Title: Syndicated Sci-Fi Show
Author: ClaudiaPriscus
Characters: Dean, Sam
Rating: PG for mild profanity
Genre: Crossover with SG-1
Word Count: ~1000
Spoilers: 5x08
Summary: Sam and Dean land in Stargate: SG-1. Jack is not amused.
A/N: Written for the "Kripke Started It" Changing Channels commentfic meme.

Syndicated Sci-Fi Show, Up Next!

Title: But Time Didn’t Stop
Characters: Jack Jack/Ianto
Rated: PG-13 ANGST COE Spoilers MPREG
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Summary: Jack reads the Martyn book.
Author's Note: Starts after COE.
Masterlist: http://ericadawn16.livejournal.com/63337.html

( October 22nd, 2009 )

Chapter 36: Jamian

Jamian and Kendra step out from Underhill with Professor Pelletier, to behold their magic in the tin light of day.

Fandom: Highlander
Pairing: none
Length: ~5K
Author on LJ: none, as far as I know
Author Website: Shores of Loch Shiel
Why this must be read: Highlander fics that explore the mystical are not rare. SImilarly, fics that explore what it's like for one of the characters after they become Immortal are not rare. What makes this one well worth reading is the mix of mysticism and myth. The author writes incredibly descriptive prose, lighting the story with both an Immortal mysticism and a Celtic one. She also answers just why Ramirez went to find Connor. At the same time, this is not just about Connor, but also Methos and his future.

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Innocent Smiles

Note Bene: this is the first part of a trilogy about Connor MacLeod. The others can be found here:
Hollow Bones (PG-13)
Nest of Arms (NC-17)

Fandom: MARVEL COMICS
Pairing: Gen
Length: 6,400 words
Author on LJ: marinarusalka
Author Website: Marina's Homepage

Why this must be read: Pepper Potts runs into Christine Everhart at a book signing. It is awkward. They are formal. They find some common ground. They act like a pair of mature, intelligent adults, who have quite a bit in common. How often do you find that in your fiction? Action-adventure genre fiction, moreover.

Chloe Liked Olivia

These following questions were inspired by a conversation I had with myutopia .

I think we can all agree that by the end of Season One, Mulder and Scully already cared a great deal for each other, but were they already in love? Did that come later? Or, was there a person who fell in love first? So I ask the shippers...

1.
Poll #1483201
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 110

Who do you think fell in love first (if you think there was one who fell in love first)?

2. Why did you choose this answer?

3. Do you think there was a specific moment when said person fell in love? Or at what point do you think said person was already in love? (For example, myutopia and I agreed that Mulder was already in love with Scully by One Breath).

4. Or, if you think both characters fell in love around the same time, you can tell us why.

 Title: A Stroke of Insight
Author: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
Themes/Topics: Medical Trauma, Capacity of the Human Brain

This is a life-changing read. I am going to recommend/buy it for many people in my life. The beginning can be a little science heavy, and for someone whose interests lie elsewhere, it was a little tough. I highly recommend trying some of it on audio because it is easier to pay attention, and also, it is read by the author who has a clear passion for the material. This novel illustrates the recovery possible of the brain after a stroke, but it is so much more than that: it illuminates the possibilities we have inside ourselves to grow from within our own minds.

Title: The Lovely Bones
Author: Alice Sebold
Themes/Topics: Murder, Heaven, Love/Loss

Wow. This novel hit me hard. It is a powerful tale of murder and the aftermath it leaves to those that survive and are left to pick-up the pieces. Even so, the murder is just the pathway that allows the author to convey an interesting take on the afterlife which leaves you wondering...what if?

Happy (late) birthday to chosenmortal, and happy birthday to topaz119 -- I hope you both had a great day!

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MERICA'S MOST-WATCHED NETWORK GETS MOST DVR LIFT FOR THE FIFTH CONSECUTIVE WEEK. In a Week that Included Rebroadcasts of "CSI" and "The Mentalist," CBS Adds the Most Viewers and Leads in Adults 18-49 and Adults 25-54 Lift.

Fifth Week Live Plus 7-Day DVR Playback Sees 13 CBS Series Gaining More Than One Million Viewers and 9 Series Gaining a Half a Rating Point or More in Adults 18-49 "Criminal Minds" Is the Network's Top Playback Performer with a Viewer Increase of More Than +2 Million Viewers; "The Big Bang Theory" Leads CBS in Adults 18-49 with a Gain of +0.9 Rating Points.

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This is the tale of two cousins, a cadre of superheroes, a war, and sacrifice. In 1939, young Joseph Kavalier employed his Houdini-inspired escape talents to smuggle himself out of Prague and into the United States. His cousin in Brooklyn, Sammy Clay, loves comic books and is awed by Joseph's natural artistic talents. Together the two young Jewish men toil to create the Escapist and Luna Moth, among others, while Joe dreams of saving his family from the devastation of Europe under Hitler. The beautiful Rosa Saks captures his heart, even as Sammy takes a very different path. Then on the eve of the Pearl Harbor attack, everything changes.

My feelings on this are mixed. It's beautifully written and captures the spirit of the time period. Joe, Sammy, Rosa, and the rest of the wide cast are alive and vibrant. I can see why Chabon won the Pulitzer for this work. However, sometimes he went into exhaustive detail. In the middle of a scene it will dive into a three page history of the comic book, or a particular setting that never returned. Sometimes the perspective changes were dizzying as well, diving into characters we only see for a few pages. It felt as though the author had so much good material, he had to make sure all of it made it into the finished product. Yes, it was interesting stuff, but an info dump is still an info dump and it detracted from the flow of the story. It's worth reading, but not keeping.

Title: Foreigner
Author: C.J. Cherryh
Year: 1994
# of pages: 423
Date read: 10/7/2009
Rating: 3*/5 = good

Description:

"It had been nearly five centuries since the starship Phoenix, lost in space and desperately searching for the nearest G5 star, had encountered the planet of the atevi. On this alien world, law was kept by the use of registed assassination, alliances were defined by individual loyalties not geographical borders, and war became inevitable once humans and one faction of atevi established a working relationship. It was a war that humans had no chance of winning on this planet so many light-years from home.

Now, nearly two hundred years after that conflict, humanity has traded its advanced technology for peace and an island refuge that no atevi will ever visit. Then the sole human the treaty allows into atevi society is marked for an assassin's bullet. The work of an isolated lunatic?. . .The interests of a particular faction?. . .Or the consequence of one human's fondness for a species which has fourteen words for betrayal and not a ingle word for love?

My thoughts:

This was a very good science fiction novel about different cultures interacting. I liked how Bren Cameron has to figure out what's going on without inadvertently offending his atevi hosts. I look forward to learning what happens next in the second book in the series, Invader.