Books, books and more books. I come from a family of readers and it seemed, growing up, that books were jammed into most available spaces in our home. I started reading at a very early age and books became like my favorite friends. Of course the early years went from Seuss to Miss Pickerel to Trixie Belden and Nancy Drew. And then my early teens were spent with Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. LeGuin, Asimov, Clarke and others of that genre. A brief foray into the horror novels and then one day I picked up the Lord of the Rings and a whole new world opened up for me. The world of action, adventure, heroes, good vs evil. It also seemed that there was much variety in this area at the time. From novels spun from mythologies (my favorites being the Celtic myths) to action/adventure novels, dragon novels, relationship novels, but lately the pickings have grown increasingly slim, the bookstore shelves being slowly crowded out by the Forgotton Realms and AD&D series.
So after a long friendship with fantasy novels, it seems like the well has run dry and not much truly original work is being done in this genre. So one of my 43 things goals was to expand the range of genres that I'm reading. Happily, I've rediscovered Science Fiction, and I am now trying out some bestseller/action/adventure type novels like Brimstone by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child , DaVinci Code by Dan Brown, and others.
Also happily, while perusing books at the bookstore (they had a buy 3 get the 4th free sale) I checked out the young teens books hoping I could find something interesting for Aliya and there amongst the young angsty books and the O.C. novelizations I came across The Outsiders by S.E. HInton. Man, this was one of my favorite books at her age so I picked it up for her. She loves it. I think I'll borrow it from her when she's done and read it again.
Latest Books read:
- Brimstone, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
- Pandemic, Daniel Kalla
- Decipher, Stel Pavlou
- The Family Trade, Charles Stross
Currently reading:
- Still Life with Crows, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
- Sethra Lavode, Steven Brust
Next on the List:
- American Gods, Neil Gaiman
