Praise! Your! Fandoms! Get others interested!

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Hey, everyone! It's Praise Your Fandom time!

Get people into your canon! Tell them what's awesome about it!

Tell them where to find it!

Tell them ALL ABOUT IT!

Please use this format:

<b>Fandom/Canon Name:</b>
<b>What's awesome about it:</b>
<b>Where to find:</b>


Thank you and have a great yuletide!


(ALSO: Please feel free to ask for specific recs too! Like post a thread going 'hey I'm looking for canons with bisexual leads' or something!)

Comments

Re: The Ramsay Scallop - Frances Temple

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I've never met anyone else who's read it! Oh, this is an exciting moment. ♥

Re: The Ramsay Scallop - Frances Temple

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Gosh, I must have read it half a dozen times. I've met a couple people who have done the walk to Santiago del Compostela and I'm pretty jealous, even though I'm sure the experience is awfully different now! It wasn't until college that I realized it was kind of a young people's Canterbury Tales--there I was in Chaucer class thinking "wait, the Wife of Bath's tale sounds awfully familiar..."

[ar]

Oh, my gosh, me, too. I've gone on one pilgrimage, and tbh The Ramsay Scallop was part of my inspiration. I feel like actually going to Santiago de Compostela would be amazing. :( I also didn't put together the Canterbury Tales comparison until a lot later, either, lol.

Speaking of young people's Canterbury Tales, one of the Newbery honor books from 2016 is exactly such a thing. It's called The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and their Holy Dog, and while Adam Gidwitz is going for a much different tone than Frances Temple (there are exponentially more farting dragons in The Inquisitor's Tale), he does a marvelous job creating another introduction to medieval life and culture. It was my favourite book of 2016, so I can recommend it whole-heartedly. ♥ I'm not sure I'm going to request it this year, but I've nominated it, just in case I change my mind.

[eccentric_hat]

Oh thank you! I've been in kind of a mood for young people's adventure stories lately so this is good timing. (E.g. after years and years of recommendations I've suddenly decided it's time to read Megan Whalen Turner.)

I vaguely associate The Ramsay Scallop with Monica Furlong's Wise Child and Juniper, too, probably because those three are the only middle-grade novels I know where a character could plausibly mention Pelagius.