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rachelmanija ([personal profile] rachelmanija) wrote2025-09-01 01:12 pm
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Labor Day Book Poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 81


Which books would you most like me to review?

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Hemlock & Silver, by T. Kingfisher. The first book of hers I've actually liked!
49 (60.5%)

Lone Women, by Victor LaValle. Fantastic cross-genre western/historical/horror/fantasy.
24 (29.6%)

Into the Raging Sea, by Rachel Slade. The best nonfiction shipwreck book I've read since Shadow Divers.
26 (32.1%)

The Blacktongue Thief/The Daughter's War, by Christopher Buehlman. Excellent dark fantasy.
20 (24.7%)

The Bewitching, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Three timelines, all involving witches.
14 (17.3%)

Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Exactly what it sounds like.
25 (30.9%)

Archangel (etc), by Sharon Shinn. Lost colony romantic SF about genetically engineered angels.
26 (32.1%)

We Live Here Now, by Sarah Pinborough. Really original haunted house novel.
25 (30.9%)

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, by Stephen Graham Jones. Outstanding indigenous take on "Interview with the Vampire."
35 (43.2%)

When the Angels Left the Old Country, by Sacha Lamb. A Jewish demon and angel leave the old country; excellent voice, very Jewish.
47 (58.0%)

Some other book I mentioned reading but failed to review.
3 (3.7%)

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rachelmanija ([personal profile] rachelmanija) wrote2025-08-25 12:14 pm
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Fic in a Box Letter

Full letter to come!

Thank you for writing for me! If you have any questions, please check with the mods. I am a very easy recipient and will be delighted with whatever you write for me. I have no special requirements beyond what's specifically stated in my DNWs. I'm fine with all POVs (i.e., first, second, third), tenses, ratings, story lengths, etc.

My AO3 name is Edonohana. I am open to treats. Very open. I love them.

I like hurt-comfort, action/adventure, horror, domestic life, worldbuilding, evocative descriptions, camaraderie, loyalty, trauma recovery, difficult choices, survival situations, mysterious places and weird alien technology, food, plants, animals, landscape, X-Men type powers, learning to love again or trust again or enjoy life again, miniature things or beings, magic, strange rituals, unknowable things, epistolary fiction, found footage/art/creepy movies/etc, canon divergence AUs anf alternate versions of characters. I particularly love deadly/horrifying yet weirdly beautiful settings, especially if there's elements of space/time/reality warping as well. And many other things, too, of course! That list is just in case something sparks an idea.

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Caught in Crystal - Patricia Wrede )

Dark Tower - Stephen King )

Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey  )

Marvel 616 )

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke )

The Stand - Stephen King )