So, it is party time again, folks!

[wiseheart]

Each year this time, we launch my virtual birthday party, which starts on October 1 and ends on October 9 at midnight, sharp. The goals of the party are to post as many comments and collapse as many threads as possible, on as many new pages as we can. It is always great fun, as you can see if you check out the similar entries of the last few years.

This year, I'll also throw the real party at mid-time - and post the recipes of all the food that will be there for you, so that you can all participate if you want to. Virtual food has no calories.

Fandom-related discussions are as welcome as the ones about coffee or chocolate (just to name a few favourites from previous years), and, of course, pictures and recipes of birthday cakes. ;)

So, drop by, tell your story, post your pics or silly poems, ask questions you always wanted to ask and have a good time!

Soledad, in excited expectation




Oh, and by the way, to provide birthday gifts hobbit-style, I've got a revived story and a Kansas 2 update for you.

Enjoy!

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

We've beaten last year already!

I'm currently still ploughing through my bookmarks from last year's Yuletide, trying to pick out my recs set before sign ups open. I'm down from 150 to 11 to reread and some 15 more I'm undecided over, but many of the remainder are novellas.

I've got a big pile of books on my long-unread heap (which is well over a hundred books now); some of them are Yuletide perennials so I might try to get my brain in gear for one of them -- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Stardust or Cloud Atlas perhaps.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Very impressive. I always fail at reccing fic, mostly because it is so hard to try and explain what is good about it (I hated writing book reports at school for the same reason - well that and the fact that the teacher didn't believe what I was reading and the fact that I could get through books very quickly).

I'm not sure how many books I've got on my to read list - I've been trying to avoid acquiring more paper books as they are bad for my hands to try and read, but this makes the heap less visible.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I find that too -- also I'm spoiler allergic, so I really don't want to do what a lot of recommenders do and review in such depth that it gives away much of the plot. There again, recs that just give the link don't tend to entice me.

I've had to split my to-read pile into two, not just because the piles started to teeter but because it was just getting psychologically overwhelming. At least now I have a single downstairs shelf for things I think might appeal, as well as the huge piles upstairs...