I read constantly. I'm picky, but I'll try anything. I'm judgy, though there's always something redeeming in any book. Even in Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. I'm a geek for fantasy, and not just the kind where I get hazed into the frat (Hi honey!). I like 'em big, small, long, short, hardcover, paperback, no cover, dog-eared, bookmarked, coffee-stained, creased, highlighted, old, new, trashy, dramatic, dry, relevant, irreverant, dirty, full of lessons, nice, mean, double-spaced, shiny, dull...
What follows is my
5/14 - 5/21: The Brother's War, Jeff Grubb; "It was the night before the end of the world..."
5/21 - 5-25: Planeswalker, Lynn Abbey; "A man descended..."
5/25 - 5/30: Time Streams, J. Robert King; "Urza says he's sane. Perhaps he is."
5/27 - 5/29: The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean; "In the case of the orchid story I was interested to see the words "swamp" and "orchids" and "Seminoles" and "cloning" and "criminal" together in one short piece."
6/1 - 6/7: The Sex Lives of Cannibals, J. Marten Troost; "One day, I moved with my girlfriend Sylvia to an atoll in the Equatorial Pacific. The atoll was called Tarawa, and should a devout believer in a flat earth ever alight upon its meager shore he (or she) would have to accept that he (or she) had reached the end of the world."
6/3 - 6/8: Starless Night: The Legend of Drizzt Book VIII, R.A. Salvatore; "The mercenary leaned against the pillar anchoring the wide stairway of Tier Breche, on the northern side of the great cavern that housed Menzoberranzan..."
6/8 - 6/17: I Am Not Myself These Days, Josh Kilmer-Purcell; "Things in New York sparkle a lot longer than you'd expect before they burn out."
6/17 - present: Jemima J, Jane Green; "You don't need to know much about my background, suffice to say that my childhood wasn't happy, that I never felt loved, that I never got over my parents' divorce as a young child, and that now, as an adult, the only time I feel really comforted is when I seek solace in food."
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