request

[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).

Comments

[cattraine.livejournal.com]

Naomi Novik's Temeraire series (dragons).

Wings--SPN

[irnan.livejournal.com]

1) Have you read John Connolly's Charlie Parker books?

2) reboot!trek, inevitable.

[noybusiness.livejournal.com]

The Bartimaeus Trilogy, because it's awesome and hilarious.

angels, Battlestar Galactica

[dreamlittleyo.livejournal.com]

Star Trek: misapprehension

I wish you well in your book search. I barely seem to read anymore unless it's online, so I don't have much to suggest. But good luck!

[blcwriter.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth Moon's Paksennarion Series-- tolkeinish kick ass lady hero, the first one is Sheepfarmer's Daughter.

Robin McKinley's The Blue Sword and the Hero & the Crown, as well as Deerskin. More ladies who kick ass in their ways (although Deerskin has SERIOUS trigger material.)

Lois McMaster Bujold's The Curse of Chalion. Fantastic theology & worldbuilding, a broken male hero who kind of reminds me of Leonard McCoy.

Reboot!Trek-- inevitable.

[siluria]

I read mostly non-fiction so I'm probably not best placed to recommend books, but what do you like to read normally?

Word: Unease, fandom is entirely your choice :)

[tigriswolf]

I've actually read the first two. I got distracted a little ways into the third and have yet to pick it up again.

[tigriswolf]

No, I haven't. What's it about?

[tigriswolf]

What's it about?

Also, I know nothing of "Battlestar Galactica" except what the reboot!Trek crossover told me. Would you like to request another fandom?

[tigriswolf]

Thank you! I did pick up six books recently that I'd have never gotten before, so I hope they're as interesting as they sound.

[tigriswolf]

I've read Deerskin; it was years and years ago, and I'm pretty sure I was much too young. It disturbed me then. I also gave The Blue Sword a try, but didn't finish it.

I'll check out those others.

Someone already requested inevitable and the reboot; would you like something else?

[tigriswolf]

I've spent the last several years reading fantasy/scifi with little sidesteps for a couple westerns. I also enjoy history texts and the odd science book.

But I've grown bored with scifi/fantasy. I was in the bookstore earlier today and none of the options available caught my fancy.

[noybusiness.livejournal.com]

A very snarky djinn and his morally ambiguous and often unwise but learning master. The footnotes are great.

Well, you did say "fandom you like", not "fandom I know". Little deliberate thing on my part. Which crossover was this?

angels, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Torchwood still on your queue?

[tigriswolf]

Okay, the first of the trilogy is now on my hold's list. "Torchwood" is still there, as well.

[noybusiness.livejournal.com]

Cool. Which BSG/Star Trek crossover were you referring to?

[lynzibell.livejournal.com]

Word:Banana

If you like snarky chick lit-ish fantasy-ish stuff there's The Mediator series by Meg Cabot.

[tigriswolf]

Sorry; I'd meant to link you, but the brandnew baby cousin distracted me. I don't remember who wrote it and it's been a few days since it was continued, but if you check the newsletter, you should find it.

[tigriswolf]

Is it better than The Princess Diaries?

[lynzibell.livejournal.com]

Kind of. She's not as annoying as Mia. But it kind of is the same premises. Girl is a mediator for ghosts helping them go to the other side (like ghost whisperer and medium) and there's a cute ghost who was killed in her house and she kind of falls for him.

[tigriswolf]

The first book's been added to my hold's list.

[noybusiness.livejournal.com]

Thanks. You really have to see Battlestar Galactica sometime, if you like religion, mythology, killer robots, and messed up characters. But it's not going to run away.

[sgt-psycho.livejournal.com]

Kappa Child by Hiromi Goto

--Cucumbers, sumo wrestling, alien abduction, and pajamas.

Totally worth it.

The Terror by Dan Simmons

Supernatural take on the Franklin Expedition

The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp

Smalltown north with birds and eighties slang.

Oh, prompt...um...widget!

[noybusiness.livejournal.com]

This is it, right? It's awesome. http://ennyousai-fic.livejournal.com/10981.html

[cats-eye78.livejournal.com]

Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series. There's over a dozen books in the series and they are all amazing! The characterization is so awesome that you expect them to pop off the page and talk to you. It is a fantasy genera with magic and telepathic not-horses.

[tigriswolf]

Yup, that's the one. It really is a good series.