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Dec. 23rd, 2009 08:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreToday is better than yesterday.
So let us talk about books! A few days ago, I finished reading The True Meaning of Smekday which, as I have already said, is made of awesome and wonderful and you should all read it. I should buy a copy (after the holidays). But the thing about reading something that you really love is that other books feel oddly unsatisfying afterwards. I mean, I have other library books and they're fun, possibly, but they do not contain aliens named J.Lo, y'know? Yesterday, I started reading The Vintner's Luck, which is about wine and France and falling in love with angels and should be right up my alley but is not grabbing me yet. And this morning, I have started Daughter of Hounds, which looks like it's going to turn out to be my favorite kind of Lovecraftian fanfic (with bonus Pickman references*) but as yet, not quite grabbing me either. I shall, of course, continue trying with them but it's a little frustrating.
So I am going to ask my flist a question: What have you guys been reading recently that you really loved? What did you love about it?
*I am ridiculously fond of Pickman's Model. There is a Richard Upton Pickman ally card in the Arkham Horror game and when I found that out I was ridiculously happy. Man, I should make people play that with me again soon...
So let us talk about books! A few days ago, I finished reading The True Meaning of Smekday which, as I have already said, is made of awesome and wonderful and you should all read it. I should buy a copy (after the holidays). But the thing about reading something that you really love is that other books feel oddly unsatisfying afterwards. I mean, I have other library books and they're fun, possibly, but they do not contain aliens named J.Lo, y'know? Yesterday, I started reading The Vintner's Luck, which is about wine and France and falling in love with angels and should be right up my alley but is not grabbing me yet. And this morning, I have started Daughter of Hounds, which looks like it's going to turn out to be my favorite kind of Lovecraftian fanfic (with bonus Pickman references*) but as yet, not quite grabbing me either. I shall, of course, continue trying with them but it's a little frustrating.
So I am going to ask my flist a question: What have you guys been reading recently that you really loved? What did you love about it?
*I am ridiculously fond of Pickman's Model. There is a Richard Upton Pickman ally card in the Arkham Horror game and when I found that out I was ridiculously happy. Man, I should make people play that with me again soon...
