I have to say I adore Sherri Tepper. The first book of her's that I read was Gate to Women's Country. I read it during a patch of watching my women friends get run over by the men in their lives and Tepper became a touchstone. I haven't read all of her stuff but so far I think I have liked The Fresco best. I have never been able to think of "ugly disease" without laughing.

As an author I read for three reasons. Pleasure, pure escape and Ideas. Sword Song is the fourth in Cornwell's historical fiction series on the Saxons and the period of formation when the Saxons were trying to expel the Danes and Norsemen. You may know Cornwell by his Richard Sharpe series. I highly recommend them all.

Greg
www.gregoryjsaunders.com

I second that gis!!!

Bernard Cornwell - top hole writer.

Patricia Cornwell is good too. It's a pity they are both Co's and right at the very top of the ladder in our shop.

Mary Lupin Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 2:25 pm

I have to say I adore Sherri Tepper. The first book of her's that I read was Gate to Women's Country. I read it during a patch of watching my women friends get run over by the men in their lives and Tepper became a touchstone. I haven't read all of her stuff but so far I think I have liked The Fresco best. I have never been able to think of "ugly disease" without laughing.
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I've always found it rather exciting to remember that there is a difference between what we experience and what we think it means.

And I have to say I am growing to adore Mary Lupin! Where have you been all my life? I think you and I have many a pleasant and stimulating book and life discussion in our future. (At least I hope so.) I have been catching up on your posts here that have been taking place while I was inactive and I am convinced that you have much to teach me. I also have had several life-changing dreams, like the one that caused you to choose your user name, an account I thoroughly enjoyed, so I feel a distinct sense that we might share other affinities. What books are your favorites that I might not have read yet?

Starting Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin today now that I have finished everything else I was reading.

http://www.anobii.com/grim/books

I finished the Hitchhiker's Guide and am now reading Riptide by Preston and Child. It is pretty good so far. Usually I read non-fiction but am on a run of fiction right now. I need to escape--lol!

My mother will have to tell me to stop reading and come eat. Since I'm like this I have a hard time reading 2 books at once. Right now I'm reading A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly and The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray

GentleReader9 wrote:I also have had several life-changing dreams, like the one that caused you to choose your user name, an account I thoroughly enjoyed, so I feel a distinct sense that we might share other affinities. What books are your favorites that I might not have read yet?

Goodness. Bet you hug people too.

I was taught how to interpret dreams as a young person and have been involved in that since so I tend to have a very strong dream life. I think it is the original source of my love and admiration of metaphor.

As for books...I am 52 and have been reading voraciously since I was about 4. It would take me a very long time to remember all the books that have been important in my life. I also read a rather diverse set of things. For example, one critical book in my childrood was Abbott's primer on Geometry. I also loved mythology. And Mao's Little Red Book. My "imaginary friend" was Van Nostrum's Scientific Encyclopedia (I was 7 I think). Then there is ethnography and aesthetics and cognitive science and poetry and evolutionary biology and the history of ideas...

Give me some limits. What books (movies, TV shows, etc) make you really, really happy right now? That's what matters I think. That it gets to you where you live.

Tully by Paullina Simons

Finally reading All the Pretty Horses, hard to get at my library, got lucky Sun. Also, Joyce Carol Oates, collected stories about famous writers. In my nightstand drawer, The Soprano State, I live there.