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.

Comments

[isil-helyanwe.livejournal.com]

Hokay, I'm going to list you a bunch of my favourite books, most of which you have probably read:

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
The Catcher in the Rye By J.D. Salinger.
Tithe by Holly Black.
Corbenic by Catherine Fisher.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

You appear to have the same sort of attitude towards literature that I will have once I have to fend for myself.

[isil-helyanwe.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, also anything by Stephen Fry, though I would particularly recommend Moab is my Washpot.

[laliandra.livejournal.com]

I haven't read any Holly Black, and I have heard many excellent things about her from sarahtales, whose judgement I trust implicitly.

Nor have I read Corbenic. What's it about? Why will I love it?

I occasionally worry even myself, I just know that I will end up with a house full of books and little else...

And YES, Stephen Fry, I love him so much. I read Moab is my Washpot and as soon as I finished it started it again!

[isil-helyanwe.livejournal.com]

Corbenic is one of those books which people I've talked to either love or really don't get into. It's a sort of modern parallel of the Arhurian story about the search for the Holy Grail.