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A Resolution and a Plea for Help
One thing I'd like to do this year is get back to doing things I really enjoyed when I was younger. I started writing for pleasure beyond LARPs, and rediscovered how much I enjoy it and why I would stay up until the wee hours of the morning just typing away on Notepad on the old 1992 Dell machine in my room when I was in high school. (Which is why this journal now exists.)
One other trend I dislike is how much my reading novels has decreased. When I was younger, I'd take out 8 novels from the library and be begging my mother to take me back to get more by the middle of Week Two. Nowadays, I'm lucky if I finish one novel in a month. And I really hate that.
My brother must be psychic, because for Christmas, he got me a gift card to Barnes and Nobel (he's awesome like that). I also got a gift card to Borders, because I'm an equal-opportunity consumer whore in terms of bookstores. Alas, I cannot fling myself at the shelves, and thus must be a little more judicious in my choosing of how to use these gift cards.
So, Obi-wan Flist, you're my only hope. Are there any books out there that are OMG-get-thee-to-a-bookstore-you-must-read-this-RIGHT-NOW? I have to admit to a certain fondness right now for science-fiction and fantasy, specifically:
but, I'll take recommendations for almost anything. Really. I'm desperate.
One other trend I dislike is how much my reading novels has decreased. When I was younger, I'd take out 8 novels from the library and be begging my mother to take me back to get more by the middle of Week Two. Nowadays, I'm lucky if I finish one novel in a month. And I really hate that.
My brother must be psychic, because for Christmas, he got me a gift card to Barnes and Nobel (he's awesome like that). I also got a gift card to Borders, because I'm an equal-opportunity consumer whore in terms of bookstores. Alas, I cannot fling myself at the shelves, and thus must be a little more judicious in my choosing of how to use these gift cards.
So, Obi-wan Flist, you're my only hope. Are there any books out there that are OMG-get-thee-to-a-bookstore-you-must-read-this-RIGHT-NOW? I have to admit to a certain fondness right now for science-fiction and fantasy, specifically:
- post-apocalyptic
- urban fantasy (world of magic coinciding with Real World. Examples: Neverwhere and American Gods by Neil Gaiman, Drinking Midnight Wine by Simon R Green)
- "science fantasy" (magic and spaceships)
- near-future cybertech
- actually, anything cybertech, information tech, etc (from Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson to Matrix-esque type stories)
but, I'll take recommendations for almost anything. Really. I'm desperate.