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

[lizzyrose89.livejournal.com]

I've just finished The History of Love by Nicole Krauss, as recommended to me by my dad's stepmum. It's an excellent book.

I'm also half way through Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, which is quite entertaining and full of pompous Georgians being silly.

A really enjoyable book is Making History by Stephen Fry. It's very easy to read, with an interesting premise and highly entertaining style.

Ooh, a fairly thought-provoking book is The Forever War by Joe Haldeman, a sci-fi novel which is sort of a Catch-22 for the Vietnam War, but with time-dilation :-)

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Lizzie! It's great to see you around again! :)

I loved Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, although it's such a huge book - I couldn't take it with me when I was travelling to work because it wouldn't fit anywhere. Thanks for your recommendations - they're all going right onto my very long list of books to read.