Category Archives: fanfiction

May 2015 Reading Log

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Nonfiction: A Companion to the Fairy Tale edited by Hilda Ellis Davidson and Anna Chaudhri is what is says on the tin. The introduction and the first couple of essays gave me a pretty good grounding in fairy tale scholarship … Continue reading →

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April 2015 Reading Log

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Lone Wolf (Bluewater Bay Book 4) by Aleksandr Voinov and L.A. Witt is a male/male romance. I’d read one book previously in this series, which focuses on the creative personalities surrounding a series of werewolf books and the television … Continue reading →

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March 2015 Reading Log

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Bring On the Dusk by M. L. Buchman – I’d read and enjoyed a previous book in this series, but this one ended up being a DNF, despite having a female military helicopter pilot as protagonist. I liked the … Continue reading →

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January 2015 Reading Log

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Bone Rider by J. Fally features a romance between a human and alien symbiotic sentient armor…well, actually the male human’s romance is with another male human, and there is a plot involving the U.S. Army and the Russian mafia, … Continue reading →

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November 2014 Reading Log

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Still Life With Murder by P.B. Ryan – First in the Nell Sweeney series, it’s a historical mystery set in Gilded Age Boston. The heroine has a terrible past and so does the man accused of murder, whom it … Continue reading →

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September/October 2014 Reading Log

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

I didn’t read very much beyond nonfiction in progress in September. Fanfiction: London Orbital by merripestin (Sherlock) features Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Sally Donovan, and Greg Lestrade trapped together in a car all night, for a case. Snappy dialogue ensues. … Continue reading →

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August 2014 Reading Log

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: A Case of Possession by K.J. Charles is second in the A Charm of Magpies series, a historical paranormal with an ongoing male/male romance. I love the way the magic is done in this series, and as usual, I … Continue reading →

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April 2014 Reading Log

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Hooray, now I’m only a year behind! Fiction: Emilie and the Hollow World by Martha Wells was a lot of fun, with a spunky heroine, interesting nonhumans, and lots of steampunk. Wells is one of my all-time favorite fantasy authors; … Continue reading →

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Reading Log, September-October 2013

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

I haven’t posted anything substantive in this blog in a really long time! Sorry about that. I haven’t been doing a lot of writing, but as usual when not writing much, I have been reading, and I’ve been logging that … Continue reading →

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Sime-Gen and Slashiness

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Victoria Janssen

My previous post on House of Zeor (1974) by Jacqueline Lichtenberg is about Sime-Gen and Romance Novels. If you will recall, in my last post I noted that though the author of House of Zeor explicitly excluded sexuality from the … Continue reading →

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