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Anne wrote: "I am readingbDocumenting Light. It might have been mentioned here before, but if you are looking for a well written, low key book about trans people and queer history, I really reco..."It's a lovely book. Quiet and thoughtful and full of hope. I loved how it was all about history and historical methods and the subjectivity of it all. I found it to be a genuinely interesting and very intelligent book. Another recommendation.
I just finished Charlie Cochrane's new book--Count the Shells. It's lovely and so well written. She's so good at creating a historical atmosphere that feels true and authentic.
You know how sometimes none of the books you try seems interesting or fun and you have to revert to old favourites in stead? And other times you find several good ones in a row. I have been on a good track lately so hereby recommend ( also mentioned here before I think) His Quiet Agent and The Bones of Our Fathers. I admit to being fond of books that are well written, don’t focus on sex and actually seem to expect at least a little bit of intelligence of the reader, in other words, don’t overexplain everything.So if you haven’t tried them already, enjoy :)
PS. Right now I am enjoying Romancing the Werewolf which is a spin-off from the Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger that I know someone recommended years ago. It’s fun and unlike the rest of the series, m/m in nature.
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Anne wrote: "You know how sometimes none of the books you try seems interesting or fun and you have to revert to old favourites in stead? And other times you find several good ones in a row. I have been on a go..."Both good recs! I enjoyed those as well.
I read some Gail Carriger years and years ago and I remember enjoying it. I should have a look at her newer stuff because her old stuff is fun.
For all you Joanna Chambers fans, here's a really lovely flash fic she wrote:https://boymeetsboyreviews.blogspot.c...
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https://www.goodreads.com/series/1846...
Long before the Summer of Love, pride parades down Market Street, and the fight for marriage equality, San Francisco in 1953 was all about the Red Scare, F.B.I. investigations, yellow journalism run amok, and the ladies who play mah jong over tea.
A series of 15-16 books. I've read one and two and am almost done with the third. Infused with humor to offset some of the bleakness of that time.
The Unexpected Heiress
The Amorous Attorney
The Sartorial Senator
Alison wrote: "For all you Joanna Chambers fans, here's a really lovely flash fic she wrote:https://boymeetsboyreviews.blogspot.c..."
So sweet.
Karen wrote: "Nick Williams mystery series based in 1950s San Francisco:https://www.goodreads.com/series/1846...
Long before the Summer of Love, pride parades down Market Street, and th..."
This looks fun, I downloaded the first one.
There is a couple of very good bookstores in Oslo with dedicated, well read and service minded people working there. Sometimes I go there and ask for recommendations when I am in the mood for different books than what I usually download on my kindle. Thus I sometimes end with little pearls I otherwise would have missed.So this summer I was recommended Old Filth but sort of forgot about it after I bought it. As some of you know, I am on sick leave with orders to take it very easy, which means a lot of reading and I found Old Filth in my book case and started reading. And fell in love :). It is about a piece of history and life I knew nothing about and is almost as alien as a fantasy novel, but real, about the British upper class who spent their lives in the far East, and sent their children Home ( and yes, they spelled it Home, with a capital H) to England when small, to be fostered by more or less strangers. The book starts before WWII and ends at present day, but reads perhaps mostly like a historical to me.
After reading the book I learned that Jane Gardam had written two more books about the same people from different POVs and luckily found these in another book store on Saturday.
This is not a recommendation as such since it is very different from what we normally discuss here, but on the other hand, I believe you all, as the book lovers you are, can understand the joy and wonder of discovering :)
Mymymble wrote: "Anne wrote: "There is a couple of very good bookstores in Oslo with dedicated, well read and service minded people working there. Sometimes I go there and ask for recommendations when I am in the m..."I believe the author mentions Kipling’s story as one inspiration for her books.
Anne wrote: "There is a couple of very good bookstores in Oslo with dedicated, well read and service minded people working there. Sometimes I go there and ask for recommendations when I am in the mood for diffe..."These sound interesting and having just come back from Hong Kong and the Phillipines with the flu also a timely reminder that I need to rest and do some reading this week.
