Summer Reading

[writebrained]

I have like...four books on my summer reading list. I need more

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[sphinxfeather]

"Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" This book is awesome, and I'm recommending it because if I recall aright you enjoy 7th Sea. This book is basically Jane Austin with Mad Jack O'Bannon thrown in (I'm not kidding...Napoleonic War/early 1800's England, magic is now very rare but a couple of magicians arise to try and bring Magic back to England. And then having to contend with the schemes of the "Raven King", a human child who got spirited away to Faerie and became an insanely powerful...and insane...Faerie King that has been popping in and out of England for the past few centuries) It's not quite like Jane Austen in that it gets a bit heavier and darker as the book goes on, but it's the same period and the type of social interaction is similar. You should read it

[shenth]

The Berlin Stories, by Christopher Isherwood. It's about the years before the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, told from the perspective of a young English writer. "The Last of Mr. Norris" starts slow and gets progressively funnier. "Goodbye to Berlin" is much more tragic. They're a lovely mix for memoir-disguised-as-fiction (he changes his name for some reason, even though it's reeeeally obvious the author is the narrator). I loved it enough to run a Changeling game in Berlin.

[zoogeek]

This may be a foolish suggestion (for how obvious it might be for you), but have you read The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, by Roberto Calasso? It's a really excellent fictionalization and analysis of Greek myths.