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Originally Posted by hildea
I've almost completed astrangerthere's reading challenge at Storygraph, but I'm missing a book for the April prompt:
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? |
For April, I read
Liarmouth by John Waters. I enjoyed it. It's a really odd book with some really odd characters. But then it's written by John Waters (the director).
I can also recommend
Under the Whispering Door or
The House in the Cerulean Sea both by TJ Klune