Meme part 3
Jan. 15th, 2010 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
giefu7 Days of Happy/Good/Generally Joy-Inducing Things
day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy
Okay, let's try to sound a little smarter than yesterday (not hard!). I'm recommending a book and a fanfic here, and they're both kindasorta related.
This land (is my land) by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ladylisse
This is one of the first Hetalia fanfics I ever read (it may even be the very first) and it remains one of my absolute favourites. It was written shortly after Obama was elected, and deals with America and his leaders- his history, and how he relates to them. Pretty much everything I've ever written for the fandom aspires to this level. Her other Hetalia work is just as good, and all of it is lovely genfic, which you really can't find enough of anywhere.
And in real life dead-tree format, we have America, Empire of Liberty by David Reynolds.
(this is the hardcover, my copy is paperback and looks a bit different)
I am really interested in history. I suppose that kind of goes without saying seeing what I'm interested in, but it bears repeating- I LOVE HISTORY. I also have a depressingly small amount of knowledge outside of 1940s Germany, thanks in part to a Nazi-obsessed secondary education. So my spare reading consists mostly of manga and trying to fill this huge gulf where historical knowledge should be. What I love about this book is that it presents its information in bite-sized chapters of five or six pages under an overarching title (like 'Natives and Europeans'), so I can read a section before bed and still learn something. Also one of the sections I just read was called 'New France Astride America's Heartland'. Phnarr phnarr.
day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy
Okay, let's try to sound a little smarter than yesterday (not hard!). I'm recommending a book and a fanfic here, and they're both kindasorta related.
This land (is my land) by
ladylisse This is one of the first Hetalia fanfics I ever read (it may even be the very first) and it remains one of my absolute favourites. It was written shortly after Obama was elected, and deals with America and his leaders- his history, and how he relates to them. Pretty much everything I've ever written for the fandom aspires to this level. Her other Hetalia work is just as good, and all of it is lovely genfic, which you really can't find enough of anywhere.
And in real life dead-tree format, we have America, Empire of Liberty by David Reynolds.
(this is the hardcover, my copy is paperback and looks a bit different)
I am really interested in history. I suppose that kind of goes without saying seeing what I'm interested in, but it bears repeating- I LOVE HISTORY. I also have a depressingly small amount of knowledge outside of 1940s Germany, thanks in part to a Nazi-obsessed secondary education. So my spare reading consists mostly of manga and trying to fill this huge gulf where historical knowledge should be. What I love about this book is that it presents its information in bite-sized chapters of five or six pages under an overarching title (like 'Natives and Europeans'), so I can read a section before bed and still learn something. Also one of the sections I just read was called 'New France Astride America's Heartland'. Phnarr phnarr.
