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[threeplusfire]

I need to stop consuming entire books in a day, even if it does put me at fifty rather early in the year. I will run out of my carefully hoarded stack. Perhaps I should read some non-fiction, since it's been mostly fiction all year long. (I have Havel's book sitting on a shelf, waiting patiently for me to take it to the Castle and back.) Yesterday I devoured The Seal Wife and today it was Worst Fears. Oddly, both books I bought for a dollar at Half Price and both are first editions.

Perhaps I should read The Red Tree again, since the weather might be imperceptibly shading towards autumn here. I could live with a month or so of gray, honestly. I cook more. Like the chocolate almond chip cookies. More quiche for dinner to use up the duck eggs.

Comments

[bizetsy.livejournal.com]

Are any of these books must-reads? I'm always looking for recommendations. Thanks!

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Well, I would say everything by Caitlin Kiernan, Sergei Lukyananeko, Josef Skvorecky, Glen Cook, Fay Weldon, Peter S. Beagle and Elizabeth Hand.

[bizetsy.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[melyndabelinda.livejournal.com]

I made Quiche Lorraine this weekend. It was yummy.

I feel like a slacker in the reading department. I'm barely pushing 20 books for the year. I blame the lack of decent new fantasy authors. I still can't really enjoy reading non-fiction.

You should come back here if you're looking for cool gray weather. It's been in the 40s every morning for the last week and fall gloom.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

You should read the Glen Cook books on my list. They are superb. Plus he has a ton more that I haven't gotten to yet.

Yay quiche!

I think the best non-fiction are the biographies of people really odd lives.

[brienze.livejournal.com]

If you're at all into the kind of history that's really just stories, I really recommend The Ghost Map. 1491 is another; though it's a bit harder a read, and not linear, it's great if you like to do fantasy worldbuilding in your head. Agri-forestry in the Amazon!

[samostatnost.livejournal.com]

To the Castle and Back is, for me, a great example of Czech writing at its finest; it's really a wonderful read.

[fiatincantatum.livejournal.com]

Have you read any of MK Fisher's books? (M.F.K.Fisher)

You might enjoy some of them, especially the cooking ones :)