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    I am an avid reader. I am now 52+ y.o. I decided over 20 years ago, I was no longer holding to my “If I start a book, I’m going to finish it” mentality! There are soooo many books written & published every year!

    My main love is a unique fantasy. New worlds, our world w/a twist, new currency, foods, morals, etc.

    Steampunk too (!)

    Pern by the Great Anne McCaffrey
    Immediately springs to mind even though I haven’t read since yr 2001

    Robert Aspirin MYTH series & His space series
    Terry Pratchett
    Robin Hobb
    Jim Butcher
    Patricia McKillip
    Gaiman (sp?)
    Etc

    The Thirteenth Tale

    The Ill Maid Mute

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    I like fiction that puts a historical event or time and retells history.
    Ex.
    Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet

    The Lake Palace by Ann Bennett

    A River Runs Through It (Notman McClellan so?. Lived in NW Montana. He came to our school and he talked about his writing and took a million questions.RIP)

    Ivan Doig 💞

    ……………

    I like autobiographies of non-famous people. People’s lives from everyday living, what they achieved, etc.
    Ex.
    Angela’s Ashes

    Sources of the River.

    Actually written about David Thompson who was a Lewis & Clark contemporary explorer. L& C got lauded, signs and such all over MT of where they travelled, named bodies of water etc. I never learned about Thompson until I was an adult! Travelled right through and around NW MT, ID & Wa…. Highly recommend if you also enjoy History written by someone who lived after them.

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    I could list more and more but hopefully, you get my gist w/I have to read my LOG of favs. 😉

    Thanks in advance! 👋

    Could you give a small blurb, or why you recommend a book or 10? Lol. 📚

    Little to no spoilers, please! 🙃
    💝
    …………….Happy Reading, sniffing books, loving your readers, sitting @ your local book seller’s and hopefully sipping a cup of tea, or reading while waiting to pick up your kiddos from school, whatever you do to read! I cuddle up w/2 Boston Terriers, tea, and snuggle read🦽🛌

    by Upstairs_Cause5736

    3 Comments

    1. AutumnalSunshine on

      – Ben S. Dobson “The Flaw in All Magic”

      – Robert Aspirin’s Phules Company books. I assume the space ones you mentioned where the Time series, but you didn’t mention Phule’s Company

      – Jasper Fforde’s books have great worlds that are either a twist on ours (the Thursday Next books) or a completely new everything (Shades of Grey). They have a lot of really clever world play and references like you get in the MYTH series

    2. Christopher Golden’s Myth Hunters (The Veil series): think of every creature from folklore you’ve ever heard of (and some you’ve not), with Jack Frost at the helm and an evil Sandman as a villain, and it’s a wild ride. One of my favourite series.

      Deborah Harkness’ A Discovery of Witches (The All Souls trilogy): a little historical fiction, some witches, a few vampires, a little romance, it’s got something for almost everyone.

      Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: If you can come to love a Pervect and a Klahd, not to mention Rincewind, you’ll love a zarkin frood like Ford Prefect. The books are a nice mix of humour and fantasy.

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