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[skoosiepants]

I have decided that I am going to try reading actual paper books this summer! Instead of fanfiction! I don't know if it'll work, but we shall see. So, anyway, you should tell me what's good to read! I like comedy, teens, romance, time-travel, dogs, horses, sci-fi, historical fiction, etc. I don't like anything heavy or depressing. I don't

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[tacittype]

Have you ever read To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis? Because a) it is awesome, and b) comedy, teens, romance, time-travel, dogs, horses, sci-fi, historical fiction. It's just missing teenaged horses.

ETA to try harder to make the bold bits bold. HTML, why hast thou forsaken me?

[skoosiepants]

oooooo, that looks awesome, thank you!

[frogy]

For teen romance, you're not going to get any better than David Levithan's Boy Meets Boy. Also, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.

[aurora_84]

Oh hey, I didn't know Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist was a book! Cool.

[frogy]

It's a much better book than it is a movie. You should definitely read it!

[mywholecry]

I second Boy Meets Boy. It's extremely sweet, and the only crying I did at the end was happy, flaily crying.

[royalneptune]

Have you read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susannah Clarke? It's wordy, and hefty, but brilliant. As if someone smushed Jane Austen and the world of Harry Potter together. And her collection of short stories (The Ladies of Grace Adieu) is genius and, I found, a lot easier to read then Jonathan Strange.

Also, I'm obsessed with Generation Kill, which not only is a great book, but also an HBO mini series with a lot of hot guys in uniform. Winkwinknudgenudge.

[skoosiepants]

Wooo, I haven't read any of these, thanks!

[bunniewabbit]

For just a really fun, engrossing read, I'd recommend the entire Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. Man, they're enjoyable, and they never fail to make me grin and even laugh, though they can also be sort of intense. If you give them a shot, make sure you read them in order, though -- in the early books, the stories are mostly self-contained, but an overall story arc starts to become apparent by about the third book.

[skoosiepants]

awesome! I haven't read those before, ty!

[bergann]

My standard recommendations: The Gentlemen Bastards sequence by Scott Lynch (currently only two books out - The Lies of Locke Lamora and Red Seas Under Red Skies), The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Any and all books by John Scalzi (though the one I recommend the most is The Android's Dream).

The Gentleman Bastards sequence are my favourites - it's like Ocean's 11 only better and more realistic and funny.

I also recommend Making History by Stephen Fry. Superpowers by David J. Schwartz. I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak.

[skoosiepants]

yay, thank you! all of these are new to me :)