And on the non-fiction: for a couple of years, I was doing lists of books, riffing off current popular books. (This was a lot easier when I had the job where I was reading Booklist, one of the publications librarians use for book selection, every month)
So there's a bunch of books in the wiki where I looked at 'this is popular', riffed on it for Alternity, and threw it in a list, so that when we needed a book to mention, we had something handy and didn't have to think it up on the spot.
The Pure Hunger series started as one of those. I'm also rather fond of the "Dorothy L. Sayers was a Muggle, but her books are good, and this series isn't quite as good, but hits enough of the same tropes you might still inhale it"Carrillon Forrest series.
Elise helped with a lot of it, even before she started playing: I have several happy memories of sitting in her livng room while still living in Minneapolis and saying "Book that does X" and her coming up with awesome titles or details Oh! I should mention the name for the original database that had 'random stuff in it' when we were still on Yahoo!, which I think was Gwen's or Flourish's naming? It was called the Room of Requirement. Like you would.
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Date: 2015-09-02 10:18 pm (UTC)So there's a bunch of books in the wiki where I looked at 'this is popular', riffed on it for Alternity, and threw it in a list, so that when we needed a book to mention, we had something handy and didn't have to think it up on the spot.
The Pure Hunger series started as one of those. I'm also rather fond of the "Dorothy L. Sayers was a Muggle, but her books are good, and this series isn't quite as good, but hits enough of the same tropes you might still inhale it"Carrillon Forrest series.
Elise helped with a lot of it, even before she started playing: I have several happy memories of sitting in her livng room while still living in Minneapolis and saying "Book that does X" and her coming up with awesome titles or details
Oh! I should mention the name for the original database that had 'random stuff in it' when we were still on Yahoo!, which I think was Gwen's or Flourish's naming? It was called the Room of Requirement. Like you would.