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.
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!
Going over my netflix queue, I realized I had two versions of Blade Runner in there. A Directors Cut, and The Final Cut. Any opinions on what the diff is, and which is better?
