I've almost completed
astrangerthere's reading challenge at Storygraph, but I'm missing a book for the April prompt:
Quote:
April - April Showers / April Fools- April Showers - a book about rain, weather, spring, or some kind of new blossoming
- ALTERNATIVE: April Fools - read the silliest or most foolish book on your TBR. Can be the title, subject, cover or just your perception that it being on your TBR list at all is silly.
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I'm ignoring the TBR reduction aspect of the challenge, and I'm obviously not trying to complete prompts in the right month, but I want to read at least one book for each monthly pair of prompts.
My taste in books:
- I read mostly fantasy, science fiction, and romance, but am also open to other genres, including non-fiction.
- I've found that my tastes are less intellectual than I'd prefer to think
I struggled through "The Name of the Rose" once, but usually I'll avoid dense, heavy books. I read for entertainment, any improvement of my mind is a happy byproduct.
- I prefer books with well-developed characters. (My main objection to Lord of the Rings (which I read once as a teenager and have never been tempted to return to) is that the characters are too flat for my taste.)
- For books with love stories, it seems far easier to find stories with a man and a woman, or with two men, so books with other romantic constellations are a plus.
- I don't mind explicit sex in books. I dislike explicit or gruesome violence (an almost DNFed Shelley Parker Chan's "He Who Drowned the World" for that reason, but am glad I stuck with it.)
- My worldview is pretty far left, and these days, books which offer some wish fulfilment in that direction are a plus (for instance when the arrogant marquess gets publicly humiliated and cheated of a fistful of emeralds by charlatans, the homophobic politician gets a kick in the nose by their gay relative who's finally had enough, or the racist, sexist brother-in-law gets a knife in the back at a hunting party
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Some favourite authors: Lois McMaster Bujold, KJ Charles, T.Kingfisher (I've not read all of hers, so recommendations from her back list are fine), Sarah Rees Brennan, Nathan Burgoine, Courtney Milan.
Any suggestions?