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

[nesmith.livejournal.com]

U.S. Grant's memoirs (I know, totally boring, but he's actually a very good writer), and Confessions of a Yakuza are the two I'm working on.

Also, The People of the Book is really good.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thanks for those! They sound different from the stuff I normally read and that's a very good thing.

[nesmith.livejournal.com]

I picked up Grant's memoirs after reading about them in the book Grant and Twain, which had its weak spots but really gave a lot of detail about how Grant got to writing his memoirs while he was dying of cancer.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

I just looked at the first page of People of the Book on Amazon and realised that it's actually a book I was interested in reading a while back. Thanks for refreshing my memory there!

I'm really glad you recommended more non-fictionish sort of stuff because I have been straying across from fiction lately and enjoying it a lot. Hopefully I'll be able to pick these books up somewhere.

[nesmith.livejournal.com]

Most bookstores should have Grant's memoirs in their Civil War section. My local Borders had three different versions, and I imagine you could get a really good, cheap copy from Amazon. :)