hmm

[schmerica]

It's odd how I seem to go through most of my time all placid and easygoing with most stuff, and then suddenly one morning I'll read something like "Teens aren't very sophisticated thinkers" in a random comment in somebody's lj and feel all stabstabstab.

Which isn't a very sophisticated response, now that I think about it.

Back to work. Can I repeat my urge from yesterday? Seriously, anybody who comments with anything -- not even fic; something to distract or entertain me or *something* from my tedium -- will earn loads of affection from me. You could even rec me books; I need to go to the library this week.

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Also really liked your last F/K...

[anyanwubutler.livejournal.com]

I liked how it was simulataneously utopian and dystopian. It had a wistfulness, smallness that is also largeness that reminds me of Ray Bradbury.

Book recs for somebody who's apprently read *everything*:

Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop

Kushiel books by Jacqueline Carey

Archer's Tale, Vagabond, Heretic by Bernard Cornwell

Wraethru (undoubtedly misspelled) by Storm Constantine

everything by Louise Erdrich

Wild Seed by Octavia Butler, also Parable of the Talents

Julia

Re: Also really liked your last F/K...

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for your comments! I'm really pleased to hear what you thought of it, and I'm glad you liked it.

Plus, books! I liked the Kushiel's series, and some of the Butler (it was odd, though, with the Parables books, because I loved the first, but the second felt weaker, like it really should have been three books and not two). I will definitely check out your recs.

Re: Also really liked your last F/K...

[anyanwubutler.livejournal.com]

If you liked the Kushiel books, I think you'll like Wraethrthu (or whatever) by Constantine & the Black Jewels Trilogy by Bishop *a lot.* But I gotta tell ya, Black Jewels is so dark that I think it's more accurate to say it's bleak. Certainly the first book is that way. Both the Constantine & Bishop have been released in omnibus collections and if you can swing it financially, or the library can, it may be best to read them that way. You won't want to wait around at all to get the next books.
_Wild Seed_ by Butler is different from any of her other stuff. It can be described as fantasy, since it starts in pre-contact Africa and even though it goes a bit into our future the phenomenon is not ever described scientifically. It's the first book in the Patternmaster series. I am *not* rec'ing the whole series.
(Sekrit: If you're able to get a copy of _Wild Seed_ you'll recognize my screen name.)
I think the second Parable book was weaker, too.
Yet another rec: The Sparrow & The Children of God by Mary Doria Russell. Jesuits in space! Good sf, history, theology, anthropology, funny & very, very, very sad.