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Cosette
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9 years ago

Bookworms unite


When I flew to QLD for Summit, I sat down next to a lovely lady who turned out to be an avid reader, like me. The only thing I like almost as much as reading is talking about books. Any other voracious readers in the house? What kinds of books do you read? What are your favourites? What are you reading now?

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  • @Zoffiel, that sounds pretty awesome. Would you recommend a title or two?

    @primek The Girl in the Box series sounds interesting. Have you seen Jessica Jones on Netflix? It sounds like they have a similar vibe.

    I tend to go for classics and literary fiction, but I just finished reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman in anticipation of the TV adaptation coming out later this month. That defies genre, having won the Hugo and Nebula awards (given to sci-fi and fantasy) and the Bram Stoker award (given to dark fantasy and horror). It's not the sort of thing I normally read, but it was excellent.

    This week, I started Looking for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna by China Galland. This is a sort of spiritual travel memoir. The author traveled through Nepal, India, Switzerland, France, and Poland in search of feminine forms of the divine, specifically the Buddha Tara and the Black Madonna. Again, not usually the sort of thing I read, but it's good to mix it up.
  • Oh Socoda. ..we are more than bc sisters lol. Love medieval stuff and fantasy too. 
  • Murder, true crime, fantasy (as in dragonriders of pern - not Fabio in mills and boon) more murder, medieval history and more murder. Excellent!!!
  • Wading through Peter Barton's terrific book on Fromelles (another totally pointless battle of WW1), a book on the rise of Trump (riveting but scary too), Judi Dench's autobiography and Ladies in Black. Bad habit of several books on the go at once. Science fiction (but never so called science fantasy!) for light reading. 
  • I love detective stories, murder mysteries and currently quite differently obsessed with the "girl in the box" series (up to book 16). I also enjoy historical books like Jane Eyre. I sadly left my kindle behind when I came for surgery...so have managed to scrounge some magazines at least.
  • Murder and mayhem. Blood on the tiles. Female protagonists with bad attitudes and big bikes.