It's like not having anything to wear, but worse!!

[colliemommie]

I have nothing to read. The shelves and shelves (and boxes) of books nonwithstanding. I staunchly maintain I have nothing to read.

Virginia Beach, for all its myriad and horrible faults, has a great public library system. So I have access to books, and actually just finished Golding's To the Ends of the Earth books and Elizabeth Howard's 4 Cazalet books. But now I am out of inspiration.

I would greatly appreciate any recommendations. I tend to lean toward science fiction and historical fiction (except for Philippa Gregory, who writes trash at the expense of history and defamed Catherine of Aragon, one of the Great Classy Ladies of History), also mysteries, biographies, and pretty much anything else. I have catholic (small c) tastes.

Thanks very much in advance!

Comments

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

Ooo, I loved Sorcery and Cecelia too! It made me want to write a book in letters with another person! Have you read Wrede's Enchanted Forest series?

[colliemommie.livejournal.com]

My aunt lives in St. Paul. I've been getting autographed hardcovers since the year Dealing with Dragons first came out :-)

Those books make me happy just thinking about them...I feel a reread coming on.

[colliemommie.livejournal.com]

Have you read the other 2? Grand Tour was only meh (one woman was writing a personal journal and the other was being deposed, so it was very uneven and the tone wasn't consistent), but Mislaid Magician was in letters again and made me happy (plus we get James and Thomas letters too! yay Thomas!).

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

No-- actually I didn't even know there was a third one! -- but they haven't come to my libraries yet that I've noticed, which is usually the only way I ever read anything. That's weird that Grand Tour isn't in letters though-- it seemed like a perfect opportunity for it!

[colliemommie.livejournal.com]

Well, they can't be writing to each other in Grand Tour, because they're together the whole time. They tried to find another way to write the halves independently, but it just didn't work as well.