Wicked girls saving themselves: Cat Valente's Deathless and A Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland

I suspect that most of my friends can be divided into two groups: the friends who'd be delighted by Catherynne M. Valente's The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making and the friends who'd thrill to Cat Valente's Deathless.

( Fairyland: take young girl's quest fantasy, add meta )

( Deathless: dark, adult hilarity in Soviet Russia )

That's the last fun reading until the dissertation is filed, I hope. See you all on the other side, where there will be lots and lots and lots of novels.