Reading Wednesday

[alexcat]

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 spikedluv posted on her page and I might do that if I get enough recs.

Comments

[kitewithfish]

I really enjoyed the Page and Sommers series by Cat Sebastien - it's a spy and a country doctor solving a mystery, and falling in love. Gentle with post-war trauma, hopeful, English countryside.

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.