book talk time!

[marketchippie]

So, I have ridiculous reading this term-my Russia & the West seminar is like all primary sources, my Gender & Law obviously features legal documents heavily (actually wish they'd do that more, the cases are loads more interesting than secondary-source books cataloguing and summarizing the cases)-and while I am deeply into it all, it does mean that

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[marketchippie]

Bless. Which? Bet I can commiserate.

[hariboo]

White Oleander! It was one of my first Adult Lit books, though I think my first was Summer Sisters in which I remember getting one point and being like: OH. Okay. Or it was Daughter of Fortune which was less ~ salacious but still. Then there were The Witching Hour (Anne Rice) which almost was a good series except it turned into the worst. ANYWAY. Lol, recs! Personally, I've read way too many Nora Roberts back in the day but they're so boring and recycled they shouldn't be recced. I've been hearing good(-ish?) things about this series called The Brigdertons series (Julia Quinn) which is Regency romance and all about a family and how each sibling finds love.

[marketchippie]

Heh, I love this constant of being ruined by White Oleander: like, first time you figure out that coming-of-ages can be written ~for grown-ups, I guess.

[ghostrunner7]

Oh, god, White Oleander. Meeeemories.

I had a year long standoff with my mother over Laurell K Hamilton's books, which I read at the impressionable age of about twelve or thirteen. I'm still not sure if they were a really good or a really bad way to learn about sex.

[marketchippie]

O lord, yes, I remember those. Didn't even bother with Anita Blake, which at least seemed to start out with pretenses of being real books for a while?-no, went straight to the faery orgies.

[vega_ofthe_lyre]

Well, for the most part I don't mind the books about the criminally insecure everywoman as you do, because I am not a femme fatale and even if it is a cheap way out I do think that Meg Cabot Safe Space can function as exactly that - a safe space - definitely my defense mechanism, the books I read when I'm tired of the tomes of war and bloodshed I read for history classes or the dreary novels about miserable people or when my own depression and anxiety are wearing me down and I am dazed and dysfunctional and it's a comfort, this framework where everything is sorted out by the third act and the everywoman gets what she deserves. I say this only to clarify that my escapist fiction is probably not escapist fiction that you would like, so I don't know what to recommend you! (Even though in my defense I like to pluck the best from the genre, but anyway

[marketchippie]

You know, I found a Sophie Kinsella novel (written under a pseudonym-which is remarkable to me! Why have a pseudonym if you're already writing Sophie Kinsella novels?) about a woman who crashes funerals for rich boyfriends, and ngl, I was tempted. Found it at the airport in Heathrow, fuck if I can remember now. WHY AM I A GOLDDIGGER-NOVEL MAGNET. Golddiggers and incest: they come to me, I swear.

And ha, I took stock of the Crusie gothic last time you recced! Note to self: if anything's begging for a cheesecake B&N read, it's that.

(I KNOW MY TASTES ARE WEIRD AND TERRIBLE, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO NAVIGATE THE WORLD. I just want everything to be "Mrs. Beast", Emma, which AUGH INDEBTED NOW THAT I KNOW ABOUT THIS POEM. ♥!)

[lareinenoire]

I want to second Eva Ibbotson. I picked up A Company of Swans completely by accident a few years ago and it was just delightful in every way.

[cambridge]

wait, I love talking about YA! (of course) I have read about forty books so far this year and they are all books I would be embarrassed to admit in public.