What should I reeeeaaadddd????

[14joa31]

Ladies - I have a long flight and some serious down time coming up. What should I read? I want to take a mix of books - nonfiction, fiction, drama, comedy - I want it all! Talk to me!

[crimsonandclover]

I think there were some non-fiction parenting book suggestions on the thread you started the other day. As for fiction - what do you like? I love fantasy and urban fantasy, so if you're into any of that I've got lots of recommendations depending on your preferences for relaxing entertainment: more action, mystery, steamy romance, etc.

There's one urban fantasy series that is so funny it makes me laugh out loud when I'm reading (a pretty rare occurence). It's a lot of fun - it's called the Charley Davidson series. Maybe you can read a snippet on amazon and see if it's for you.

[crimsonandclover]

Oh, and if you're not into fantasy, have you read Janet Evanovitch's Stephanie Plum series? It's amusing most of the way through but a couple spots have also hit my funny bone. I just started the series not too long ago, and there was actually a spot in I think the 5th book that had me crying I was laughing so hard.

[14joa31]

OMG - I just sort of love everything! So I will check out whatever you recommend. I have not read fantasy/urban fiction in a long time. FFC: I sort of got into all Twilight books, then I sort of to into all of the Hunger Game books, then the Divergent books ... but I could never get into Harry Potter.

I do need to go back and check out the baby raising thread and request some of those through the library immediately.

[crimsonandclover]

Ok, then here we go:

If you want more sexy/apocolyptic: Karen Marie Moning's Fever series

If you want more kick-butt, funny female lead with a somewhat more subtle romance: Ilona Andrews' Kate Daniels series (one of my absolute favorites)

If you want epicly long, amazingly deep, extremely well-researched historical/time travel fiction: the Outlander series

If you want a more adult fun/action/sexy vampire series (i.e. Twilight for grown-ups ), then Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress series

If you want a great adventure but clean enough that you'd be ok with a colleague reading over your shoulder (read: no sex scenes), then Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series or Tad Williams' Otherland (more science-fictiony than fantasy) or Memory, Sorrow, Thorn series (more classic fantasy).

That enough for now?

[kcrkcs]

Yay I love book threads I need some reading ideas too.
I read not that long ago the queen of the tearling by Erika johansen that and the follow up were pretty good. Third book is just out or coming soon. It's a slightly more mature version of the hunger games etc. vein but same kind of idea.
In the name of the wind is another great fantasy type read. It is well written and plot etc. is very well developed. Totally sucks you in.

[crimsonandclover]

Sept 21, 2016 13:26:06 GMT -5 kcrkcs said:

 
In the name of the wind is another great fantasy type read. It is well written and plot etc. is very well developed. Totally sucks you in.

I loved The Name of the Wind. I actually read it in the hospital while recovering from my c/s with DD3 Then I got the second book and went to get the third in the series and realized it's not finished yet!! And apparently fans have been waiting on the third book for a looooong time already. So I haven't read the 2nd book yet and am waiting for the author (Patrick Rothfuss) to finish the dang series before I get back into it. That's also the reason I haven't read past book 2 of A Song of Fire and Ice (Game of Thrones). I'm waiting until he's done. I made that mistake once with Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series and had to wait for freaking ever for him to finish, then he died and someone else finished it (actually Brandon Sanderson, who I recommended above). Anyway, be warned that The Name of the Wind is supposed to be a trilogy and there's no estimation of when #3 will be coming out.

[kcrkcs]

crimsonandclover rothfuss is killing me with this no 3rd book yet business. I have re read 1&2 multiple times. 😳 he needs to get on it!

[14joa31]

Thanks for the warnings about series that have no end date, ladies! That would be a rough one!

[crimsonandclover]

To be clear, several of the ones I mentioned are also not done, but they're so many books into them that you can get lots of enjoyable reading before you have to stop, and they're on a one book a year timeline (except outlander)