Okay, I know that anyone reading this blog (since it's not exactly excitement heavy) probably likes to read. And if you like to read, you probably have a favorite book or twelve. So here's your chance! Tell me what you think I should read!
Edit: All types of books welcome - fiction and non-fiction, genre and literary, short and long, funny and angsty. The more books the merrier!
Thursday, January 2, 2020
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you'd best read doomsday book...AND to say nothing of the dog! :)
i'll think up some other good ones later
I would recommend The Areas of my Expertise, but it's not really a book you read, so much...
pretty soon, I'm gonna deluge you with book recommendations. probably more than you actually want! but at the moment, I only have two (that just popped into my head):
Survival In Auschwitz, by Primo Levi
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed, by Slavenka Drakulic
both are books I read for history class, and both are interesting, engrossing, at times heartbreaking (basically the entirety of SiA is heartbreaking, and shocking, and horrendous). but they are so fascinating, and interesting, and worth reading. I also learned a lot from them, without feeling like it.
(you've probably read a bunch of these already...)
Good Omens by The Gaiman and The Pratchett and Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide, 'cause, you know...
The Dharma Bums by The Kerouac is amazing and a great start if you haven't read any of his other stuff yet.
A.J. Jacobs books are fun, 'though I've only read The Know-It-All so far. They're non-fiction, funny, and you learn all kinds of random stuff.
Beam Me Up Scotty by Michael Guinzburg (which has nothing to do with Star Trek, I promise). It's written from the perspective of a serial killer and possibly one of the funniest books I've ever read.
Defoe's Moll Flanders, because you won't have to watch soap operas ever again.
Pablo Neruda's Memoirs, simply one of the most beautiful books out there.
One of Douglas Coupland's books (I'd recommend Eleanor Rigby or All Families Are Psychotic)
Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth, 'cause <3
And I'm going to be evil and rec Ovid's Metamorphosis, 'cause it's amazing and surprisingly funny.
(Oh, and if you can get your hands on an English copy of Michael Ende's Momo, definitely read that, imho one of the best (not really) children's books ever written)
(NEVER ask me for book recs, I will never shut up)
I agree with the Connie Willis recommendations, and I know you already have some Sharon Shinn, so just read whichever ones of those you haven't yet :). Those are my top rec's, but if more come to mind I'll let you know. Are nonfiction books allowed?
Nonfiction books are most certainly allowed!
You should read the Twelve Houses books, so that I can talk about them with you! :-P
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