Fandom Year in Review

Meme taken from sixbeforelunch

Your main fandom this year?

This has been kind of a wild year for me fandom wise, I got into four new fandoms this year! The big ones are Doctor Who and Dead Boy Detectives, Doctor Who really sucked me in, to the point that I was listening to Big Finish stuff and reading tie-in novels, and I don't think I'm done with Who, just taking a break for a bit. Dead Boy Detectives I loved with my whole heart, and I'm still sad it won't be getting a second season. I dipped into Ghosts (US version) for a bit, it is very fun and chill. And lastly, I have spent the holidays watching the Granada Sherlock Holmes series, and I love it so much. I think teenage me would be so happy, because I read so many of the Sherlock Holmes stories as a teen and loved them, and it has been long enough now that I don't remember a lot of the details of the mysteries, so the stories are fresh again.
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Fourth quarter Reading Wrap-Up

My fourth quarter was better than my third I think, although I did have to read some short books in order to complete my Book Bingo (which I did yeah!)  Here are the books I finished:

The Wager by David Grann - a really interesting read about a shipwreck and mutiny, not always an easy read, but worth it if you are at all interested in the Age of Sail.

Mr Cadmus by Peter Ackroyd - this is a weird little book, the beginning seems like a traditional sort of mystery set-up, but the second half got really weird, almost like magical realism.  I wasn't really for me.

Betrothed by Claire Cullen - this was I think the first ever professionally published omegaverse novel that I've read.  It was alright, I enjoyed it for what it was.  It is a bit of a fairy tale retelling, and I did like the idea of in their society the prefect relationship is a triad relationship. My one complaint was the omega was a little too damsel in distress for my liking, I just wanted the author to give the poor guy a win instead of just piling more stuff upon him.

Cemetery Boys by Adien Thomas - I enjoyed this.  It was every YA, and there were times that I really wanted these teens to seek out help from an adult, but I got why they didn't.  The world building was interesting, and based on a culture I know next nothing about. The romance was sweet, and I wasn't sure how it could have a happy ending, but it did, so that was a nice surprise.

Dance 10, vol 3 by Satou Inoue - These idiots are back again, at least in this volume they were finally starting to admit to themselves that they may actually be feeling attraction to a person of the same gender, and the story progressed somewhat.

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K LeQuinn - this story is kind of famous in sci-fi circles, and I thought it was a interesting thought experiment, but the story itself was pretty short and didn't really have much meat to it.

The Little Restaurant near Place des Ternes by Georges Simenon - this is a very different Christmas story, it's basically about this woman seeing a young woman heading down the same route she took as a youth (ie being used by men and prostitution) and decides to prevent it, even if the girl probably won't thank her for it.  It is very of the time it was written (1950s), but I still enjoyed it.

Christmas Re-union by Andrew Caldecott - an another Christmas mystery, this was alright, but left open ended, even leaving the option of a ghost having done it.

A Share in Death by Deborah Crombie - an okay mystery, the big problem with this one was there were a lot of secondary characters and most of them were not developed enough.  The few central characters were done well, but the rest were forgettable, to the point that after the second murder when they were interviewing all the suspects again I was like "who are these people again?" which is not something you want in a mystery.  Also, the detective had a thing for two different women in the story, and I was like "what is the point of this?"

The Geek Who Saved Christmas by Annabeth Albert - Grumpy man needs help decorating for the holidays from his sunshine Christmas loving neighbour.  It was sweet and fluffy, and just what I needed for a pick me up before Christmas.