30 days of your favorite TV show meme, days 6-8

Catching up in this post as my internet connection has been very spotty.

6) Favorite writer (This is an alternate question, as the original question showed its Doctor Who origins by asking about the best title sequence.)

( Contains very minor non-plot-related S3 references )

7) Most romantic moment

( No S3 spoilers )

8) Favorite character moment (another alternate question)

( No S3 spoilers )

reading!

I haven't done the Wednesday reading meme in ages, so here goes.

What I'm reading now:I'm actually in one of those brief moments between books.

Recently read: I just finished Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl, which I suspect I am the last person in the Anglophone world to read. But in case I'm not, to avoid spoilers I won't go into details, but I'll say that while I admired the book in a technical sense, I didn't actually like it. I know it's very middlebrow or even lowbrow to want to like the characters in a novel, but I do want to, and the only person I liked in this book was Nick's sister Go, who was mostly in the background.

Before that I read the last two of Mike Carey's Felix Castor novels, which were fine, but I thought the conclusion of the final book didnt live up to all the build-up. A lot of loose ends and intriguing hints were just abandoned.

I've also been reading a huge amount of fanfic--I think I mentioned at some point that I'd been in a mood to read stuff in fandoms I don't much care about. So I devoured cesperanza's Stargate Atlantis fic with great enjoyment, than switched over to MCU Captain America fic after seeing The Winter Soldier, but didn't manage to find anything I loved. (My method of finding Captain America fic was to go through the first ten or so pages for the fandom in AO3 and download anything that didn't look terrible. This is a fallible method and recs are still welcome. Actually recs are welcome for SGA fic too.)

I continue to be baffled by the discrepancy between the quality of the canon for Person of Interest and the quality of the fic. The show is mostly good-to-excellent, the fic is mostly conventional or cracky ship fic that often strikes me as not quite in character, and that rarely explores the full possibilities of the universe. Is there a secret treasure trove of POI fic that's not on the AO3 or something? Are people keeping it secret to reduce their digital footprint? /complaining

What I'm reading next: Probably Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. I think I'm novel-ed out for the moment (though I'm still craving fanfic) and more in the mood for nonfiction. So again I will asks for recs, this time for good general nonfiction, such as science books, histories of interesting things, etc.