Will dance for books

[katiefoolery]

Welcome back and congratulations to everyone on surviving Christmas. I hope it was fun/crazy/lovely/hot/snowy/filled with family/filled with friends/filled with food/tick whichever apply. Now you can all rest in preparation for doing it all over again next year.

But now, we must move on to real life. And in my real life, a terrible situation is enduring: I do not have a book to read.

I need a book to read.

Neeeeeeeeeeeed.

Therefore, I am turning to my ever-reliable and intelligent and gorgeous and wonderful and have I flattered you all enough yet? flist. Please, recommend me a book. Recommend more than one book. Any genre, any style, old, new, fiction, non-fiction, one you wrote yourself... I don't care. Feed my need for books!

There'll be some left-over chocolate-coated peanuts in it for you all. :D

Comments

[everydayjoy.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly you have read these a thousand times over, but Roald Dahl's autobiographies, Boy and Going Solo, are enchanting.

Also: Rosemary Sutcliff. Everything from her pen. Everything.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Actually, I haven't read the Roald Dahl autobiographies, so I shall add them to my list. Thank-you!

I have to agree with you about Rosemary Sutcliff - I love her books! She has a real talent for making you feel as though you're back in the past, living along with her characters. Love them.

[everydayjoy.livejournal.com]

Oh, hurrah!

(I always feel quite sure that, whenever I recommend anything to a voracious reader, she will certainly have already read it. Nice to know you haven't read the Dahl childhood books yet. I think you will be in for a treat :D).

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

It's hard to tell sometimes, isn't it? The last time I asked for book recs, elfie_chan went to the trouble of writing a list of about half a dozen books... all of which I'd read. I just figure it means we share the same good taste.

[everydayjoy.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! Great minds think alike :).