what in the who now?

[such_heights]

+ In department of 'omg this had better be a totally unfounded rumour': Fox to commission a RTD-penned US remake of Torchwood? WHAT. And I am just not thinking about how I would feel if it did turn out that RTD did indeed blow up his old show then go and make a brand new shiny one. May this never come to pass!

+ In happier news, queerlit50 is starting up, similar to 50books_poc. Read some queer authors! Tell me about them! :D My reading list for the next few weeks includes Sarah Waters' Fingersmith, Mary Renault's The Persian Boy, and Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint, so I will probably chat about those over there.

+ Also, oxoniensis's ninth porn battle is taking prompts.

+ eta: Also! The help_haiti auction closes in just over 24 hours. There's a lot of things still available over there very reasonably, and everything's all listed and indexed so it's easy to find something you might like.

Comments

[glinda]

queerlit50! I am so very excited about this, but sad because I've already signed up to do 50books_poc and I can't do both at once. However, if I can find some books by queer writers of colour I shall be very, very excited and write some recs for the comm. Also I want to read all the books you mentioned there. (I've been wanting to read Tales of the City - my local library has them all - for ages now, and this isn't helping my restraint!)

[such_heights]

Oh goodness, I definitely can't meet the challenge! If I read even 25 books of any description this year I'll be really happy. But yay, I hope you find some things to rec!

[glinda]

I'm such a slow reader these days :( Once upon a time I would have been all '100 books in a year? Pfff... nay bother'. Now not so much.

*points downwards*

zahrawithaz has made an awesome list of books and authors that meet both criteria! Very excited.

[zahrawithaz.livejournal.com]

You know the expression, "ask, and you shall receive"? I started to reply to you here, but it got too long.

So finally I did a post listing books by queer writers of color. I have 66 titles so far:
http://zahrawithaz.livejournal.com/12471.html

Hope it helps!

[glinda]

This is all kinds of awesome, thankyou.

[torachan]

Ooh, thank you! I have quite a few on my to-read list, but no way are there 66, so I'm sure there must be some good stuff in there I was unaware of! *goes*