2010 FIC REC POST

[clayangel.livejournal.com]

Hey all! ^_^

Next Monday nominations will begin in earnest, but for now, I'm here to poke everyone and ask have you been reading...? ^__^ For those of us who fell behind on our reading, it can be quite overwhelming. Believe me, I'm right there with you. Sometimes I don't even know where to begin. So in an attempt to help each other out, let's have a BIG OLD RECCOMENDATION POST!

Is there a story you read this past year that you absolutely loved? One you kept coming back to or maybe just recently discovered that is an absolute must read? Maybe there's a story with a pithy amount of comments that you don't understand why more people didn't find and gush over? Tell us!

Share with us the stories that it would be an absolute crime for us not to peruse before nominations begin. It's a great way to get some lesser known stories a little recognition and it would make a good starting point for anyone doing catch up reading.

But don't just give us an author and title; tell us why you loved these story. What emotions did they evoke in you? What technical aspects wowed you? Why should we be reading them, too?

As a reminder, here's The list of stories eligible for nomination. and The proposed 2010 nominations categories for perusal.

Thanks, everyone! :D

Comments

[clayangel.livejournal.com]

More than anything, I find myself wish there were more tearjerker/angst-type categories. There were so many good ones this year, and I feel like I have to shun so many. :\

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that gets tough. If I can't find enough categories to fit them all in, I usually try to determine which ones would be less likely to get nominated by other people, or go by whether I've nominated the author for other stories, etc. But sometimes I end up not nominating a really awesome story :(

[clayangel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm the same way.

Oh, by the way, do you think you would be interested in any of the text files I made for my kindle? They're nothing special other than they'd save you the time it took to compile them. I have all chapters of When Fate Intervenes, all chapters of Phoenix and all chapters of A Strange Escape. Those were the long stories I'm making sure I finish reading for nominations.

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

Oh, I would love that. I'm not sure I can figure out how to get them on my Kindle but I'll give it a shot! I just started reading "A Strange Escape" and WFI has been on my Must Read list for a loooooong time. No rush, whenever you get around to it.

[clayangel.livejournal.com]

I can do it now. :) I just finished reading WFI. It's really good. ^___^ And she left it off at a torturous spot. I've read the first chapter of ASE, and it totally intrigues me. I'm going to go continue that one now.

As for putting the stuff on the kindle, you could always try dragging and dropping into the folder, but the calibre thing makes it really easy: http://calibre-ebook.com/ I haven't needed to format it or anything. I just told it to put it on the device, and it works just fine. But I'll email you the text files now.