Fiction recommendations.

[mrissa]

I've been going through the fiction on my library list at an alarming rate, because I'm not interspersing it with nonfiction at the moment. Don't know when I'll get my ability to read nonfiction back, but it doesn't seem to go well with the vertigo. So in the meantime: what fiction should I read? Recommend something, or more than one something. If I've already read it, that's okay; I'll tell you, and you can recommend something else, or not, as you like.

I read books aimed at any age of person. The main genre constraint I have is that I tend to bounce hard off genre romance, and horror and traditional westerns are not generally my cup of tea.

In other news, Ista is really not at all thrilled with this entire holiday, and she's alternating between running around wanting to figure out what those noises are and trying to stay hidden and safe behind the living room couch.

I watched the first half of Good Night and Good Luck with today's workout. Seemed appropriate. Happy Independence Day, all those of you who celebrate it today.

Comments

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

The upcoming Kage Baker is quite good, The House of the Stag. I'd be happy to send you my copy of it--I'm done with it and should be getting a nice hardback when the time comes. It's fantasy and is very different than her SF--much less manic and frenetic.

Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner series is a lot of fun and the fourth one just came out. I've an extra of that one, too.

Er, can't think of anything else that I really liked and is out--my brain has just shifted from September to October.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Heh. Lots of good stuff coming out later this year, yep. I liked the previous Kage Baker fantasy I read. Haven't read any Lynn Flewelling yet.

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. I have Half a Crown to read tomorrow.

Anyhow, if you'd like the ARC of the Baker, it's yours (I just need your address). And I really like Lynn Flewelling a lot--both the Nightrunner series and the Tamir Trilogy are set in the same world, but centuries apart and the feel is, IMO, very different--the Tamir books are much darker (not that the Nightrunner ones are all happiness and light, mind).

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Same world but centuries apart is of interest to me, since my brain apparently won't be stopped from doing that.