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In an effort to be more thorough when I do my recs at the Digest, I recently bookmarked a few non-big-three archives, including the HG/SS category at aff.net. My first visit there, I found a fic that caught my attention; I liked it, and I wanted to see what was coming next. Chapter two was gripping and diabolical, chapter three told of a Gryffindor getting revenge in a manner that a Slytherin approved of, and the rest has been hurt/comfort, which you know I adore. Put a fragile but tenacious Hermione with an unabashedly sexy Severus, and sparks will fly, so even though I recced it at the Digest last night, I'm reccing anonymous_plume's fic Above All Things here today.

I'd also like you to join me in welcoming her to LiveJournal, since she started her blog here just a few days ago. Please meander over and say hi to Nom de Plume, aka anonymous_plume!

books

As I was on my way to work today, I thought of a book I haven't thought of in ages. I read it when I was in junior high twenty-*COUGH* years ago; the librarian recommended another of the author's books first (The Woman Who Loved Reindeer), and when I finished that, I looked for other things Meredith Ann Pierce had written and came up with Birth of the Firebringer. You're likely to find her stuff in the YA/Teen section of the public library, but her stuff seemed pretty sophisticated at the time, and Maria Nutick (a reviewer with Green Man Review) seems to concur: http://www.greenmanreview.com/book/book_pierce_firebringer.html

I've submitted a hold request at my library for the Firebringer trilogy and The Woman Who Loved Reindeer. Once I read them again, I'll make a proper book/author rec (just in time for summer reading, for those who have that luxury).