Book recommendations

[ailbhe]

I have just worked out how to work my online library catalogue and obtained a functioning login for it and all. Please tell me which books I should be reserving to collect from my local library when they are conveniently available.

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Russell Hoban's "Frances" books for you and the kids and his "Turtle Diary" for you. James Herriott. Katherine Paterson's "Jacob Have I Loved." If you can find it at all, the Provensons' "Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm." Robert McCloskey.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

the first book i recommend to any sf/f fan is windhaven (george martin and lisa tuttle). not sure if i've mentioned it to you before. also, i've been catching up on marion zimmer bradley's darkover books lately, and enjoying them a whole lot. nonfictionwise, i've just finished "why do buses come in threes", which i've been meaning to read for years, and which did not disappoint.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

...which reminds me, do I get to borrow that? ;)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

sure :)

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

You of course may have read all of these, but these are the books I've really liked over the last few years:

American Gods, Neil Gaiman
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Dust, Elizabeth Bear
The Dark Beyond the Stars, Frank Robinson

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I am currently reading: English history, American historical geography/geology, and soon moving on to California geography and the book I've read 30+ times and never get sick of.

[ailbhe]

I brought our big hardback Herriott to hospital while in labour with Linnea and re-read If Only They Could Talk, It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet, Let Sleeping Vets Lie, Vet in Harness, Vets Might Fly and Vet in a Spin.

We hired All Creatures Great And Small on DVD when we brought her home. I enjoyed it very much.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad that he got to see what joy his stories brought to others while he was alive.

[ailbhe]

I'm so glad he didn't die while driving so drunk he couldn't see after visiting wossname, the vet with the dog called Pheebles.

"Womitin bad, sorr" is household parlance, here.

[firecat]

What sorts of books do you like to read?

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

I'm re-reading the Clan of the Cave Bear books & started My Favourite Wife by Tony Parsons on Friday evening too.

My current favourite frothy reads are any of the teenager books by Meg Cabot. I like the Princess Diaries series best so far, but read Avalon High over the weekend & previously read All American Girl. There's another series called The Mediator, but I'm waiting for the first one to be available in our library before starting. You can easily curl up for an evening & get through one, but the best part is they have short chapters, so you cean read bits here & there v easily & not get lost as to where you got up to.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

What kind of books are you looking for?

The book I most recently read that I found really notable was "The Carhullan Army," by Sarah Hall (which is called "Daughters of the North," in the U.S., where I got it). It is not something you're likely to want to share with the kids, but otherwise it was a powerful book. You might find it triggery. (It's supposed to be, but you might find it even more so than others. But I could be wrong.)

[radegund.livejournal.com]

If you can stomach 'orrible murders in any shape or form, Dorothy L. Sayers.