Reading List Suggestions?

[metrosxualbutch]

Hey Friends.

So, i'm about to go on a long vacation, then be at festival, and I was wondering if 'yall have suggestions of a fiction reading list, specifically something fun and fantasy-like. I totally LOVED reading Harry Potter at festival, and also loved reading the Mists of Avalon at festival. I already read the Phillip Pullman series (amber

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I have one!

[pegsioux]

You MUST read Peter and the Starcatchers! It's the story of how Peter Pan came to be and it's fantastic. There are two more after it but you gotta read that one first. I love love LOVE this book, it's Harry Potter-ish and sweet and lovely and quite funny, too. Kinda like you. :)

xoxo

PSue

one more

[pegsioux]

And Water for Elephants was amazing, the story of a broke kid veterinary student in the Depression hitching a ride with the circus and being the elephant doctor. Intensely cathartic, at least for me, and absolutely beautiful.

aaand

[pegsioux]

The Southern Vampire series by Charlaine Harris is whimsical and funny, but it IS vampire based. HBO made it gory but the books don't read like that at all. It wasn't scary, which was good, and the part I loved was that it took place in a world where vampires have just "come out of the coffin" and the parallels between their quest for civil rights and queers is...similar.

Something about books where magic/supernatural stuff is very matter-of-fact and ordinary in our world really float my boat. Anyway, there's 7 books in this series and I love 'em.

can you tell I read compulsively?

[pegsioux]

There are also a couple of old standbys: Piers Anthony, C.S. Lewis. and Tolkien. They're all in the library, a biggo bonus.

Anthony's Xanth series is funny and sci-fi-ish (and long!), and The Chronicles of Narnia is beautifully written, also a long series. Tolkien's Hobbit and Lord of the Rings is also tremendous.

I'm going to come back here when I think of more, and to see what else people like. Yayyyyyy this post!

xoxo

PSue

Re: can you tell I read compulsively?

[metrosxualbutch]

Okay. YOU are awesome.

I totally devoured the entire CS Lewis series as a kid. Peter pan and me = future.

THANK YOU!

[hatched_chicken]

it'll go by quickly, but if you haven't read Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle In Time series, you gotta...

where are you going?