Book

[celticdragonfly]

I need to find a book to take with me for weekend travelling, and can't decide on one.

Anybody feel like random book recommendations?

Comments

[castiron.livejournal.com]

Rumer Godden, In This House of Brede.

[archangelbeth]

Sorcery and Cecilia and/or sequel.

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

Try the first book in the Benjamin January series, "A Free Man of Color," by Barbara Hambly. It's a murder mystery that takes places in 1830s New Orleans.

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

Oh, and if you do, make a list of the characters as they show up. I love these books, but keeping track of all the characters is a bear. Everyone's related, too.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

What's it like? What genre? Commonly available, if I should squeeze in the time to hit a bookstore tonight?

[selenite.livejournal.com]

We've read the first. She's read the sequel, and then it vanished.

Pout.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Oh, those are excellent. I wonder if I've reread them too recently for them to be good travel books. Hm.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Hm, I was thinking of hitting a bookstore tonight. But between speech therapy being twice as long as usual and exhausting, and finding that Lynette's coming by tonight, it may not happen. We shall see. Sounds interesting, I know you've been enjoying that author.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

oh pooh, we haven't found that? Gah.

[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

Have you read Jasper Fforde's "The Eyre Affair"? If not, it's what I suggest.

[castiron.livejournal.com]

It's a novel about nuns; it's mainstream, but I parse it as speculative fiction because it's about a world that's alien to me *g*. Can't remember whether it's in print; Godden's books have been going in and out of print a lot when I've checked.