I particularly want fantasy by non-white authors, but suggestions of non-Euro fantasy by white authors will also be useful. I've looked at various compiled lists, but don't mind links to those, either, just in case I missed them.
Books you didn't think did a good job will be valuable for the panel as well.
Thanks!!!
Thanks!
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Which books should oracne bring for her week in Montreal?
LOVING A LOST LORD, Mary Jo Putney (historical romance)
1 (9.1%)
THE SECRET WEDDING, Jo Beverley (historical romance) 1 (9.1%)
DON'T TEMPT ME, Loretta Chase (historical romance) 2 (18.2%)
BOUND BY YOUR TOUCH, Meredith Duran 2 (18.2%)
NOT QUITE A HUSBAND, Sherry Thomas 2 (18.2%)
KISSING MIDNIGHT, Emma Holly (paranormal romance) 1 (9.1%)
WICKED GAME, Jeri Smith-Ready (paranormal romance) 2 (18.2%)
BRANDED BY FIRE, Nalini Singh (paranormal romance) 1 (9.1%)
START ME UP, Victoria Dahl (contemporary romance) 0 (0.0%)
TIME TO DEPART, Lindsey Davis (historical mystery) 2 (18.2%)
GOOD-BYE TO ALL THAT, Robert Graves (memoir) 2 (18.2%)
THE GENTLEMAN'S DAUGHTER: WOMEN'S LIVES IN GEORGIAN ENGLAND, Amanda Vickery (nonfiction) 3 (27.3%)
Why do you read so many romances? 1 (9.1%)
Something else which I will tell you in comments. 0 (0.0%)
TICKY, A LOVE STORY, Ticky Box 7 (63.6%)
How many books will I actually read and finish while in Montreal?
Do you like these reading polls?
Yes. 4 (40.0%)
No. 0 (0.0%)
Enh. 0 (0.0%)
I would like them more if you would write more reviews of what you read. 2 (20.0%)
Clicky. 4 (40.0%)
I think you should go on a reading binge of this genre/subgenre/author:
Regency romances without any sex in them 2 (20.0%)
Memoirs 1 (10.0%)
Current young adult sf/f 5 (50.0%)
Classic young adult sf/f like the Mary Poppins books 5 (50.0%)
Biography 1 (10.0%)
World War Two nonfiction, for a change from World War One 2 (20.0%)
The Crimean War nonfiction 1 (10.0%)
Rereading detective series (Sayers, Marsh, Allingham) 3 (30.0%)
Charlotte Bronte Reread 3 (30.0%)
More World War One nonfiction, you know you want to 1 (10.0%)
Ancient Egypt nonfiction 2 (20.0%)
Accept there won't be any more and finish the last few Patrick O'Brian novels 4 (40.0%)
Set up a randomizer and read what it tells you to read 2 (20.0%)
Ticky Box 4 (40.0%)
Something else which I will tell you in comments 1 (10.0%)
The book I most want you to read is:
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My first choice for oracne's reading this weekend is
Madeline Hunter, THE SINS OF LORD EASTERBROOK (historical romance) 3 (18.8%)
Connie Brockway, SO ENCHANTING (historical paranormal romance) 3 (18.8%)
re-read of Joanna Russ, HOW TO SUPPRESS WOMEN'S WRITING (nonfiction) 8 (50.0%)
Clicky 1 (6.2%)
Something else I will tell you in comments 1 (6.2%)
My second choice for oracne's reading this weekend is
Madeline Hunter, THE SINS OF LORD EASTERBROOK (historical romance) 2 (13.3%)
Connie Brockway, SO ENCHANTING (historical paranormal romance) 6 (40.0%)
re-read of Joanna Russ, HOW TO SUPPRESS WOMEN'S WRITING (nonfiction) 4 (26.7%)
Clicky 2 (13.3%)
Something else I will tell you in comments 1 (6.7%)
My third choice for oracne's reading this weekend is
Madeline Hunter, THE SINS OF LORD EASTERBROOK (historical romance) 3 (20.0%)
Connie Brockway, SO ENCHANTING (historical paranormal romance) 1 (6.7%)
re-read of Joanna Russ, HOW TO SUPPRESS WOMEN'S WRITING (nonfiction) 1 (6.7%)
Clicky 9 (60.0%)
Something else I will tell you in comments 1 (6.7%)
For travel reading, I decided on by Sherry Thomas, which I no longer have to hoard now that I know she'll have another book [Not Quite a Husband
]; Demon Angel (The Guardians, Book 2)
by Meljean Brook, for which I've received many recs; and a ringer thrown in at the last minute, Snowbound, a Harlequin Superromance by Janice Kay Johnson, who can be very soothing and undemanding.I am especially curious about how I'll like the Brook. I read the initial short story in this series (it was in an anthology with an Emma Holly story), and was basically unmoved, though it was by no means a bad story. I suspect I was overwhelmed at the time with reading a lot of paranormal romances in a row. We shall see. It would be nice to have another series I like and can glom. As a side note, I wonder if people go nuts that the novel is listed as "#2" when there is no novel #1, only that short story?
