Xander ,'Empty Places'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I LOVE Tana French. And I got to interview her for Faithful Place, and she was very gracious and chatty and a delight to talk to.
People often recommend Sophie Hannah to fans of Tana French; I haven't read her myself but that might be worth a try, Sue. I think I've read similar things about Erin Kelly.
I think Tana French is fantastic. Slightly different in scope and tone, and definitely tme setting, but similar in an ineffable Dublin way are the Benjamin Black books. Loved Christine Falls which my LBS had a as a group selection.
Thanks for the recs!
I read one Sophie Hannah book -- Little Face -- and it was really odd, and sort of weirdly disturbing. I've heard so many good things about her, I feel like I should give one of her other books a try, but I'm not in a huge hurry.
I have Tana French's In the Woods, too, and I've been meaning to read it for ages.
If you like British procedurals with a lot of heart and character development, I LOVE Deborah Crombie's mysteries. They all feature Gemma James and Duncan Kincaid, and they've gotten better and better the longer she's written them. They're full of detail, and just creepy enough to give you a good chill, but they're always emotionally rich, too.
So, I read a big chunk of House of Leaves on my trip. And, while I thought I had the King James Bible on my tablet, I did not, so I couldn't check a reference where Zampano cited one verse, Johnny corrected it to another, and then the editors corrected it to a third. But I marked the place, and I just went back and looked them up (I now have the King James on my tablet), and I want to give props to the writer for finding 3 verses that fit so well with the characters and then burying them in the footnotes.
Finally got around to reading gone girl and...whoa. Very engaging by also somewhat horrifying. I couldn't put it down but also found myself more cranky than usual and having serious doubts about humanity as a whole.
Ha, Tom. I love the James Joyce one.
I'm just starting book 2 of Gone Girl, and OMGWTF! I did not see that coming.
Girl,
the shit gets super cray cray. You have no idea.