100 Books, 100 More Books, All the Words Ever

[onceupon]

There's a list of 100 book titles going around on Facebook. Apparently the BBC put this list together; the supposition is that the average person has only read 6 of the books on the list

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[pghbekka]

Patricia McKillip - anything and everything
Ken Grimwood - Replay - Vastly better than The Time Traveler's Wife and written first
Craig Clevenger - Contortionist's Handbook. Didn't like his followup, but this was brilliant
Sarah Rees Brennan - Demon's Lexicon series, third soon to be out (also enjoy her livejournal)
Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Alberto Manguel - Into the Looking-Glass Wood
Angela Carter - Nights at The Circus
Esther Friesner - Death and the Librarian and Other Stories
Diana Athill - Nonfiction memoirs

[onceupon]

Hi, thanks for stopping by with recs!

I've read a handful of those but the Grimwood, the Fiesner, and the Athill are new to me! I shall explore!

I got to have dinner with Sarah Rees Brennan earlier this year and she was a lovely person. So I checked out her books then. :)

[pghbekka]

So it occurred to me on reading your reply that I hadn't replied to a post in bookish or something, but had ended up at your journal because karynthia was giving the side-eye at her friends list and mine was being boring so I went to see what her list was doing and then I found your post asking for books recs and got distracted. Coz that's how I roll.

And but so plus also then I looked at your profile and you wrote that fabulous book with Kate Harding who I had wandered across eons ago and then lost in the haze of the internet and then rediscovered through a post about bullying and then thoroughly enjoyed the book.

All of which is just to say that the blogosphere is a strangely a small place like Pittsburgh and I have added you to my friends/reading list, and the chance that I will randomly rec books pretty much anywhere when the question is posed is highly likely.

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[onceupon]

I can't remember where I said it so I will say it again: I like Kristin Cashore. I liked Graceling and I think Cashore is a good author and a really neat person as well.

I will nibble away at this list!

But you have to tell me - what happens to the dog in The Forest of Hands and Teeth? Because I got a chunk of the way through it and then just could not even handle the stress of worrying about that puppy, okay? It's still sitting on my Kindle, waiting for someone to tell me what happens.

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[pghbekka]

So I thought that I actually had seen the answer to that somewhere else, but it was instead the same worrying question, completely different book. For those of us who don't mind legions of dead provided the animals are all o.k., there should definitely be a blog.

I would like to recommend where I found it, however, oddmonster's journal, for book reviews and recommendations.

Re: Bringing it, then

[sageautumn]

SPOILER!! :) Assuming everyone read this though...

I'm 95% sure the dog is fine. He's given as a gift to the little kid.

*ponders* Though now I can't remember what happens to all of those people AFTER that, so maybe something does happen but it's not spelled out.

I KNOW he's given to the kid.

[lilacsigil]

Graphic novels that are easily available to someone in the US:

You've probably read Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, but if not, highly recommended.

Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki - a Canadian coming-of-age novel (in a good way) with unsatisfying Wicca and high school mysteries, a pretty and fat girl and schoolgirl crushes that go somewhere.

[onceupon]

I have read Persepolis but I've never heard of Skim! Oh, I'm excited! Thank you.

[kiia]

Okay, I'm coming to this really late, but just in case, I'd suggest books by Tamora Pierce (they usually come in groups of 4, I have everything she's done) and Lilith Saintcrow, except the Dante series. My belated $0.02...

[kiia]

Oh, and Matthew Riley. Again, I have all of his books thus far. Some are stand alone, some are series, all of them are fun :)