hook me up!

[red_cross_kid]

so i finally swallowed my pride, went to the winnipeg public library, gave them millions of dollars, their books back, my promises of being a better patron, proof of attendance in the better patron course etc etc and they let me have a library card back! so now i need good book recommendations for someone too large and uncomfortable to leave the

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[teanut]

hmm..kurt vonnegut is funny. especially welcome to the monkeyhouse. it's short stories. lots of em. and hope for the flowers by trina paulus is hard to find but is the best kids book ever. and will take you 10 minutes to read.
otherwise, you might as well read as much anne rice as you can.
i kinda stick to the same fantasy trash over and over. uhm. yep.
that's all i got for ya.

[prairiecity]

i can leave you a tonne of fiction suggestions, but they're almost without exception totally depressing. all in the biblio collection, as follows:

*close to the knives : a memoir of disintegration - david wojnarowicz.
*all zadie smith (though the autograph man is the weakest)
*goodbye tsugumi - banana yoshimoto
*spoken here - travels among threatened languages - mark abley
*the god of small things - arundhati roy
*cherry - chandra mayor

those are all hideously depressing. for something less depressing i might try:

*bee season - myla goldberg, which is not the world's greatest novel ever, but is plenty charming

[red_cross_kid]

"not boring or depressing books."

geez cam.

theres a stove coming your way on saturday i think.

[prairiecity]

okay, but see: i would have suggested lullabies for little criminals but i'd have considered THAT depressing, (plus i knew you had already read it). my library is also up for grabs if i ever get it unpacked.

stove? what what?

[red_cross_kid]

well as it seems like your 'oh i have a total stove hookup' is a bit of a heel dragger, chris and kelvin lugged that stove from the basement up to the garage. seeings as we have a 60 year old stove tho and that one was our 'reserve stove' if lil miss viking here dies im you have to make me dinner all the time. deal?

[brownstargirl]

Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill. SO GOOD and funny. About a broke 12 year old girl kid in Montreal in the late 80s and her junkie dad and insane situations.

On Beauty, by Zadie Smith- she made a comeback! It's almost better than White Teeth.

[red_cross_kid]

iveread both of those, and loved them both, so you have good taste, thus are resposible for giving me more suggestions! more!!!

[skiddysmith]

hey kell,

i think a good fun read that doesn't make you think too much and is pretty endearing are the oz books. you like harry potter so i think you might enjoy them.. super cute. hmm, i'm trying to think of some hilarious authors but am drawing a blank.. will tell ya if anything comes to me!

xo. kim.

[red_cross_kid]

ive read all of ariel gores books except the traveling road show one, which i took out of the library today (yea!). what books are must reads by francesca lia block? shes got a lot of books. oh i just read the birth house a few weeks ago. so good!