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Hello! Here’s a rec for the Author Appreciation Week: love begging bowls by rosereddawn (AO3). It’s short but very, very lovely.

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i was tagged by contra-band, watch me cheat like a motherfucker to include at least 200% more books than i'm supposed to.

Task: In a text post, list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. Tag [however many] friends.

hav, by jan morris (<3 imaginary travelogues)

hallucinating foucault, by patricia duncker

očevi i oci/its kinda-sorta sequel ubistvo s predumišljajem (fathers and forefathers/premeditated murder), by slobodan selenić (ahaha look how fun and lovely life is in the balkans just kill me now *sobs*)

corto maltese, by hugo pratt (all of them, but corto maltese in siberia and the celts in particular)

the children's book, by a. s. byatt

changing planes, by ursula k. le guin

the folk of the air, by peter s. beagle 

the tiffany aching series, by terry pratchett

collected short stories, by saki (no assholes like edwardian assholes)

the chrestomanci series, by diana wynne jones

honourable mentions: the lord of the rings (obviously); mythologies, by yeats; marija modiljani, by vesna aleksić, the aubreyad in general and hms surprise in particular (debauched sloths!); & the hilary tamar series by sarah caudwell.

tagging junomarlowe, moon-veela, rob-anybody, rosereddawn, typhonatemybaby, zadiest & anyone else who feels like doing it!