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Original reading of the month was All of Us Murderers, by KJ Charles, some fun Gothic m/m.

And here is one of the fics I enjoyed this month:

Heated Rivalry Fic Recs

Epistolary continues to be my favorite genre in this fandom. Via unfitforsociety, thanks for the rec!

Influential, Ilya Rozanov/Shane Hollander, 6k, general audiences


Happy reading!

I can't believe it's February already. I read several published books in January, including:

• Sorcery and Small Magics, by Maiga Doocy, a tropey and satisfying m/m fantasy romance that had me cracking out my violin playlist on Spotify


• The Everlasting, by Alix E. Harrow, an m/f time loop fantasy romance about the uses and abuses of story-telling

And here are some of the fanfics I enjoyed:( Beyond Evil and Heated Rivalry )

I had another slow year both for new fics and rereads, but here's some of the fics I returned to most often in 2025:( Read more... )

I had another slow reading month, both in fanfic and books. I finished only three fics in September, including:

• an Only Friends Sand/Ray/Boeing threesome fic (3k, explicit)
• a Seventeen RPF Seungcheol/Jeonghan/Mingyu omegaverse threesome fic (16k, explicit)
• a Devil Judge omegaverse Yo-han/Ga-on fic (6k, explicit)

At least this little collection has a pleasing Venn diagram-like quality to it, even if the quantity is disappointing.

Happy reading!

I'm still on my Agatha Christie kick. This month it was Murder in Mesopotamia, which is set on an archaeological dig in Iraq. I'm pretty sure it's one I never read before, nor have I seen the David Suchet episode. Christie was interested in archaeology and participated in digs, so it had some interesting details about the work and day-to-day life of archaeologists in that era. It featured a different narrator than most Poirot books: a woman hired as nurse to the eventual victim about a week before her death. The nurse was both opinionated and unreliable, which was a fun combo in some regards since you could see how her prejudices for or against certain characters were affecting her judgement and blinding her to some of the realities of the case, but unpleasant when her opinions involved racism against the local Arab workers at the dig, which they frequently did.

As for the mystery itself, perhaps the easiest explanation of my feelings is that I enjoyed the setup, but not the solution. One hopes for a satisfying answer to all three of the questions of Who, Why, and How, and the ending was so improbable on one of those counts that it destroyed my suspension of disbelief. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the classic Christie twists and turns and it's a light, fast read, so I wouldn't describe it as wasted time.

And here are some of the fics I enjoyed in July!( MDZS, Beyond Evil, K-pop RPF )

Original fiction reading of the month included The Amalfi Curse, by Sarah Penner, which was fine, but not amazing. Maybe a little blander than I feel like a story about Italian sea witches ought to have been. Gorgeous cover, though.

And here are some of the fics I enjoyed in May:( The Pitt and SHINee RPF )

Original fiction reading of the month included The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door, by H.G. Parry, a dark academia historical fantasy with a lot of ominous foreshadowing that kept me turning pages to see exactly how everything was going to go wrong.

On the fanfiction front, here are some of the fics I enjoyed in March:( 2 MDZS epistolary fics )

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in January:( Read more... )

I had a fairly slow reading year, including re-reads, but here's a few of the fics I came back to most often this year.( Read more... )

The other day I was looking at my 2023 fic reading stats post for unrelated reasons and got to the line about hoping to find a new "large and active fiction-based fandom" in 2024 and had a sad little laugh. That very much has NOT happened so far and I've neither read nor written much fic this year as a result. Being in between major fandoms is the worst.

October was particularly bad because I was traveling again for most of it (work-related) and while I enjoy traveling and am quite happy with what I accomplished, it also leaves me even less time to sift through my favorite tags in search of anything to capture my interest.

Anyway, that's all a lead-up to the unfortunate fact that I only have one single rec this month. 🥲

K-pop RPF Fic Rec

At least it's a fun one, though! This was one of those fics I didn't know how badly I wanted until I saw it in the tags and pounced.

puppy boy solutions, Kim Kibum/Choi Minho/Kim Mingyu, 5k, explicit

Happy reading! I hope there will be more in November.