R = Romance, F = Fantasy, UF = Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Romance, R suspense = Romantic Suspense
Poll #1304055 Thanksgiving Reading
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Which 2-3 books should oracne take to NYC to read over Thanksgiving?
Diana Pharaoh Francis, THE CIPHER [new to me author, UF] 5 (21.7%)
Candice Proctor, MIDNIGHT CONFESSIONS [R; have only read her mysteries] 5 (21.7%)
Victoria Alexander, A LITTLE BIT WICKED [R; new to me author] 2 (8.7%)
Suzanne Enoch, BEFORE THE SCANDAL [R] 2 (8.7%)
Madeline Hunter, LORD OF A THOUSAND NIGHTS [R] 1 (4.3%)
Jeaniene Frost, ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE [UF] 4 (17.4%)
Carol Berg, FLESH AND SPIRIT [F; nice and long] 10 (43.5%)
Sherry Thomas, DELICIOUS [R] 5 (21.7%)
Anne Stuart, ICE STORM [R, suspense] 5 (21.7%)
Terry Pratchett, WINTERSMITH [F] 14 (60.9%)
Meljean Brook, DEMON ANGEL [new to me author, UF] 5 (21.7%)
Lorette Chase, YOUR SCANDALOUS WAYS [R] 5 (21.7%)
P.J. Tracy, MONKEEWRENCH [new to me author, R? suspense] 2 (8.7%)
Anne Gracie, HIS CAPTIVE LADY [R] 1 (4.3%)
Pam Rosenthal, THE SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION [R, trade paperback, so heavier to carry] 2 (8.7%)
I'm currently reading C. S. Harris (Regency England) and Deanna Raybourn (Victorian England). I've already come to love Lindsey Davis (Flavian Rome).
EDITED TO ADD: My older posts on mysteries, at least the ones I had the foresight to tag.
I am especially interested in Romance and Young Adult variations on this theme. Has it shown up in Mystery very much? Other than in Laurie R. King's Holmes novels?
What am I missing?
My list so far, of ones I've read and liked:
Georgette Heyer:
These Old Shades
The Corinthian
The Masqueraders [bonus boy dressed as girl!]
Jo Beverley:
My Lady Notorious
Connie Brockway:
All Through the Night [well, she doesn't do it except when thieving, but maybe it counts?]
Anne Gracie:
An Honorable Thief [again, only dressed as male when thieving]
Laura Kinsale:
The Prince of Midnight
The Dream Hunter
Pam Rosenthal:
Almost a Gentleman
ETA: Nita Abrams' romances have a male spy who frequently disguises himself as an old woman, and I think his daughter was often disguised as a boy in her youth, but we never see it, it's only referred to. If I remember right.
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secritcrush:What are you currently reading?
My answer:
Mike Carey, THE DEVIL YOU KNOW
Keri Arthur, KISSING SIN
Kate Douglas, WOLF TALES
Anonymous, DIARY OF A NURSING SISTER ON THE WESTERN FRONT (nonfic, research)
Plus some other research books I'm reading bits of, and a reread of Gilbert & Gubar's MADWOMAN IN THE ATTIC.
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Pick my holiday fiction reading!
Tanya Huff, SMOKE AND ASHES 10 (41.7%)
Gail Dayton, THE ETERNAL ROSE 3 (12.5%)
Wen Spencer, WOLF WHO RULES 7 (29.2%)
Charles Stross, THE CLAN CORPORATE 3 (12.5%)
Terry Pratchett, WINTERSMITH 17 (70.8%)
Kate Elliott, SPIRIT GATE 7 (29.2%)
Diana Wynne Jones, THE PINHOE EGG 12 (50.0%)
Jeanette Ingold, MOUNTAIN SOLO 2 (8.3%)
Julia Quinn, THE SECRET DIARIES OF MISS MIRANDA CHEEVER 4 (16.7%)
Michele Young, NO REGRETS 0 (0.0%)
Celia May Hart, MADE FOR SIN 2 (8.3%)
Sarah McCarty, CAINE'S RECKONING 1 (4.2%)
Zane, AFTERBURN 1 (4.2%)
Kristina Lloyd, DARKER THAN LOVE 0 (0.0%)
Lara Adrian, KISS OF MIDNIGHT 1 (4.2%)
To save time: I already have or soon will have the newest novels by Carla Kelly, Liz Carlyle, Suzanne Enoch, Lois Bujold, and Marjorie Liu.
If you were going to pimp new Dr. Who to a newbie, which stories/episodes of stories would you choose?
