She is too fond of books and it has addled her brain...

[laliandra]

Hey m'dears!

I hope you had a Christmas as awesome as you are (so, VERY).

I had a most delightful time. I have Beedle the Bard to get reading and then discuss with SQ peeps. I have had the thremedon LJ spotlight week of sheer EPICNESS to enjoy. I will still have time to read some more and maybe write some.

Also, I have the present of BOOK. Let me explain. A few weeks ago I related the following conversation to my Dad.

Wren: I have no idea how you have the time or money to buy books from Amazon.
Me: I'm a freaky speed reader. And I've worked it out, I can afford it if I don't go out at all for a week or two.
Nat: Seriously my love, you fail at being a Young Person. Books over going out, honestly...
Wren: Oh no, Lal would prioritise food over books if we didn't stop her and make her buy groceries.
Nat: So what you're saying is that my girlfriend isn't old before her time, but actually crazy.

So my Dad gave me an Amazon voucher saying "buy books with this and eat!"

So, Amazon vouchers to spend, and about a thousand ideas what to spend them on. So, I'm recruiting you guys!

What would you recommend? What book would you say "this. You must read this, you will Fall In Love with it..

If you are feeling particularily delightful, I would like 3 recs - 1. Fantasy 2. Gen Fiction 3. Non fiction.

And I would be more than happy to recommend books to you, because I am a hopeless Bookworm, Bibliophile, Fanatic and Bookaholic.

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[mcollinknight.livejournal.com]

Where there are book rec requests, there is Colline (don't starve! read!).

1:a- The Lies of Locke Lamora, by Scott Lynch. Wonderful characters, great imagination, and loads of twists (NO-ONE IS SAFE. NO-ONE). Honestly, there was at least something on every page to make me laugh or go "THAT. THAT IS AWESOME."
b- The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman (or, if you haven't read anything by him, start with Neverwhere). Really cool premise for a book.

2:a- The Pact, by Jodi Picoult. A girl dies; she either committed suicide as part of a suicide pact she made with her boyfriend, or was killed by her boyfriend. Very well-written, engrossing, and interesting.
b- A Complicated Kindness, by Miriam Toews. A Mennonite girl trying to come to terms with the disappearance of her mother and sister. Lots of cool symbolism, and a great book (though it may require two readings; everyone I've met who has read it hated it the first time, and loved it the second).

3:a- A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah. A heartwrenching account of how a regular boy becomes a child soldier. Very well-written (I haven't finished it yet... I hope there's a happy ending).
b- 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa, by Stephanie Nolen. It is what it sounds like: little windows into personal stories that also show the plights of larger demographics, like truckers or grandmothers, as well as how individual countries are faring and how we are failing and succeeding. It is honestly an amazing and incredible book, read it if you read none of the others.

[laliandra.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I have heard good things about Scott Lynch. I think he will have to go on my shortlist. The Graveyard Book was already on it, I listened to Neil Gaiman read the whole thing aloud on his book tour (at mousecircus.com) and Neverwhere is on there too, because we all need our own Marquis...

My mum really liked Jodi Picoult, some of her stuff frankly disturbed me as a younger person, but maybe I should give it a go now.

i need to read more non fiction and I was relying on you for recs. So thanks! Again!

Oh man, I do not think my vouchers will stretch far enough...

Today I am recommending la Fee Carabine by Daniel Pennac. Funny and French!