I do like trying different books. I am surrounded by books but I like to have surprising gems waiting for me on my kindle or shelves so I will definitely put these on my to read list.
And I am staying in bed for the rest of the week to get over the flu!
Ije the Devourer of Books wrote: "These sound interesting and having just come back from Hong Kong and the Phillipines with the flu also a timely reminder that I need to rest and do some reading this week."Get well soon, dear Ije! But enjoy your reading time in the meantime ;-).
Ije the Devourer of Books wrote: "Anne wrote: "There is a couple of very good bookstores in Oslo with dedicated, well read and service minded people working there. Sometimes I go there and ask for recommendations when I am in the m..."Get well soon and enjoy your rest and reading!
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It's the flu, so I know that's no fun, but the idea of a week in bed reading sounds wonderful. :-D
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Sometimes reading outside the genre renews your pleasure in the genre. ;-)
Josh wrote: "It's the flu, so I know that's no fun, but the idea of a week in bed reading sounds wonderful. :-D "I know! Even when I'm sick and not feeling well, I do definitely enjoy lounging around the house and lying in bed reading a lot. It feels very indulgent, staying home and reading all day, even though it's a necessary thing as part of getting well.
Get well soon, Ije!
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This is an interesting sort-of-recomendation, Anne. Thank you!
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You know, that is true. In fact, I seem to need that every once in awhile — bouncing to other genres and then back again eventually.
Johanna wrote: "Josh wrote: "Sometimes reading outside the genre renews your pleasure in the genre. ;-)"You know, that is true. In fact, I seem to need that every once in awhile — bouncing to other genres and th..."
Me too. This genre is not my first love, but perhaps my latest and for a while I was in that honeymoon stage where this was all I read. These days I go back and forth, but these last years have given me some well loved favourite authors that I always come back to. And good friends with excellent book recommendations as well :)
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Yes, it's the same for me.
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Meanwhile, I started reading Backtrack last night. I'm not too far into it yet, but it's proving to be very similar to one of Hansen's other mysteries I read awhile ago that's not Dave related.
I'm just wicked excited to know that the library has not one, but TWO copies of Backtrack that can be checked out. :-D Everything else we have by him is in-library-use-only except for one copy of a Dave book. So this is exciting. One I read it I can better recommend it to people.
Jordan wrote: "So I recently recommended Fadeout to a patron who read it and wrote back to me that she didn't understand whodunit in the end. I reread the ending, and I don't understand how one coul..."Not every book is for everybody, but who can resist Dave Brandstetter I wonder. ;)
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I don't know if I should gasp or LOL... :-D
I'm rereading Red Dirt series by NR Walker in the form of audiobooks and just gobbling them up like candy :-)What I've always been curious about is what a wombat is, so I googled it and see what I found!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCZ9Z...
How cute is that baby wombat! I totally understand Charlie now.
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I LOVE backtrack. I think partly because -- though Hansen is always so good with setting and mood -- he is really at the top of his game with that one. It's just so classically Southern California of that era.
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I really enjoyed it! It was hard to put down. But, I'm not sure how easy it will be to recommend to patrons. Dave is much easier to recommend, but we don't have Dave in print and some people don't like ebooks. Well, *shrugs* there was one guy a couple of months ago looking for classic gay lit, I would have given it to him if I'd known we had copies!
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And yet, I just want to reread His Quiet Agent again. And again. lol.
Jordan wrote: "So I got a copy of The Whispering Room from the publisher that comes out in two weeks. Must read it fast. Though it's wicked long! And yet, I just want to reread His Quiet Agent a..."
Did you see this, Jordan?
http://blog.adamariasoto.com/?p=1077
Ije the Devourer of Books wrote: "Anne wrote: "There is a couple of very good bookstores in Oslo with dedicated, well read and service minded people working there. Sometimes I go there and ask for recommendations when I am in the m..."I hope you feel now a bit better, dear Ije!
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Jordan wrote: "Haldis, yes, someone linked to the GR post in the BOMthread. But, I’m really enjoying the comments and her responses too! Thanks for the new link. I may have to go restart HQA from chapter one toni..."Me too!!!
