I love Robin McKinley's Beauty. It was a catsitting present from pameladean in 1983 or so, along with Diana Wynn Jones's Charmed Lives. Both authors were new to me, so it was a very successful present.
As it happens, it's my current kitchen book, and I'm almost to the end.
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Date: 2019-01-28 05:33 pm (UTC)As it happens, it's my current kitchen book, and I'm almost to the end.
I always have a kitchen book; I read it in short intervals while I'm waiting for the microwave to finish heating up the soup or the chicken breast to finish sautéing on one side. Kitchen books tend to alternate between rereads of favorite books and "I've been meaning to read that" new-to-me books. But they have to grab my attention well enough that I pick up the kitchen book to read instead of pulling the iPhone out of my pocket and reading that book. (Yes, of course I always have an iPhone book in process. Also a bathroom book, an iPad book, and a bedside book. That last one usually has to compete with the iPad book, because ebooks are easier on my eyes, but I have a huge TBR pile of physical books.)