Book Recc post.

[dragonjournal]

Alright, so let me lay this out:

I will read just about anything. I like a lot of different things. I tend to read more fantasy than anything else, but will read just about any fiction. I've gotten into a lot of YA lately and seem to be churning my way through that. Nonfiction I'm very particular on and will read what I want there.

What I want is a list of books/series that you my dear readers think that I should look into. Give me a To Be Read pile. I don't really have one.

Currently I have the following out from the library:

The Warrior Heir Cinda Williams*
The Wizard Heir Cinda Wiliams
Graceling Kristin Cashore
Beyond the Valley of Thorns Patrick Carman
Wolverine: Weapon X Marc Cerasini
The Dark Griffin K.J. Taylor
I am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas Adam Roberts
Shadowfall James Clemens
The Priest of Blood Douglas Clegg

So, that's what I have out right now.

I have read Mercedes Lackey - pretty much everything, really and don't really care for Anne McCaffrey. But, give me books. Again, I'll read just about anything and have plans to be buying the books of a few people I know that are now published. (Katey, looking at you, dude!)

*Just finished this one like... ten minutes ago. It's a good, solid, book and I think a lot of people would enjoy it. There's a wizard society that lives amongst us and they hold tournaments using those born with 'warrior stones' to fight their battles. I found it interesting and will be getting the third book The Dragon Heir when I can.

Comments

[dragonjournal]

You know, I specifically thought of you when recc'ing The Warrior Heir. Because my thought was: E would get into this, start coming up with wilder theories than I have and then there would be FANDOM.

Which, of course, is how you are indelibly engraved on my brain. (Also, unless the other two books start giving backstory? MY BRAIN HAS BACKSTORY SO MUCH BACKSTORY for a few characters.)

But thank you ever so much! I need to reread JF because I haven't in a while, and thus this must be rectified. :D

[etcetera_cat]

*perks up ears and adds titles to the looooong list of "shit I should read"*

I should possibly be upset that many people seem to pimp me into things specifically because they want to witness the inevitable avalanche of wild-mass-guessing and ridiculousd ideas for fusions, but I'd totally be lying because in addition to being freaking hilarious, it also means that I can get away with being almost the laziest fan out there in terms of finding new things :D

*finds her niche and occupies it*

[etcetera_cat]

You know how the TN books are ridiculously meta fanfiction? One of Our Thursdays actually goes further. Like. The start of the book is ridiculously meta about the whole of the rest of the TN canon and then we actually go to the fanfiction achipelago of the new BookWorld. Like, there's meta and then there's the latter part of this book, which is like some kind of freaking metafiction singularity trapped between ink and paper (also, JF manages to not completely suck, despite having had previous form being a douche about fandom)

[dragonjournal]

O_o

I need to reread them. like... yesterday. But it'll probably be next week before I get to the library again. Because if I go more than once a week, I'd drown under the pile. However, I might be a mean, mean mom and go without the kids like, next week when I've whittled down my pile a little just to go and browse. Eleven year olds are not conducive to browsing sometimes.

Oh! Another book for you! Graceling. Girl has magic powers, has been using them in one direction, figures out there's another direction they can be taken, doesn't want to get married/have kids, runs this group that handles the 'right things to do' under a whole bunch of kings' noses... :D

[etcetera_cat]

Oooooo *adds*

If I were you, I'd go for a full reread of the TN books because man, but there's some funky over-reaching plot arcs going on through the whole series. I've maybe made it my policy to reread the series prior to starting each new book, which was kinda ridiculous with the last book what with it being book 6, but it was undeniably awesome (although I did have to break up the absurbist metafiction with my beloved non-fiction in order that my brains didn't leak out of my ears).