Does what it says on the tin.
I'm still a sucker for YA if I'm totally honest. I recently read The Selection - the trashiest of trashy YA and totally adored it >.>
But I was reading All The Birds in the Sky until I realised I hated both the main characters so I've kind of given up on it.
What are you guys reading? Anything you're madly recommending at the moment?
I was crazy about All The Lights We Cannot See earlier this year. It's about two young people in WWII - a blind French girl and a German orphan boy enrolled in Hitler's Youth. The Hitler's Youth parts were unbelievably good in my eyes, they showed how even the best, most moral people could be indoctrinated. Five stars from me.
Book Recommendations
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Whenever recommendations pop up I always have the urge to blurt out 'Ready Player One' because <3
At the moment I'm finishing up 'Blood Meridian', which I'd definitely recommend. If you like bleak westerns and can tolerate a lot of iffy situations and some scalping scenes, then it'll be a good read.
'All The Lights We Cannot See' sounds really interesting tho. Oh, I've also ordered 'Out in the Open', by Jesús Carrasco, which I'm eagerly awaiting. -
@StellaThomas I saw the title for this thread and literally was thinking I was going to put "All the Light We Cannot See" - then saw you already had put it. It is such a good book. My favorite one I've read for a long while. (Super long, but it's a fast read.) I've been trying to find one of Anthony Doerr's other books "About Grace" which I started listening to on Audio Book, but then the tapes were scratchy so never finished.
I read "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" this summer, and I would recommend if anyone likes Non-Fiction and is interested in bodily ethics and medical history. It's a true story about Henrietta Lacks - a Black woman whose cancer cells were taken without her permission and then used to create a whole bunch of medical advancements. The book follows her family's life after her death and what not. -
Anything by Jessica Day George. But especially Sun and Moon Ice and Snow and Dragon Slippers.
Also I'm listening to this book right now called Cupid by Julius Lester, and it's kinda a goofy story and I'm enjoying it. XP -
My recent "omg read this book" books are the Memoirs of Lady Trent series by Marie Brennan. They're the (fictional) memoirs of a noblewoman in a Victoriana-style world where dragons exist, who is totally devoted to the scientific study of dragons. Lady Trent herself has a wonderful narrative voice, and also, DRAGONS and SCIENCE!
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@Cadi - I bought that book and was so excited because DRAGONS and FINE LADIES but unfortunately it just wasn't me. Such physically beautiful books though omg I wish I had enjoyed it I would buy the whole series just for how they would look on the shelf!
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IKR, the covers are absolutely stunning! I have genuinely contemplated buying prints from the artist to cover my walls (but of course they are horribly expensive, especially with shipping).
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Because I'm me I have to recommend The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater. Welsh kings! Psychics! Fast cars! Poor choices and bad coping mechanisms! Collect them all! (also if anyone is audibly inclined like I am, the audiobooks are read by Will Patton and he is incredible.
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson consistently tops my list. Creepy girls, dark family secrets, and violent rural towns. What more could you want?
Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell is also fantastic and heartbreaking if you like troubled midwestern girls on troubled midwestern rivers. TW sexual abuse toward the beginning of the book (but it mostly moves away from explicit accounts of the abuse after the first few chapters). -
@Lauren2010 I bought We Have Always Lived in The Castle yesterday! Along with Good Omens which I'm reading now which is excellent. I'm excited to read it after this and I'm excited.
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@StellaThomas Good Omens <3 I just finished
re re re re rere-reading it. For anyone who's unfamiliar, it's by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (every time I say I've never read anything by TP, it's because I've forgotten that this book is a joint effort involving him), and I think the best sentence to give you an idea of what it's like is: It's time for the Apocalypse, but someone has misplaced the antichrist.
I laugh my whole way through it every time, it's amazing and I love it.
The Fairyland Series by Cathrynne M. Valente is my go-to recommendation. It's whimsical and beautiful and lighthearted and serious and perfect and wonderful and it makes me feel like a completely crappy writer, but oh well. ANYWAY. A girl named September is whisked away to Fairyland by the Green Wind. All she wants is to have grand adventures, but instead she keeps having to save the world from villainous characters...and since she often messes things up in the process, she has no end of problems to solve. There are talking creatures, cities made of baked goods and fabric, oodles of awesome female characters, and bad guys who are always more complicated than they seem.
5 books, all totally fantastic to the very end.I love Blunderbuss, the Combat Wombat, she might be my favorite. -
Oh, I'm going to have to read Good Omens. I absolutely loved Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series. It's been awhile since I read it, but I remember it being quiet humorous.
I just finished reading The Black Witch by Laurie Forest and it was so amazing. Sadly, the book has been getting a lot of hate because a review quoted a "racist" scene. The story is not at all racist. It's about a girl who grew up believing her race was superior and she learns that's not true, and it's speculator! I'll definitely be rereading this one. -
Oooh, yes. Anyone who hasn't read Good Omens should. It's beautiful.
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@Lauren2010 The Castle one sounds super interesting! Thank you for the recommendation, I just reserved it from the library, I'm the 11th in the queue for one single copy of the book so it might be a while xD
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