Anyone have random book recommendations for something fun to read?
@LexYeen oh shit this just reminded me that I still need to finish Dresden Files!
@starkatt Ann Leckie's Ancillary series is FANTASTIC scifi and full of the genders. HIGHLY recommended.
The "Bobiverse" series by Dennis E. Taylor is very run of the mill gender-wise but really well written scifi as well.
"Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig is sort-of a semi-modern philosophical text and one of my favorite books of all time
Also "The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg is a really interesting book dissecting mental habit patterns and how they work.
@mawr :D I've read the first and third of those, and will check out the others!
@starkatt Hmm, anything Terry Pratchett/Discworld is really good. Monstrous Regiment is one of my faves, and requires no familiarity with the world.
If you havr access to comics, possibly Unbeatable Squirrel Girl?
Any of the Craft Sequence from Max Gladstone, but especially Full Fathom Five.
Bone Dance by Emma Bull.
Anything Ian McDonald, but especially Out On Blue Six.
The Quantum Thief (and the next two) by Hannu Rajaneimi
I could go on. All of those are /fun/. :-)
@emanate that's the second or third time I've had Bone Dance recommended to me! Will check it out.
@starkatt I brought a few if you want to dig in my bag
@starkatt given the chance to push the thing, Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Dancing in the Streets,” Ursula LeGuin’s “Buffalo Gals.”
David MacDonald’s “Running with the Fox” for obvious reasons. Spoiler is for basically a non fiction book, it has a damn sad ending.
@acetone_kitten uhh, the first third? :/
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Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson