Moar Yuletide Recs!

Possession

On the Nature of a Side
I love that this fic is made up of letters and excerpts of books and that it spans the years just as the original novel does. Really nicely done. It's technically a crossover, but I have never heard of the crossover fandom, so I don't think you need to know anything about it to enjoy it.

Princess Bride

The Fighter Grooms
Fezzik/Inigo
Delightfully funny, true to the character voices, and with lovely authorial intrusion.

Dead Poet's Society

hold your soul open for my welcoming
Neil/Todd
Fix-it-fic where Neil lives (the best kind, naturally!).

Loneliness Is a State of Mind
Charlie/Meeks
A different kind of fix-it fic where Neil lives.

Kate and Cecelia by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer

A Conundrum of Charms
This is a lovely, little mystery set just after the first book. Character voices are impeccable.

To Say Nothing of the Goat
This is Kate and Cecelia in different time periods and as characters in different universes; the section where they're Vulcan cousins is my favorite.

All the reading I did while I was away

I got a lovely card from rahirah today. Thank you! :)

I did a lot of reading while we were away for Christmas (six days! wail! too long!).


( cut for a tl;dr review of Vanity Fair and short reviews of Stacy London's book plus the first two Magnus Chase books )