Help!

[listersgirl]

Okay, you smart and lovely people, I need assistance.

I'm a little bored with my books lately. I'm having a hard time getting into anything I have out from the library, I've read a couple of bad/unexciting things recently, I have nothing coming in from my holds any time soon. In short, I'm in a reading rut.

So, tell me: What is your favourite book? Who is your favourite author? What book do you think everyone around you should read? What is the book that changed your life? What is comfort reading for you? What book can always make you laugh? What have you read recently that got you excited? What book, when you find someone else who loves it, makes you need to be that person's best friend forever? What author do you wish was your best friend?

Give me something, anything, that I need to read. Fiction, non-fiction, genre, new, old, I don't care. Well, I might care a little if it's a western, but I'm willing to have my mind changed. I am your willing reader.

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[kiltsandlollies.livejournal.com]

What is your favourite book?
Another vote here for Les Miserables, and also the book that changed my life. So many themes, so many single fantastic paragraphs that slay me every time I read it. Power, justice, love, everything.

Who is your favourite author?
Right now, two historians: Alison Weir and Simon Schama. I'm deeply obsessed with British history, and both these authors can make me shut out the world for hours at a time and indulge that obsession.

What book do you think everyone around you should read?
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. People either love it or hate it, and I'm fascinated by the differences responses to the story.

What is comfort reading for you?
Books from my childhood: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The Westing Game, The Grounding of Group 6 ... and of course, more history books.

What book can always make you laugh?
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson. A sweet, but happily caustic, look at the United Kingdom and its denizens. It makes me incredibly happy to read this.

What have you read recently that got you excited?
Very little, unfortunately. I'm a loner, so it was a pleasure to read Jonathan Franzen's How to Be Alone, though I think his fiction is a bit overrated.

What book, when you find someone else who loves it, makes you need to be that person's best friend forever?
Les Miserables, usually. :-)

What author do you wish was your best friend?
Alison Weir ... failing her, the late Marion Zimmer Bradley.

[listersgirl]

I'll have to check out those two historians. A well-written history is a joy to behold. :)