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13 Authors I Love Right Now




Yeah, you can probably guess a lot of these without the 13, based just on what I blog about. But I was looking at my shelves last night, thinking about which books I keep and why, and then wondering about some books that I’ve kept for ages but haven’t re-read recently.

1. L.M. Montgomery. She was my very fist glom as a kid, before I even knew what a glom was. I loved Anne and Valancy. Emily was okay and Pat was just tolerable. Love The Tangled Web and some of the short story anthologies, too.

2. Lois McMaster Bujold. I’ve blogged about her before, so I won’t bore you again. But if you haven’t read The Curse of Chalion yet, what’s stopping you? If you aren’t willing to drop the cash on an unknown author, check out the free short stories by LMB at Baen and the excerpts on her website

3. Jane Austen. Persuasion. Have you ever read the original ending? Even JA needed to draft, because the first ending was, shall we say, disappointing? “I can listen no longer in silence . . . I am half agony, half hope...” gives me goosebumps.

4. J.D. Robb. I know, she’s not to everyone’s taste, and a lot of readers think that Born in Death is a little stale, but I love how she has flipped the male-female gender roles between Eve Dallas and Roarke.

5. Megan Whalen Turner. Eugenides the Thief is the most intriguing character I’ve read about all year. King of Attolia is on my Best of 2006 list.

6. Naomi Novik. I think her writing style could use some editing, but her world-building and historical research in the Temeraire books are excellent.

7. Anonymous Lawyer. I laugh my ass off when I read his blog, and I’m reading his book now.

8. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I should probably re-read One Hundred Years of Solitude, but I think I’m going to pick up Living to Tell the Tale first. Fascinating. When’s the next installment of his memoirs going to be published, I wonder? Oh, I see that a collection of short stories is being released next week. Woo hoo!

9. Carla Kelly. I picked up Marian’s Christmas Wish after reading Kate’s SBD post about Regency holiday short stories. How does she manage to take all of the clichés of trads and still manage to come up with a good story?

10. Tamara Pierce. I think the conventional wisdom is that TP’s earlier Tortall books are best, but I love her Trickster books enough to re-read them regularly.

11. Indu Sundaresan. Go get a copy of The Twentieth Wife. Right now. You’re welcome.

12. Whoever wrote Eats, Shoots and Leaves. The author’s name escapes me and I don’t feel like going back to bn.com to look it up. Hurt myself I laughed so hard. And I need to find a copy of the parody, Eats, Shites and Leaves.

13. Jim Butcher. Do I even need to explain why?




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