Books 2010: burning and killing and legal wrangles

[hawkwing_lb]

Books 2010: 19-20

Clearly, this is a bad year for reading...


19. Njal's Saga, Wordsworth Classics Edition.

Lots of killing and legal wrangling. I'm not entirely sure I approve, but it's interesting.


20. Steven Brust, Iorich.

Brust is always good. I can't quite escape feeling that the last handful of Vlad books - since Issola, perhaps - are getting progressively more uncomfortable.

Or possibly I really need to read something utterly fluffy lately, and I'm having a hard time finding such a thing.

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Yeah. My head's in entirely the wrong place, lately. For everything.

Comments

[jennygadget.livejournal.com]

"Or possibly I really need to read something utterly fluffy lately, and I'm having a hard time finding such a thing."

I would suggest the Babymouse books (most especially this one (http://www.amazon.com/Babymouse-11-Dragonslayer-Jennifer-Holm/dp/0375857125)) but I am guessing you are looking for something a little more adult. And not quite so pink. :)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

...Maybe not quite that fluffy. :P

(And certainly not that pink.)

[jennygadget.livejournal.com]

but but but! the geek in-jokes are all over the place! (no, really, they are.)

seriously though...maybe some YA fantasy/scifi? Unless, of course, you've read all of it already. (and no, I do not mean Twilight :p) It's not fluffy, exactly, but it's often less dense and less...somber than most adult fantasy/scifi. (although, the somber is often replaced with angst and melancholy)

[jennygadget.livejournal.com]

and feel free to tell me to shut up if i am being annoying and not helpful. i have a need to be helpful and not helpless today.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

No, no, helpful is good. It's just I've read everything fluffy on my shelves and all that's left is the stuff I've been avoiding because Woe! The Weight of the World is Upon Us and Will Crush Us and There are No Happy Endings! sort of thing.

I'm reading Ivanhoe, too. Perhaps I should give up and reread Tamora Pierce. :P

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Also, helpless? You okay?

[jennygadget.livejournal.com]

see-->recent posts.

yeah, everything's ok now. as much as it can be, anyway.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I thought that might be it, but y'know. Asking just in case.

[jennygadget.livejournal.com]

I appreciate it! thnx!