Yeah I'm mostly thnking about recent stuff. It seems like we talk a lot of books here but of course I remember nothing now.
'Lessons'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
It's hard to rec when I'm not sure what kinds of books you like, Stephanie. I'm reading Joe Hill's 20th Century Ghost right now and LOVING it -- it's short stories, and it's not all horror, it's more a combination of horror and fantastic fiction, and every story so far has just been fabulous. A couple of them really melancholy, rather than scary, and very sharply written.
Or you could give Coraline or The Graveyard Book a try, and get on the Neil Gaiman train.
For not-horror, not-genre, I'd also recommend The Time-Traveler's Wife, and I think you'd also like Jodi Picoult -- a couple of her books have protagonists that are either lawyers or the plot has something to do with the law. Sort of thinky women's fiction. I loved Plain Truth and My Sister's Keeper (although the last made me sob).
I'd second (well, third) The Time Traveller's Wife, and I'd also rec Cloud Atlas and The End of Mr Y. And Lost in a Good Book.
Windsparrow and I finally bought and read Rock and Roll Never Forgets by some woman named Deborah Grabien. It was pretty good.
Now I get to go to the office and wear shirt and tie for the dog and pony show for our biggest corporate customers.
I am off to staffing services to talk about potential positions for me at the institute. Hope that goes well... I'm wearing a suit and mascara and everything!
Damn, I forgot the mascara.
Damn, I forgot the mascara.
So did I, Daniel.
Stephanie, I just read Wordy Shipmates and Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell--I highly recommend them both.
I might get myself a Kindle just for environmental reasons.
That's my rationalization, and I'm sticking to it.
In a week, I'll have to resort to lesson planning. Gasp.
No, Erin, anything but that!