea where to start" to "I have a pretty good idea of what is needed now". Not that that means it's going get done any time soon.)


5. If anyone asks me if I did anything noteworthy this weekend, I may mention that the most noteworthy thing was something that I didn't do. (In fact, I'm not doing it right this moment. I'm not feeling any great sense of occasion about not doing it, which tends to confirm my feeling that it was the right thing to not do.) I probably won't be inclined to go into detail about it, though.
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The iPod Shuffle Meme

No, not that one. Let's be honest, when we need inspiration, the first place we go is our music library. So let's try something a little bit different. My music library is no help to me, but maybe it can be for someone else. Here's how this thing works:

1) Comment to this post, and I'll give you a prompt in the form of whatever song shuffles up next on whatever music player I've got going at the time. [Variant: If you prefer, I'll then randomly pick a moment in the song, and your prompt will be the line that's playing at that moment.]

2) Turn on the music player of your choice to shuffle, post this to your own journal and dole out prompts. No, you can't hide your shameful music. If it shuffles up, that's the gig.

3) Write/draw/whatever way you create for the prompt you've been given: post it. Again, no hiding the shame. Even if you think it's awful, post it.

4) Link your finished product to the prompt comment, because it's always lovely to see the results.

(via [livejournal.com profile] justice_turtle, who gave me "I Want to Go To Andorra" by Pete Seeger, and [livejournal.com profile] lost_spook, who gave me "Hole in My Pocket" by Sheryl Crow)

I Want to Go to Andorra )
Hole in My Pocket )

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