booooooooooookses.

[schmerica]

Please to rec me books?

I like nonfiction. I like genre fiction of all kinds. I like funny books and quirky books and books with history or language or books or expatriates or food. I like both brand new books and older books. I read a lot and very quickly, but am easily bored (often, but not exclusively, with mainstream literary fiction). I am not well-read in the categories of YA or romance, and both are large enough that I am wary of guessing on goodness on my own.

Behind the cut tag is the list of the books I have read and enjoyed (that is, I'm kicking off the sucky and mediocre books I finished anyway) since December 2004, for context:

The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie
Miracle and Other Christmas Stories by Connie Willis
Frederica by Georgette Heyer
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The Snake, The Crocodile and the Dog by Elizabeth Peters
The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard
As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Empress of the World by Sara Ryan
A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as a Grotesque Crippling Disease by Cintra Wilson
Grass as His Pillow by Lian Hearn
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States by Bill Bryson
Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer by Chauncey Loomis
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libby Bray

Comments

[terpsichoreslyr.livejournal.com]

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

The Grounding of Group 6 - Julian F. Thompson (my all-time favorite YA book)

Handling Sin - Michael Malone (if you've read and liked A Confederacy of Dunces, you'll like this book - it's got the same feel to it.)

I love all of his Cuddy and Justin detective novels too (First Lady. Uncivil Seasons. Times Witness.) - they are completely different than Handling Sin. I've been very tempted to slash Justin and Cuddy.

The Sweet Potato Queens Book of Love - Jill Connor Browne (very light-weight but cute)

I could keep going and going and going

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

Seconding the Grounding rec.

Like, seconding a LOT. Erica, you have to read it this summer so that I can harass you to write me fic about it.

Er, or just so you can listen to my crazy ramblings about it. One or the other.

[terpsichoreslyr.livejournal.com]

Yay! Someone else who adores that book. I wrote horrible, trite fic about the characters after I first read it ***mumble*** years ago.

Who's your favorite character???

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

Dude, this semester I took a screenwriting class, which turned into adapting, and I used Grounding. It was one of the few books I knew could not possibly grow old.


Favorite character is SO HARD, because it's really the dynamic of all six of them that I adore. Marigold is my favorite to just observe, I think; she's utterly fabulous. But mostly I just like, like, a cohesive GROUP.

I really, really, really want fic after the end of the book. Because... yes. Just yes. So much yes.

*ships mightily*

[terpsichoreslyr.livejournal.com]

No joke. I have so much love for all the characters. My 'after' fics focused on keeping the Group together.

*ships right along with you*

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

The extent to which I want to go to my LJ and start a thread on JUST THIS so that we can talk without spoiling Erica is nearly overpowering.

*attempts to refrain*

...Also, I love the villains. I love them SO MUCH.

*coughs*

[terpsichoreslyr.livejournal.com]

Oh, let's start one... I love them too! LOVE!