While She Knits - Holiday Edition

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

While Megan knits away on her next book,  how about some book recommendations?

What books do you have on your holiday Wish List?

What books are you giving others this year?

Comments

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

Patricia C. Wrede is a good author in general. Her Magic and Malice series is good and so is the Enchanted Forest chronicles.

As for my wish list, I'm hoping to get Reckless by Cornelia Funke and Museum of Thieves by Lian Tanner.

[tasukigirl.livejournal.com]

I want to get Holly Black's series on curse workers, The White Cat and the Red Glove.

Book I recommend to everyone: Flora Segunda by Ysabeau Wilce.

[tasukigirl.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I found Dealing With Dragons in middle school and loved it to pieces! I get all nostalgic just hearing her name.

I don't know if you read Raven Ring, but I think Karvonen started my love of thieves.

[drashizu.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping for CryoBurn by LMB. I've been so caught up in schoolwork I haven't been inside a bookstore for months, but I know I have dozens of I-want-to-read-this-book titles saved in a list, courtesy of previous WSK posts.

I did read a few interesting books recently during a slow week for schoolwork. They're scifi that I bought from Amazon because the review compared them to Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlein, which is one of my favorite books ever. The author is Karin Lowachee and the titles are Warchild, Burndive and Cagebird with more possibly to come. I loved every second of them and I'd recommend them to anyone.

(Note: the second-person narration in the first book only lasts for a couple chapters, then it switches to first person. So if you read the free preview on Amazon, don't think the entire book's like that. It's annoying but it only lasts while the main character is having some traumatic childhood events happen to him, then it switches to a more conventional style.)

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

Sweet! I did read it about two years agon. Karvonen was awesome. Imagine what it would be like if he teamed up with Gen. XD

[beth-shulman.livejournal.com]

Hang on - Cornelia Funke wrote a new book? (Not that I really liked her books after Inkheart (not sure why) but I thought Inkheart had one of the most original, creative, well-done premises ever - so I would definitely read the next book she writes.

And I second Patricia C. Wrede - have you read Sorcery and Cecelia? I loved it.

[beth-shulman.livejournal.com]

I want someone to preorder The Wise Man's fear for me... it's the single book I'm most excited for. (I'd say The Piper's Son, for Melina Marchetta fans, but I own that one already. One of the best presents I've ever bought myself.)

[katecoombs.livejournal.com]

Have you read the second Flora book? It's a little more teenagey, I thought, but still good.

[katecoombs.livejournal.com]

I read Cryoburn and liked it. LMB is just a good writer, period. But I wasn't as into her Sharing Knife books as the Miles V series. Oh, and I love Citizen of the Galaxy, too! (No one seems to talk much about it. Yay you for bringing it up!)

[katecoombs.livejournal.com]

Good character-driven YA: Dairy Queen, The Off Season, and Front and Center by Catherine Murdock. I'm not even into sports, let alone realistic fiction (usually), but I really liked these. They're about a farm girl from a taciturn, athletically talented family.

[tasukigirl.livejournal.com]

I have and I was rather surprised by how mature it got so quickly, but I still enjoyed it.

I am curious to see how the third book will turn out!

[peanut13171.livejournal.com]

Oh, YES! I have NO interest in cows or football, but these were fabulous books!

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

I want Chesterton! And I kind of want the Demon Lexicon books, so that I can pass them around to people. I want Dragonhaven and I want Pegasus (McKinley), and I want The King's Rose (Libby), and...I want to find my copy of Sunshine.

I recommend all of the above books? And probably some others. (Quick, someone reply to this comment and make my brain start working again, I am forgetting everything ever, ugh.)

I'm giving people chocolate? /too poor for books

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

Ah, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot. Jane Austen with magic. It doesn't get better then that.

Have you read her Mairelon series? Oh so cute, hilarious, and well plotted. Just like all of her books.

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

NO INTEREST IN COWS!!!!!?????

You'd better hope you never meet a Wisconsinite, my dear.

[tencups-i-swear.livejournal.com]

I recommend 'The Portrait of Dorian Gray' and also 'The Elephant Wish'.'The Elephant Wish' is a picture book, but I really liked it.

This year I have bought a few books for people, 'Castle in the Air' by Diana Wynne Jones, 'Instead of Three Wishes' MWT, 'The Cell' by some dude whose name I have forgotten, 'Rebel' by RJ Anderson, 'Where's my Cow' by Terry Pratchett, and a greeky book. And some others, but I can't remember what they are.

[tencups-i-swear.livejournal.com]

Also, hugely annoyingly, my town's library only has TWO of the books in this list of recommendations.

[philia-fan.livejournal.com]

I have sent my husband on a quest for a copy of Not the End of the World, a fabulously brilliant book by Geraldine McCaughrean which seems to be out of print :(. Giving him (sssh!) Luka and the Fire of Life by Mr. Rushdie.

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

Yup, here's a brief summary of Reckless: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/f/cornelia-funke/reckless.htm I'm a fairy tale geek, so this has gotten me curious. It appears to be another trilogy.

