While She Knits
Oct. 5th, 2012 09:26 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
checkers65477.livejournal.com posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
queensthiefGosh, it's been quiet around here!
What great things have you read recently that are totally obscure? Something other people are unlikely to ever find on their own?
I'll go first:
Boris by Cynthia Rylant - if you've ever loved a pet, you'll like this one. So sweet! And, it's told in verse.
A teen sci-fi series that you'll like if you're a Star Trek nerd * - the Galahad series by Dom Testa. A comet has infected the earth with a disease that is killing off all the adults. As a last-ditch effort to save the human race, scientists build a spaceship to travel to another planet, and choose 251 disease-free teens who must learn how to get the ship there, and colonize the planet. Lots of fun. The first book is The Comet's Curse.
* No, not me. Not a bit.
What great things have you read recently that are totally obscure? Something other people are unlikely to ever find on their own?
I'll go first:
Boris by Cynthia Rylant - if you've ever loved a pet, you'll like this one. So sweet! And, it's told in verse.
A teen sci-fi series that you'll like if you're a Star Trek nerd * - the Galahad series by Dom Testa. A comet has infected the earth with a disease that is killing off all the adults. As a last-ditch effort to save the human race, scientists build a spaceship to travel to another planet, and choose 251 disease-free teens who must learn how to get the ship there, and colonize the planet. Lots of fun. The first book is The Comet's Curse.
* No, not me. Not a bit.
no subject
Date: 10/7/12 05:52 am (UTC)My sister and I were talking the other day about why some wonderful books are "cult classics," instead of just classics.
One of my all time favorites in that category is Maria Dermout's "The Ten Thousand Things." Which I'm not going to try to describe -- I just love it! And I reread it recently.
Does anybody else like Sherryl Jordan's "Winter of Fire?" I loved that book so much, I read it 3 times in a row. It's very different from the Queen's Thief series or Farsala, but I still loved it. :-D
I was just rereading "The Comforters" by Muriel Spark ....but I love everything by Muriel Spark. She rules!
Also G. K. Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday." (I always wonder who was lucky enough to see that New Leaf Theater production with the great trailer -- but I know I've posted that here before, so I will refrain).
I'm slowly making my way through Libba Bray's "The Diviners." "Beauty Queens was really awesome -- I'm having a harder time getting into "The Diviners," because it has really creepy horror. But it's still well done.
I don't know why more people don't read Sarah Rees Brennan's "The Demon's Lexicon" series. I think its funny, touching, gripping, .....all kinds of good things. Not a perfect series, but a really, really good one.
I also read "Team Human" recently -- so much fun! I definitely recommend it.
Finally -- not obscure at all -- but I've been reading Dante's The Divine Comedy. My Dad has been a huge fan all my life (and longer), but one of my sisters told me the comedy was really gruesome, so I avoided it for years. Such a mistake!
And I'm rereading "The Thief," so I can continue my dissection :-D
no subject
Date: 10/7/12 06:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/8/12 02:02 am (UTC)My sister thought Team Human sounded fun, so I'm glad you recommend it. I'll have to see if we can get a copy of it somewhere. :)
no subject
Date: 10/12/12 10:27 pm (UTC)