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Nigella Lawson: How to Eat and How to Be a Domestic Goddess. Cookbooks. Because I love reading them, and Lawson's Feast (thanks![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gwyniera!) was marvellous: personal, funny, unpretentious, tempting.
The Freedom Line: The Brave Men and Women Who Rescued Allied Airmen from the Nazis During World War II. Self-explanatory, I would think.
Making the Corps. Nonfiction on Marines, recommended byoyceter. Love those training sequences!
Naomi Novik: Victory of Eagles. Adrian is now madly in love with the series, as am I. Perhaps we can read this one aloud to each other, if 1-3 chapters/week doesn't drive us mad.
Kathleen Duey: Skin Hunger. Loved this, loved it, loved it. Read it from the library, couldn't wait to own it.
L.J. Smith: Night World No. 2: Dark Angel; The Chosen; Soulmate. Didn't like the last and Smith rather hilariously dissed the first herself, explaining that it was conceived when she was fifteen (and since the charm of all her books lies in their closeness to the teenage id, I find that both terrifying and awesome), but the middle one sounds pretty good.
Jo Walton: Half a Crown. Final entry in her horrifyingly brilliant fascist England trilogy. Loved the first two and would even re-read them despite their creepifyingly convincing subject matter.
Neil Gaiman: The Graveyard Book. Because my favorite of his prose works is Coraline, his other book for children.
Nigella Lawson: How to Eat and How to Be a Domestic Goddess. Cookbooks. Because I love reading them, and Lawson's Feast (thanks
gwyniera!) was marvellous: personal, funny, unpretentious, tempting. The Freedom Line: The Brave Men and Women Who Rescued Allied Airmen from the Nazis During World War II. Self-explanatory, I would think.
Making the Corps. Nonfiction on Marines, recommended by
oyceter. Love those training sequences!Naomi Novik: Victory of Eagles. Adrian is now madly in love with the series, as am I. Perhaps we can read this one aloud to each other, if 1-3 chapters/week doesn't drive us mad.
Kathleen Duey: Skin Hunger. Loved this, loved it, loved it. Read it from the library, couldn't wait to own it.
L.J. Smith: Night World No. 2: Dark Angel; The Chosen; Soulmate. Didn't like the last and Smith rather hilariously dissed the first herself, explaining that it was conceived when she was fifteen (and since the charm of all her books lies in their closeness to the teenage id, I find that both terrifying and awesome), but the middle one sounds pretty good.
Jo Walton: Half a Crown. Final entry in her horrifyingly brilliant fascist England trilogy. Loved the first two and would even re-read them despite their creepifyingly convincing subject matter.
Neil Gaiman: The Graveyard Book. Because my favorite of his prose works is Coraline, his other book for children.
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I haven't read The Graveyard Book yet. I liked Coraline, but my favorite of his prose works is definitely American Gods. Or Anansi Boys. It's hard to choose, since they're so different. The latter is more fun. But the former is awesomely epic.
Of course, my favorite Gaiman work, period, is Sandman.
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I do think the Farthing series (is that the umbrella title/nick?) _is_ so creepifyingly convincing, as you put it, mainly because it's sort of so quiet and believable and not dwelling on the obvious horror, and it just is all the more gruesome for not being some kind of It Can't Happen Here/My Country Tis of Thee takeover propaganda (there was some really awful short film/drugstore paperback, when I was an adolescent, about how the Soviets took over and came into a grade school classroom and had the kids gleefully hating the Pledge and tearing up the flag in like 10 seconds. So clearly the solution is: More indoctrination!). I think it also sort of permanently ruined Brat Farrar for me, but that's a tradeoff I'll take any day.
The Matrix movie had me at Laurence Fisburne telling Keanu Reeves "You're ready for your training." Oh, training sequences love.
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Also, YYAAAAAAYYYY book loot!
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