Sabine wrote: "Ije the Devourer of Books wrote: "Anne wrote: "There is a couple of very good bookstores in Oslo with dedicated, well read and service minded people working there. Sometimes I go there and ask for ..."I am getting better bit by bit. I wouldn't have thought I could be so knocked out by the flu.
Ije the Devourer of Books wrote: "Sabine wrote: "Ije the Devourer of Books wrote: "Anne wrote: "There is a couple of very good bookstores in Oslo with dedicated, well read and service minded people working there. Sometimes I go the..."It’s good to hear you are getting better. I guess your travels, although fun and interesting, would make your body more susceptible to the illness?
I just finished Hamilton's Battalion: A Trio of Romances, three stories by three authors set in the universe of Hamilton the musical. It is always fun to read something well written, interesting and fun and to learn something besides. I do believe the stories here are historically correct ( more or less) and they definitely taught me a few things I didn’t know. One story is f/m, one m/m and one f/f and they are all wonderful. :)
Anne wrote: "I just finished Hamilton's Battalion: A Trio of Romances, three stories by three authors set in the universe of Hamilton the musical. It is always fun to read something well written..."I started that the other day and I'm enjoying it so far. It's by Rose Lerner and Courtney Milan, both of whom I have read and know write awesome stories, and also Alyssa Cole, who I haven't read yet, but I hear amazing things about her books regularly. So I'm looking forward to the rest of it. It's cool because the American Revolution isn't really a common time for romance stories to be set, so it's different and that's interesting.
Alison wrote: "Anne wrote: "I just finished Hamilton's Battalion: A Trio of Romances, three stories by three authors set in the universe of Hamilton the musical. It is always fun to read something..."The only one I knew before was Rose Lerner whose books I really enjoy. The other two was new and definitely interesting to read. I’m going to find more books from them.
Anne wrote: "Ije the Devourer of Books wrote: "Sabine wrote: "Ije the Devourer of Books wrote: "Anne wrote: "There is a couple of very good bookstores in Oslo with dedicated, well read and service minded people..."Possibly. Travel is always tiring and if you are travelling for work it is hard to switch off at the end of the day because you are still in work mode. I am going to do much less travel next year. I have a good team in place and so I am going to let them lead.
Anne wrote: "I just finished Hamilton's Battalion: A Trio of Romances, three stories by three authors set in the universe of Hamilton the musical. It is always fun to read something well written..."Sounds like fun. I am going to see Hamilton here in London in February. I have a pile of non fiction on Hamilton but I think it would be fun to read some romantic fiction.
Anne wrote: "Alison wrote: "Anne wrote: "I just finished Hamilton's Battalion: A Trio of Romances, three stories by three authors set in the universe of Hamilton the musical. It is always fun to..."Courtney Milan is great. Her (het) historical romances are genuinely interesting and feature neat characters and address social issues that aren't often dealt with in historical romance--like labour relations and gender roles and race and science and politics and universal suffrage and suchlike. I've read several of her "Brothers Sinister" series and they're great. I kind of put her in the same category as Rose Lerner--historical romances that are a little different than the norm. More socially and politically aware, perhaps, and featuring people that are less commonly featured in romance.
I finally wrote a review for
: wonderful and quite heartbreaking.The thing is, when a book is exceedingly good I feel compelled to write an exceedingly good review, so it takes a while and it is never as good as I wish it were.
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Jordan wrote: "Guys, I haven't read this yet, just now ordering it for the library in prep for our We Are Pride list coming out next year, but some of you will enjoy this: Santa's Husband..."Thank you, I love children's books.
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You're welcome. I can't wait to read this one myself.
Antonella wrote: "I finally wrote a review for : wonderful and quite heartbreaking.The thing is, when a book is exceedingly good I feel compelled to write an exceedingly goo..."
I hear such good things about Adam Silvera. I should read his books and see what all the fuss is about. :)
Alison wrote: "Antonella wrote: "I finally wrote a review for : wonderful and quite heartbreaking.The thing is, when a book is exceedingly good I feel compelled to write ..."
I definitely ought to read this, too.
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Thank you for the rec. Another one I've read, liked and not reviewed.