If you haven't read Dorothy L. Sayers, go ye forth now and read Strong Poison, Have His Carcase and Gaudy Night, in that order. Enjoyable mysteries of the howdunnit rather that whodunnit variety, that are also good novels about the evolution of a relationship between two strong, intelligent people. Who speak very wittily.
Anne Lamott's Travelling Mercies. It's sort of a spiritual autobiography, with lots of drugs, sex, and profanity. I venture to gurantee it won't make you throw up, no matter how jaded you might be about Christianity.
Rumer Godden's children's books, especially Miss Happiness and Miss Flower. I don't know how I'd like them coming to them fresh as an adult, but I loved them as a child. The inner life of dolls is a frequent theme.
Anything by Robertson Davies. I started with Fifth Business, but another good first would be The Rebel Angels or even What's Bred in the Bone. Character-driven novels about life, art, and scholarship. Beautiful incisive writing.
I just finished Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. It might be hard to get into... it was sitting around my house for two years before I read it, but once I picked it up I read it with much interest. It might best be described as Bladerunner meets Tolkien.
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If you haven't read Dorothy L. Sayers, go ye forth now and read Strong Poison, Have His Carcase and Gaudy Night, in that order. Enjoyable mysteries of the howdunnit rather that whodunnit variety, that are also good novels about the evolution of a relationship between two strong, intelligent people. Who speak very wittily.
Anne Lamott's Travelling Mercies. It's sort of a spiritual autobiography, with lots of drugs, sex, and profanity. I venture to gurantee it won't make you throw up, no matter how jaded you might be about Christianity.
Rumer Godden's children's books, especially Miss Happiness and Miss Flower. I don't know how I'd like them coming to them fresh as an adult, but I loved them as a child. The inner life of dolls is a frequent theme.
Anything by Robertson Davies. I started with Fifth Business, but another good first would be The Rebel Angels or even What's Bred in the Bone. Character-driven novels about life, art, and scholarship. Beautiful incisive writing.
I just finished Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. It might be hard to get into... it was sitting around my house for two years before I read it, but once I picked it up I read it with much interest. It might best be described as Bladerunner meets Tolkien.