I read Sorcery and Cecelia and it was awesome. I'm reading the second one as we speak. ^_^

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

The Mairelon series is my favorite series by Wrede. I wish she would write a third so we could see Kit's married life. ^_^ You know it would be cute and hilarious.

[elvenjaneite.livejournal.com]

I think it's actually a bit more of Georgette Heyer with magic, but incredibly awesome nonetheless.

[elvenjaneite.livejournal.com]

I mostly want my own books, 2/3 of which are still in my parents' house in Oregon. Norton Shorter Anthology of Poetry! I miss youu!

I'm too poor to give people books, and they tend to not be giving me any either recently, but hope springs eternal.

[mortalasabee.livejournal.com]

My cow is offended. I told her what you said and she said "Moo? Mooo?!?? Humph. Moo." Just like that. :P

[peanut13171.livejournal.com]

I apologize!! I wasn't thinking. I actually *do* have an interest in cows: Cream (ice cream YUMMMM), milk, butter, cheese. Not hamburger or steak, though, so send your cow my love :-). (*Trying* to do the vegetarian thing.)

[peanut13171.livejournal.com]

Adored Sorcery and Cecelia, but the second and third book were "meh". I was so disappointed.

She recently wrote The Thirteenth Child (Wild West with Magic) which I enjoyed.

[peanut13171.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Terry Pratchett's I SHALL WEAR MIDNIGHT yet. It's a bit grim, but still has his trademark humor flashing throughout. And a nice romance for Tiffany.

And his next book is about the Guards, my fave!

[beth-shulman.livejournal.com]

I don't know - I just read it, and I wanted to love it, but it felt so predictable, to the point that it made the humor less humorous. I liked it, but Sorcery and Cecelia is still my favorite.

[beth-shulman.livejournal.com]

Oh, I totally agree about the second and third books. And I liked The Thirteenth Child, too. I remember it being well written.

[beth-shulman.livejournal.com]

I... just realized I have never read Three Wishes.

/utter shock

[beth-shulman.livejournal.com]

Oh, I just got The White Darkness in from the library! I think you were the one who recommended it. I'm looking forward to reading it :)

[beth-shulman.livejournal.com]

This comment :) WIN. I love it.

(Also, I'm taking a Modern American Poetry class next semester, and I cannot wait. Norton has the best anthologies.)

[philia-fan.livejournal.com]

I hope you like it!

[philia-fan.livejournal.com]

I'm actually waiting for my daughter to finish it, but it is in our house, anyway!

[wanderingdreamr.livejournal.com]

I've got a really short wish list this year (well, for books anyway, my manga one is huuuuge) but I really want Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern (it's probably the most accurate and amusing piece about high school nerdery I've seen in a long time) and Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey (New Zealand urban fantasy? You had me at NZ!).
And I first thought you wanted us to post knitting suggestions actually...

[charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Reckless is a rather brilliant book, one that I found easy to respect and enjoy as a Story, but not so much to cuddle up with as a story (if that means anything....)

Here's my review: http://charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/2010/10/reckless-by-cornelia-funke.html

[agh-4.livejournal.com]

Dorian Gray! I just read that. :)

[ilysia-039.livejournal.com]

I'm lusting after Lunatic Express, a nonfiction travelogue about a journalist who travels the world using only the worst, poorest transportation available. I've heard it's absolutely fantastic.

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Has anyone read The Spirit Thief by Rachel Aaron? It got really good reviews and sounds like something many of us would like. Here's the blurb:

Eli Monpress is talented. He's charming. And he's a thief.

But not just any thief. He's the greatest thief of the age - and he's also a wizard. And with the help of his partners - a swordsman with the most powerful magic sword in the world but no magical ability of his own, and a demonseed who can step through shadows and punch through walls - he's going to put his plan into effect.

The first step is to increase the size of the bounty on his head, so he'll need to steal some big things. But he'll start small for now. He'll just steal something that no one will miss - at least for a while.

Like a king.

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

This sounds AWESOME.

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

O_O Thank you! Always looking for good Sci-fi! Enjoy CryoBurn...it's lovely.

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmmm...Intriguing!

[seachild930.livejournal.com]

Oh no!!! How could that book be out of print?? Aahh!! It's one of my favorite books in the whole world! I hope you find it :) It's great!

[chachic.livejournal.com]

I have Seer of Sevenwaters by Juliet Marillier in my wishlist! I'd buy it but it's not available in the Philippines and my last Book Depository order still hasn't arrived. Also want a couple of Aussie books - Six Impossible Things, Graffiti Moon, The Piper's Son and the Aussie edition of Dash & Lily's Book of Dares.

As for gifts, I'm giving books by Filipino authors to my friends. :)

Haven't we all done this?

[(Anonymous)]

One book on my wishlist is The Man Who Lost His Head, by Claire Huchet Bishop, illustrated by Robert McCloskey. It is a humorous children's book about a man who literally (not euphemistically or metaphorically) loses his head--as in misplaces it. Offbeat, though not morbid, and definitely one-of-a-kind.

--Handmaiden

[filkferengi]

Well, there're two more coming. Magic & megafauna for the win!