and St George!
Apr. 23rd, 2013 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livBack in 2010, I celebrated St George's day by setting up a book-recommending meme. I had a lot of fun with it, and discovered some cool new books, and expressed my fluffy-liberal-patriotism in a way that feels comfortable to me. It seems to be in the spirit of ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
three_weeks_for_dw since people are making an effort to meet new folk, so I think I'll run it again.
The idea is that you comment and recommend me a book, and I will rec you one in return. If I don't know you you can give me some clues as to what you like, or you can let me guess based on a snap judgement from scanning your profile. I'll keep trying until I find something you haven't read and like the sound of.
For my tastes, here's 10 years of booklog, if you're really keen. I read most genres with some preference for science fiction. I want books with good characters, then plot tied about equally with interesting ideas, and I like beautiful prose but I'd rather have a book with merely functional language and interesting characters than the other way round. I don't particularly care for horror or most action / thrillers, especially not if there's graphic violence. But I'm willing to expand my horizons if you suggest something really good! In any case I'm very happy if you just suggest something that you yourself like and you think isn't well known. Oh, and as well as English I read French and can sort of manage Swedish if it's not too dense / old-fashioned.
Who's on?
three_weeks_for_dw since people are making an effort to meet new folk, so I think I'll run it again.The idea is that you comment and recommend me a book, and I will rec you one in return. If I don't know you you can give me some clues as to what you like, or you can let me guess based on a snap judgement from scanning your profile. I'll keep trying until I find something you haven't read and like the sound of.
For my tastes, here's 10 years of booklog, if you're really keen. I read most genres with some preference for science fiction. I want books with good characters, then plot tied about equally with interesting ideas, and I like beautiful prose but I'd rather have a book with merely functional language and interesting characters than the other way round. I don't particularly care for horror or most action / thrillers, especially not if there's graphic violence. But I'm willing to expand my horizons if you suggest something really good! In any case I'm very happy if you just suggest something that you yourself like and you think isn't well known. Oh, and as well as English I read French and can sort of manage Swedish if it's not too dense / old-fashioned.
Who's on?
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Date: 2013-04-30 09:05 am (UTC)It's a coming of age story set 20,000 years ago, in what is now Siberia. The author doesn't patronise or sentimentalise her hunter-gathers; she's an anthropologist and these are real characters leading complex and interesting lives. The animal parts of the book are also really good. And if it helps at all, I hated Clan of the Cave Bear with a deep abiding hatred.
P.S. If you enjoy world-building at all, this book is wonderful.
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Date: 2013-04-30 05:13 pm (UTC)Have you read Keri Hulme's The bone people? It's quite distressing in that it's partly about racism and child abuse, but it's also really beautifully written and extremely original. Several of its characters are from Maori backgrounds and it has a really strong, haunting sense of both place and culture.
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Date: 2013-04-30 10:32 pm (UTC)