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I read 127 books in 2009 and am (consider this advance warning) hopefully going to log all the outstanding ones over the next few days, although probably not in great depth. I also intended to post about Yuletide, as the author names should be going live shortly, but have run out of time for a detailed recs post, and keep finding more stories to read whenever I go back there. I received a great short fic in Lisa Barnett and Melissa Scott's Points universe (a series far too tragically short) - here, which slots neatly into the books and also makes me really want to re-read them again, apart from the minor drawback of not having a copy of the first one. Apart from that, probably my favourite so far is Five Stories the Reader Never Began, fan fic for Italo Calvino's If On a winter's night a traveller..., for its sheer audacity and playfulness, and the way it works in - and springs away from - the original book.

( Helen Dore Boylston, Sue Barton – Superintendent nurse (re-read). )

( Pauline Cartwright, Meg’s last springtime. )

( Douglas Kennedy, A special relationship (re-read). )