Book meme

[wesleysgirl]

Gacked from ephemera

The book(s) I am reading: I actually just finished a book and haven't yet started the next one, but the next one waiting to be read is Emma Donoghue's Stir-Fry.

The book I am writing: A gay erotic romance that is so close to being completed it's laughable that I've been putting it off so long. It's about family - the things people do for their blood relatives, and the ways people create their own families.

The book I love most: Oh, seriously? How can I possibly choose one? That's impossible. I could probably create a fairly accurate list of my top 10 or 20... One book I love very, very much is Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow.

The last book I received as a gift: I don't remember! I got several books for Christmas but I can't remember which the "last" one was. I guess I'll randomly list The Butcher and the Vegetarian by Tara Austen Weaver.

The last book I gave as a gift: Gift books were most recently doled out at Christmas-time, and included things like books 5 and 6 in the How to Train Your Dragon series.

The nearest book on my desk: I'm sitting on the couch so the nearest book is in the foyer (closer than it sounds, our house is tiny!), and that's Sarah Waters' Affinity.

Comments

[dancetomato.livejournal.com]

The Sparrow is one of my favorites, along with A Prayer for Owen Meany and, interestingly since you mention her, Emma Donoghue's Room.

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

I'm in the queue to get Room from the library but there are many people ahead of me! I adored her book Landing...

(And I loooooove Prayer for Owen Meany.)

[dancetomato.livejournal.com]

We inherited a Kindle and the first book we got for it was Room. We were both so blown away, we went and bought the hardcover.

I got Landing right after I read Room, but I couldn't get into it. I think it was just so different from Room and frankly anything I read after that book was going to disappoint. I need to go back to it.

[kristiinthedark.livejournal.com]

I haven't read a book in a few months, but i am VERY ready to read your gay erotic romance, I'll say for sure.

[kimberly-a.livejournal.com]

I recently read Emma Donoghue's Room and was very impressed, though it is one of her few books that doesn't center around gay/lesbian themes. I liked her writing, especially her characterization, and so I'd be interested in hearing what you think of Stir-Fry.

The Sparrow is one of my favorite books ever! I didn't expect to like it so much, since religion doesn't interest me and the Catholic Church in particular tends to offend me on many levels, but I was surprised to find that a book in which many of the main characters are Jesuit priests wasn't actually about religion. At least, that's not how I interpreted it. (Though I *do* think it's about faith.) But it moved me deeply, and I have reread it more than once. I find that it only improves with repeated reading. I wasn't as fond of the sequel, but I suppose The Sparrow is a difficult act to follow. I was seriously underwhelmed by her non-genre novel A Thread of Grace, but I still intend to read more of her work in the future, because I'm looking for that magic I found in The Sparrow.

I don't know if I ever thanked you properly for the book you sent me at Christmas. I know I thanked you when I *received* it, but I don't think I let you know how much I appreciated it once I opened it. It is especially meaningful to me because it is about an issue we share. So thank you.