If you want light/fluffy/childrens - Patricia C. Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles (are wonderful. More serious - Interface Masque by Sharianne Lewitt is an interesting read. I may be gearing back up for a Margaret Atwood kick, so I'll recommend Oryx and Crake.
Also Kage Baker's Company novels, anything by Dianna Wynne Jones (start with Deep Secret, it's probably my favorite and is a very light read), Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders, and Garth Nix's Abhorsen trilogy...
I've got all four Twilight books in PDF form. And damn it, I've tried to read 'em, but just can't do it end to end. *twitch* the only other book I think that's the case for may be Catherine Asaro's The Charmed Sphere, which, now that I think about it, I hated...
Non-fiction, try Paul Theroux - he's a travel writer. The Great Railway Bazaar, about travelling on train from England to Japan and back is wonderful. I'm currently reading his sort-of sequel (Ghost Train To The Eastern Star), about doing the same journey 30-some years later. Thus far, pretty damned good. If you're at all interested in whaling, or Moby Dick, In The Heart of The Sea is good. (And I'm probably just reccing it because I'm looking at it. *grin*)
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Date: 2009-04-09 11:18 pm (UTC)If you want light/fluffy/childrens - Patricia C. Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles (are wonderful. More serious - Interface Masque by Sharianne Lewitt is an interesting read. I may be gearing back up for a Margaret Atwood kick, so I'll recommend Oryx and Crake.
Also Kage Baker's Company novels, anything by Dianna Wynne Jones (start with Deep Secret, it's probably my favorite and is a very light read), Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders, and Garth Nix's Abhorsen trilogy...
I've got all four Twilight books in PDF form. And damn it, I've tried to read 'em, but just can't do it end to end. *twitch* the only other book I think that's the case for may be Catherine Asaro's The Charmed Sphere, which, now that I think about it, I hated...
Non-fiction, try Paul Theroux - he's a travel writer. The Great Railway Bazaar, about travelling on train from England to Japan and back is wonderful. I'm currently reading his sort-of sequel (Ghost Train To The Eastern Star), about doing the same journey 30-some years later. Thus far, pretty damned good. If you're at all interested in whaling, or Moby Dick, In The Heart of The Sea is good. (And I'm probably just reccing it because I'm looking at it. *grin*)