Book Memeage!

Nicked from cupcake_goth, and it's an utterly adorable little meme:

Name four comfort-reading books:

-"The Tao of Pooh" by Benjamin Hoff: Taoism made even easier, by seeing it through the eyes of a certain Bear of Very Little Brain

-"The Halloween Tree" by Ray Bradbury: I re-read it every October, and I don't think there's any other writer who captures the spirit (HA!) of the season as well as the Grand Old Master

-"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman: Okay, it has its Nightmare Fuel moments (Bilquis and her John, in that early chapter), but there are so many cool stories within this book that I like to open it at random and just reeead when I need a pick me up

-"Blood Rites" by Jim Butcher: Funniest opening and ending lines ever, and the reveal in the middle is a CMoH that makes me go "Awwww..." every time I read it.

BONUS! -"Yami no Matsuei (Descendants of Darkness) Vol. 5": Since the cultural elitists like to say this isn't a book since it's manga, I thought I'd Leave It In Anyway. It might start out with a funny-shivery Muraki cameo, but this one makes me just go "awwww", as Tsuzuki finds a book that one can get lost in and meets a gender-flipped version of himself.

[FANFIC] "Gormenghast" --The Heat of the Stones (PG-ish, possible Steerpike/Titus pre-slash)

At long last, I have banged out my first-ever "Gormenghast" fanfic, and likely the first of not a few... I wrote this in response to a prompt on comment_fic and I hope it satisfies the OP, as it isn't as slashy as some might have done. Mostly because I've never really seen SP -- notwithstanding his BBC mini-series incarnation's good looks which render him Slash Bait -- as very slashable, given his Freudian Excuse. Titus on the other hand... I get the feeling he's so starved for love that on some level, he'd take any love or affection or ...pleasureable friction of any kind that's offered him from *anyone*, even another male. But I'm pleased with the results, and I hope you enjoy it, too.

( Gripping the sandy ledge of the windowsill, Titus leaned his head far out over it... )