Project: read a mother fucking book already!

[gemmi999]

So, between school and work and exercising and a variety of other things (including a shorter attention span), it feels like it's been FOREVER since I've read an actual, physical (or electronic) book. Something *not* related to fandom; something I didn't read to get into a new fandom, etc. So, I've started a project for myself called Project:

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[badassbroccoli]

Oh God, there are so many good books out there...

Some favorites:

The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yoko Ogawa
Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
The Bone People - Keri Hulme

FYI, I have a weird penchant for international literature written/placed between roughly 1940 and 1980 (especially postcolonial literature)... as this book list indicates. I promise that they're all phenomenal books, though!

Happy reading! :)

[badassbroccoli]

Oh, and if you're interested in a seriously ambitious mindfuck of a read, try out House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski.

[uniquegrl7]

You should definitely try to read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green and The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson.

[brienze]

I feel like someone needs to bring down the tone around here, so I'll suggest Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson. The setting is near-future, the plot is driven by concepts from ancient Mesopotamia, it's got characters you can care about and an interesting style of writing. Oh, and it's a near-future cyberpunk dystopia genre SF novel.

[heygirlie]

Are you me? That entire first paragraph has been running through my head for a long time now.

I think I'll kickstart my own Project: RaMFBA by reading "Watership Down" again. It's been long enough that I don't remember the details, only that I loved it.