Do you have an Ultimate List of favorite episodes for each Doctor that you would love to share here? If so, feel free.
If you want to rant about episodes, feel free.
Amuse me, typing monkeys! I need it, today.
Your comments on how each book addresses the issue would also be helpful.
Thanks!
I'm going on vacation Wednesday through Saturday. I plan to be busy most of the time, but will still need two books at minimum. If I bring a nonfiction, the other book should be fiction. I've also selected for trade and mass market paperbacks over hardcovers, since I'll be toting these all over Manhattan. I want something involving enough for a train ride, but not so involving I can't read it in small bits in between doing other things.
After all that--help me make a choice!
Books in the running:
Lindsey Davis, Time to Depart [next in the Falco mystery series]
Raymond Chandler, The High Window [next in my rereads of the Philip Marlowe mysteries]
Nicola Griffith, Stay [a noir mystery I've been saving since last May, second in a series]
Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days [I'm getting near the end of the Aubrey/Maturin books, sob]
Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
Elizabeth Bear, Carnival
Gwyneth Jones, Life
Barbara Tuchman, Practicing History [nonfiction]
A.S. Byatt & Ignês Sodré, Imagining Characters: 6 Conversations About Women Writers [nonfiction]
These are short, so I'd need two of these to equal one of my choices:
Rosemary Sutcliff, Blue Remembered Hills [memoir]
Carla Kelly, Beau Crusoe [am torn between reading it on vacation and saving it longer]
Doris Lessing, The Fifth Child
One of the many World War One Tomes on my shelf.
Something Else.
Note I've already read Carol Emshwiller's Ledoyt and Molly Gloss' The Jump-Off Creek.
The World of the Shining Prince, Ivan Morris
Poisoned Lives: English Poisoners and their Victims, Katherine Watson
Eros, Magic and the Murder of Professor Culianu, Ted Anton
Arguing About Slavery, William Lee Miller
Word FreakThe Code Book, Simon Singh
The Life and Death of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
Men, Women and Chain Saws, Carol J. Clover
Founding Brothers, Joseph Ellis
Rubicon, Tom Holland
Lost Moon, Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger (alternate title, Apollo 13)
Chariots for Apollo, Charles R. Pellegrino and Joshua Stoff
Failure is Not an Option, Gene Krantz
A Man on the Moon, Andrew Chakin
The Way We Never Were, Stephanie Coontz
Lost Country Life, Dorothy Hartley
Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Timothy Ganz
The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen
The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James
Wild Thing, Ian Copeland
Bill Bryson: Notes from a Small Island, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, The Mother Tongue
Sell Yourself Without Selling Your Soul: A Woman's Guide to Promoting Herself, Her Business, Her Product, or Her Cause with Integrity and Spirit, Susan Harrow
The Devil In The White City, Erik Larson
Holy Feast, Holy Fast, Caroline Walker Bynum
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Roberto Calasso
Image on the Edge, Michael Camille
Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death, Millard Meiss
Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
Decent Interval, Frank Snepp
The Pursuit of the Millennium, Norman Cohn
Carolyn Walker Bynum: anything.
Bound for Canaan, Fergus Bordewich
Heaven's Coast, Mark Doty
Woman: An Intimate Geography, Natalie Angier
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63, Taylor Branch
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding, Robert Hughes
Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud, Thomas Laqueur
Dreambirds, Rob Nixon
Obedience to Authority, Stanley Milgram
Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball
The Broken Cord, Michael Dorris
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, Julian Rubinstein
On the Rez, Ian Frazier
Nobody's Perfect, Anthony Lane
Cyril Connolly: Enemies of Promise, The Unquiet Grave
George Orwell: Down & Out in Paris & London, Homage to Catalonia
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, Judith Thurman
Into Thin Air, Jonathan Krakauer
Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen
Language of the Night, Ursula K. Le Guin (This one I've already read, and can second the recommendation)
Virginia Woolf's Common Reader series
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, Marya Hornbacher
Drinking: A Love Story, Caroline Knapp
The Great Shark Hunt, Hunter S. Thompson
A Circle of Quiet, Madeleine L'Engle (I read this one a long time back.)
"Living in the Shadow of Death, Sheila Rothman
mroctober just asked, in comments, why only women seemed to write Great Queer Fantasy.The weather outside is vile--New Orleans seems to be visiting Philadelphia--and LJ seems slow, with no great huge comment-riffic posts going on. And I want email. And food for my brain. So I will ask.
Is this true? And if so, any theories as to why?
First, what is the Great Queer Fantasy Novel Canon? And who wrote the canon, men or women, and do we know or care what their genders/orientations are/were? And were the Great Queer Protagonists male or female?
And as a side question, do fans of slash like Queer Fantasy? (I know that in some cases they do, but in some they don't--I'm looking for specific authors that seem to be popular in both directions. So to speak.)
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