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[tigriswolf]

Request the first: I've grown bored with the kind of books I've read for years. What are some books you think I should read and why?

Request the second: leave me a one word prompt and a fandom you like(or just the word, leaving the fandom up to me).

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[dairwendan.livejournal.com]

Jim Butcher's Dresden Files. I don't know if you caught the short lived series, or not. I did, and it was okay, but the books are much better. He's a wizard in contemporary Chicago. And there are a lot of other things in contemporary Chicago you might not have been aware of! *LOL* Very funny as well. This is the first one (http://www.amazon.com/Storm-Front-Dresden-Files-Book/dp/0451457811/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246935905&sr=1-7).

SERRAted Edge Books by Larry Dixon and Mercedes Lackey Stock car racing elves! This is the first one. Better synopsis there! (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Born-to-Run/Mercedes-Lackey/e/9780671721107/?itm=6)

The Morgaine Saga by CJ Cherryh A man, Vanye, finds himself enslaved (or maybe honor bound is a better word) to a time traveling woman warrior, Morgaine. Here are the first three books (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Morgaine-Saga/C-J-Cherryh/e/9780886778774/?itm=1) and here is the fourth (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?WRD=Exile%27s+Gate+cj+cherryh&box=Exile%27s%20Gate%20cj%20cherryh&pos=-1).

PN Elrod's The Vampire Files Jack Fleming is a Chicago PI in the post-prohibition 30s. He's also a vampire. Very film noir! Here are the first three books (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Vampire-Files/P-N-Elrod/e/9780441010905/?itm=1)

I don't know just how different you want to go from what you've been reading, but here are two other series I like.

The Benjamin January Books by Barbara Hambly Benjamin January was an educated, trained and practicing physician in Paris. After he loses his wife he decides to return to him home, New Orleans, where he is simply a 'free man of color'. These are historical mysteries and Benjamin has to walk the line between being the most educated, most intelligent person in the investigation, yet often the one with the least access to facts, clues and scenes of the crime. And if he pisses off the wrong person he could be whipped, hanged, or worse. I'm always like "Ben, dude, wtf is wrong with you? Go back to Paris!" But I keep reading them anyway. *LOL* This is the first book (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/A-Free-Man-of-Color/Barbara-Hambly/e/9780553575262/?itm=1).

Peter Tremayne's Sister Fidelma Mysteries. Fidelma is the sister of a king, a 'daleigh' (detective/lawyer) and a religious sister of the Irish Catholic Church in the 600s. The Roman Catholic Church is just beginning to move in and try to impose it's rules on the more liberal Irish church. When a murder occurs, she is teamed up with Brother Eadulf, of the Roman Catholic Church, to investigate. They remain paired throughout the series. This synopsis sounds dry but the books are good! *LOL* Absolution by Murder is the first book (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Absolution-by-Murder/Peter-Tremayne/e/9780451192998/?itm=4).

Prompt - Murder
Fandom - Gilmore Girls

[tigriswolf]

I'll check those out.