Ok so it’s only KINDA annual cuz my life apparently always falls apart during the summer…and it’s not REALLY summer anymore, but I’ll make sure and do this better next time
Here is last years thread on the matter
I’ll make the format the same as I did when I started this the first time:
Feel free to write down a genre of books, an author, a series, whatever you feel necessary and ask for that. Or if you have a specific book you’ve been dying for ask for that too!
This can be used books, new books, anything you want!
I’ll leave this thread open for a month and then we can go from there.
e-mail me at straightdopebooks@gmail.com and let me know your user name, real name, address, and whether or not you can ship internationally. Also mark here when you’ve signed up
This worked out well in the past and I hope we can all play this month!!
I enjoy lots of different sorts of books, especially mysteries, fantasies, non-fiction, and literary fiction. Some favorite authors: Colin Cotterill, Lindsey Davis, Terry Pratchett, Daniel O’Malley (Yes the Rook!) Currently reading A Game of Thrones, Connolly’s The Book of Lost Things, Midnight’s Children, and This Is Not the Story You Think It Is. I love nonfiction, too, especially science that’s written for the layperson and reads like fiction (Mary Roach, Carl Zimmer, David Quammen, that kind of thing). I also enjoy YA and children’s books; I’m just about to start the 3rd in the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy by Laini Taylor.
Books I’d love to read sometime: Spectres in the Smoke by Tony Broadbent; Bonobo Handshake by Vanessa Woods; The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond; The Violinist’s Thumb by Sam Kean; Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms by Richard Fortey; any mystery you’ve ever loved and would recommend unless it’s a real cozy; any fantasy you’ve loved and would recommend.
Don’t worry about buying me anything new unless you really really want to. I am very happy with used books.
For the person who gets me, I like mysteries, especially British ones. I also like cookbooks, especially the ones you get from church groups or schools, the kind where all the people involved out in their best recipes. I don’t really cook, but I enjoy reading them and thinking that if I did cook, these would be good.
Bumping with my own selections, in the hope that people notice this a bit more:
I am a huge murder mystery fan! My favorite author of that genre is Boris Starling and I have all his books to date, even the ones under his pseudoname of David Blake.
Since the Swedes are apparently the kings (and queens) of modern murder mystery I am reading the stories of Lars Kepler. If I had to make a request it would be that I have heard good things about Jo Nesbo but I haven’t read anything by him (her? them?) yet.
I do have the Dragon Tatoo/Hornets Nest trilogy and enjoyed them, so anything along those lines would be great!
For variety I also like behind-the-scenes books like Moneyball, BOTH late-night wars books, and a book about the birth of the NFL network, so those are always welcomed. And if you want to send a classic book I am always in the mood for that!
Oh, and my reading preferences vary. I like fantasy, horror, mysteries (esp. medical, as long as the medicine is fairly accurate) and historical fiction.
Urban Fantasy and murder mysteries seem to be the soup du jour right now.
I am especially interested in getting the first 20 or so of the In Death series by JD Robb
Also the John Rain books by Barry Eisler have recently sparked my interest. I have #4 but would kinda like to start at #1.
I’m plugging thru Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch series, the Sandman series by Richard Kadrey and recently became intersted in the Peter Grant books by Ben Aaronovitch.
Used books are fine so long as they aren’t falling apart (I’m kind of hard on books, they travel in my bag and get beaten)
I would like anything by Mary Roach (I’ve already read Stiff), good historical fiction, and have just discovered Robert Rankin (currently reading The Brightonomicon). Used paperbacks are fine as long as the print isn’t too small. Please show mercy to a woman with bad eyes.
Now is this like the white elephant exchange, where we send books we have?
Since people are identifying what they like, it might be hard, if, for example, the person I get likes Western and biblical fiction.
Of course, I will read whatever I’m sent, because, that’s just the way I am. :D:cool::D:cool:
Last year the person that I had wanted a kind of book that I didn’t have, so I went out and bought it and they really appreciated it (at least they say).
So if the person you get happens to have the tastes of a book you have, and/or want to get rid of then by all means send it, but don’t feel like you HAVE to give second-hand or HAVE to buy new
No romance, please. Victorian, Edwardian, medieval, mysteries are all good. I loved the first two of Rothfuss’s Kingslayer trilogy, the first two Debra Harkness’s, Pratchett, Guy Gavriel Kay, and Lev Grossman’s Magicians to give you an idea. I’m not a fan of Jim Butcher (too creepy for me). Does that help?
I don’t like Butcher either, but for different reasons. I need to read Rothfuss, I’ve only just recently heard of him. Have you read Susanna Gregory’s Matthew Bartholomew mysteries? Set during and just after the Plague years of mid 15th century Cambridge, I like them rather a lot.
