i have two favors to ask

[tsuki_no_bara]

a. what are you all reading? recommend me something! i'm not a fan of urban fantasy/paranormal (so, like, no werewolves or other shifters, vampires, angels, demons, fairies, etc) but offhand i can't think of anything else i'd automatically say no to.... and i don't have an e-reader so, you know, it's gotta be something i can get in print. so

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[thistle_dear]

I think your link is a bit off for the cozy =P

[tsuki_no_bara]

yes, yes it is. >.< fixed now.

[dear_tiger]

Books! :D I'm trying to read Middlesex, brought over from an airport, and now I'm thinking of donating it to the local library because the thing is insufferable. Apologies if you've read it and loved it or something. The flowery, poetic, would-be-purple-if-it-wasn't-so-expertly-done style is driving me nuts, and coming of age is generally not my thing. If that's your thing, the book is objectively good. AND I will now forever remember what 5-alpha reductase deficiency is, which is good because it's probably on board exams.

Okay, that was an anti-rec. Have you ever gotten around to reading Connie Willis's Blackout? We talked about it once. That was very good and not sad at all. I definitely prefer Passage but it made me bawl like a baby. Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King was awesome, if you like his books. It has a wonderfully colorful female character. Also, because there are people around who haven't read Gaiman's American Gods, that book is, hands down, my absolute all-times favorite. Oh, and Neil Gaiman is about to release a new

[tsuki_no_bara]

i have not read blackout! but i love connie willis. and it sounds vaguely familiar but i can't remember what you said about it. >.< i have however read american gods because hasn't everyone? :D (i kind of want to wait for the ocean at the end of the lane to come out in paperback because i don't want to spend the money on a hardcover, but i have a bunch of his books in hardcover so at least it would match.) summer of night sounds almost like it could be a spielberg movie - did you see super 8? - but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

[dear_tiger]

Nah, we were just talking about Connie Willis in general, and it was before I read Blackout. I promised to report back and failed! But here, reporting back: good book, still not as fabulous as Passage. You know, apparently, not everyone read American Gods! I just recently discovered a heathen on my f-list. And I'm totally with you about wanting a paperback (because I like them far better and because all of my Gaiman books except for one are paperback) but maaaan, it's a Gaiman novel! Would be torture to wait. Super 8 was something about aliens, no? Never seen it :D But Summer of Night is just a very cool horror story, if you like those.

[tsuki_no_bara]

super 8 was about a bunch of pre-teens (i think they were twelve) who are shooting a movie (on super-8 film, hence the name :D ) and witness a fantastic train wreck - and catch it on film - and then there's an alien. i liked it.

[thistle_dear]

I can't think of anything non-urban fantasy that I've read lately. I've really gotten into Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid series, which sounds ridiculous but is very funny, very well-written and the Irish Wolfhound is adorable. But it's urban fantasy. On the bright side, they do kill a lot of it. =D If you like high fantasy, Tanya Huff's Quarters series is still a favorite read even past my teens and twenties. If I'm still reading something 20 years later without wincing, I tend to consider that a good sign.

*looks at bookshelves* Yeeah, I don't see anything that isn't fantasy or sci fi based. And all the sci fi is Douglas Adams and Spider Robinson.

[tsuki_no_bara]

i've never read any tanya huff but i wouldn't say no to high fantasy out of hand. i know a lot of people really like her books, so she's clearly doing something right. and i did used to read a shit-ton of fantasy....

mmm, douglas adams.

[justhuman]

I'm reading comics at the moment.

I've been trying to catch up on Black Widow, natch. But! I took an on-line Gender Through Comics class recently and can rec you a couple of books that are outside the superhero genre. Y: The Last Man and Saga. Brian K Vaughan is the author of both and very much plays with and explores gender roles throughout

[tsuki_no_bara]

oh man, i love saga. i pimp it to strangers in the comic shop. :D and i don't tend to think anyone else i know reads the same comics i do, so i'm all ^_^ that you read it too. never read y: the last man, tho.

[justhuman]

Yay~ Someone will know what I'm squeeing about :-D

Y: is absolutely worth it. I've been trying to moderate my spending a Comixology and then a dozen issues are inhaled in three days.

[fleurrochard]

I'm reading Mary Ann Shaffer's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Poe Society right now, a novel in letters. It plays just after WWII, it's all about people and books and it is wonderful. I don't think I ever want it to end. <3

[ephemera]

it starts out just completely lovely, and then gets *better* - fab book, rec heartily seconded!