call for recs

[tigriswolf]

So, I’ve been reading more than anything lately. So far, it’s all been rereads of my favorites, as I’d planned to read through my entire bookcase to see if I still wanted all the books on it. I have quite a few library books that I haven’t read before, but I’ll take recs, if anyone has anything in particular they think I’d enjoy.

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[caffienekitty]

I think you may have read the Vorkosigan Books by Lois McMaster Bujold, and may have also read "Curse of Chalion" by her, but I'm reccing both in case you haven't (my memory is awful :-( ).

Curse of Chalion is my favorite fantasy novel by anyone, ever, and Miles Vorkosigan helps me feel like I can keep going even in some very dark times.

[tigriswolf]

I have not read any of those. Adding to the list!

[tigriswolf]

So, I'm 3 chapters into Shards of Honor and just... I can't sink into it, I guess. Sorry. :(

[caffienekitty]

No worries, Shards of Honour can be difficult to get into. I read it well after I'd started reading the Miles books, so I had more background/future knowledge for the Cordelia books. They've got a very different feel to them.

Thanks for giving them a try! :-)

[tigriswolf]

Yeah, I have this unfortunate need to read/watch things in chronological order. (The only time I break this rule is when I truly cannot stand most of the show and am only watching for a certain character - like Highlander and Methos, and Bones and Sweets. But I can't break it for books.)

[caffienekitty]

Oh me too usually. With this series I wound up reading a book quite far along in it first because I was haunting the sci fi section of the library at the time. that was the one they had in and it wasn't marked as book x of the series because the way Bujold writes, they're all self contained, just with continuity. read it, loved it then backtracked for the rest.

Very much not my usual habit with books though. Reading later books in the series before earlier books in most series' is too much like reading spoilers. XD

[mahmfic.livejournal.com]

Genres?

[tigriswolf]

Anything but romance. That includes fantasy romance or adventure romance or whatever.

(If romance happens during the course of the plot, that's fine; but no romance that the plot revolves around.)

[mahmfic.livejournal.com]

• a dirty job by christopher moore
• tough shit by kevin smith
• stories i only tell my friends by rob lowe
• running with scissors by augsten burroughs
• shutter island by dennis lehane
• the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by douglas adams
• the pirates! in an adventures with scientists by gideon defoe
• napalm and silly putty by george carlin
• paddle your own canoe by nick offerman
• flowers in the attic by vc andrews
• the kite runner by khaled hosseini
• the mists of avalon by marion zimmer bradley
• abraham lincoln: vampire hunter by seth grehame-smith note: this is so cracky but i still love it. it helped me with the stress of my senior thesis on his assassination.
• the twenty-one balloons by william pene debois
• bridge to terabitha by katherine peterson
• fortunately, the milk by neil gaiman
• it's always something by gilda radner
• jeannie out of the bottle by barabara eden
• bossypants by tina fey
• the lovely bones by alice sebold
• evil under the sun by agatha christie (anything by her really)

if you are okay with plays here are some others:
• dancing at lughnasa by brian friel
• the crucible by arthur miller
• frankenstien by nick dear
• august: osage county: tracy letts
• buried child by sam shepard

sorry if you have read some/most/any/all of these.

goddamn i really need to get back into reading actual books.

[tigriswolf]

I have not read most of those, actually.

However, another note: no child death or animal death, if possible. Or horror. Which ones should I remove?

[mahmfic.livejournal.com]

okay let me think cause some of these i haven't read in ages.

okay axe:
• buried child by sam shepard
• frankenstien by nick dear
• the lovely bones by alice sebold
• bridge to terabitha by katherine peterson
• the kite runner by khaled hosseini
• stories i only tell my friends by rob lowe
• shutter island by dennis lehane
• it's always something by gilda radner
• running with scissors by augsten burroughs
• jeannie out of the bottle by barabara eden
• abraham lincoln: vampire hunter by seth grehame-smith
• flowers in the attic by vc andrews

there's a few on there that i am not 100% sure about, but i'd rather be careful. i took off any that mention miscarriages as well. omg why the fuck do so many feature that shit!?

here's some supplements:
• the wizard of oz by l. frank baum
• william shakespeare's star wars: verily a new hope by ian doescher(this one is great on audio book)
• the sweet potato queens' first big-ass novel by jill connor browne
• catch me if you can by frank w. abagnale
• i have lived a thousand years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
• al capone does my shirts by gennifer choldenko
• Island of the Sequined Love Nun by christoher moore
• catch-22 by joseph heller
• ozma of oz by l. frank baum (tbh this is the best of the oz series)
• souls set free by kimmie easley
• grape expectations by caro freely
• death of a salesman by arthur miller

again, sorry if you have read some/most/any/all of these.

[tigriswolf]

Thank you!

[noybusiness.livejournal.com]

I'm fond of The Emerald City of Oz. There's a really funny segment.