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Reading Wednesday
I have not read a word so far...
I'm going to ask for authors and recs. I have limited eyesight so it has to be something I can read on my Kindle.
MY preferences are
Mysteries and cozy mysteries,
Funny romances (straight or gay)
Light science fiction
Light fantasy
Poetry . classic moslty but I do like some modern poetry.
Books about writing - similar to Stephen King's On Writing.
I really like the LJ Book Bingo that![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spikedluv posted on her page and I might do that if I get enough recs.
I'm going to ask for authors and recs. I have limited eyesight so it has to be something I can read on my Kindle.
MY preferences are
Mysteries and cozy mysteries,
Funny romances (straight or gay)
Light science fiction
Light fantasy
Poetry . classic moslty but I do like some modern poetry.
Books about writing - similar to Stephen King's On Writing.
I really like the LJ Book Bingo that
spikedluv posted on her page and I might do that if I get enough recs.
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Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen
Cozy mysteries - Six Feet Deep Dish by Mindy Quigley
Four Leaf Cleaver by Maddie Day
fantasy - Together We Burn by Isabel Ibañez
Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco (lgbt, poly)
Urban fantasy Ballad & Dagger by Daniel José Older (YA)
Wretched Waterpark by Kiersten White )middle grade)
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I'm intrigued to recommend you the Cemeteries of Amalo books (there are two, with a third coming) because they are mysteries with a bit of angst in fantasy world, but most of the world building comes in the Goblin Emperor, which is perhaps outside your genre interests, tho an excellent book about a young man deciding how he's going to use the power that has suddenly come into his hands, and choosing compassion and hope over revenge. There is a short story set between between Witness for the Dead and Grief of Stones that might be a good place to start if you want to see if it's to your tastes - https://www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/min-zemerins-plan
The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard is a great novella - space detective works with a sentient ship to solve a mystery, vaguely historical
Oh, Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light is gay, historical, moderately cozy, and a mystery - plus great fun to read.
Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard is a very slow and cozy book - it is a bit hard to pin down the genre but it's got a fantastic main character coming into a sense of his own self worth and value in the community he's from and squaring it with years he's given to civil service for an Emperor who is both a worthy ruler and also a deeply lonely person. It's super long.
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Mysteries and cozy mysteries - I love Barbara Michaels. Ditto the Flavia de Luce books by Alan Bradley. Also, the Mrs Pollifax books! Author is Dorothy Gilman.
Funny romances (straight or gay) - Georgette Heyer. My favorites are Cotillion and Arabella. A Civil Case is another favorite Heyer, but it's less funny. Susan Juby has a pair of books, Home to Woefield (aka The Woefield Poultry Collective - the Canadian edition has a different name) and Republic of Dirt. Both are about four mismatched characters on a worn-out farm in British Columbia.
Light science fiction - I don't know how light they are (for hard science fiction), but Heinlein's juveniles are great. I've practically read mine to pieces.
Poetry I don't read so much of, but I'm fond of T.S. Elliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Oh, and I have an Emily Dickenson reader. I love her as well.
Books about writing - there's one called Spunk And Bite (a take-off on Strunk and White). Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott (actually, any of her non-fiction is great. Operating Instructions in my go-to baby shower gift). Eats, Shoots, And Leaves is another book on writing.
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