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What I've just finished

The Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin, about which I won't say anything because it's for historicalyafen. Wait for August 1.

What I'm reading now

I'm on Chapter 55 of Vanity Fair. Rawdon Crawley has just learned he's the governor of Coventry Island. Becky is a glorious character and I did feel for Amelia when she sent her son to live with his grandfather.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin. See above.

Avi - Beyond the Western Sea
Ugly Betty
That 70s Show (see icon)
Kate Douglas Wiggin - Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Now Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm isn't on the giant masterlist, but I talked about it with one Yuletider once. If zero people offer Rebecca, I may replace it with either The Demon's Lexicon or the Gentleman Bastard sequence (though both pairings are kind of doing it wrong).

ROSF is typical turn of the century girl lit - Rebecca's the third of seven fatherless children and is sent to live with her maiden aunts, who are pretty much Aunt Elizabeth and Aunt Laura from Emily of New Moon. The whole book is very Montgomery-ish. There's a second book called New Chronicles of Rebecca, which isn't quite a sequel because most of it takes place before the end of ROSF. Rebecca and Emma Jane have a femslashy Romantic Two Girl Friendship. There is some May/December canon het. Both books are in the public domain.

I've talked enough about Beyond the Western Sea, haven't I?