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awake

Cultural Inventory Monthly March & April 2009
* Music of the months:
Fleet Foxes. An eponymous first album of this Seattle group was labeled the album of 2008 by Uncut and Billboard. They call their music "baroque harmonic pop jams", I call it dangerously enchanting stuff. So enchanting I do consider to see them at their concert in Berlin in June. Me? Nach Berlin? Now what kind of spell did that? Taste The Winter Hymnal and decide for yourself.

*Movie of the months:
Watchmen. You certainly haven't expect anything else, have you. I actually felt like reading a very good fanfiction. A fan watching another fan paying a fantastic tribute to a work we both love.

*Series of the months:
Doctor Who, third and fourth season. Just clicks with me.

* Book of the months:
Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul (Úchvatná: Odhalte tajemství ženské duše) by John and Stasi Eldredge (translated by Dan Drápal). A book of this Lent. Inspiring and thought provoking. Covering a big topic on a limited space and therefore a little shallow from time to time. But book I've enjoyed very much.

Now this is going to be difficult. So let's make a little separation here...

*English fanfiction of the months - multichaptered:
Silvering Divide by Somigliana. After long long time a story which brought me back fanish joy of reading a good SSHG. Canon compliant (well, EWE), with a very clever and original plot, with real and lovable characters and believably growing relationship.

*English fanfiction of the months - One-shot:
Of Madmen and Englishwomen by harmony_bites.
I decided to catch up with the recent SSHG Exchange - and start from a reliable author. I still owe Harmony a proper comment, so let's try here and now:
Certainly not your ordinary SSHG romance, but one with elaborated settings, background story going a long way to the past, and with sooo well-written characters (and not just the canon people!) Story which is not afraid to face difficult questions (like magic v. religion), story which doesn't forget that scars are still present and won't disappear - even in the middle of a love scene. Did I say I loved it?