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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2013-05-09 08:20 am

Well, so I'm still online

Anyone have any suggestions for books available in ebook format that are light, fluffy reading for my day at home with a cold? I do have the most recent Stephanie Burgis (Regency YA with magic) and her short story. Other than that, the book I'm currently reading is the second Bess Crawford mystery, which is WWI nurse as sleuth and therefore is a wee bit heavy. :) Fantasy, mystery, SF, historical, nonfiction fine.


(well, I also have [personal profile] yhlee's anthology, but the prose requires careful attention from me which I am not able to give at this point in time.)
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[personal profile] oracne 2013-05-09 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you read Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch? It's urban fantasy, British writer, wonderful first person voice that carries you along.
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[personal profile] oracne 2013-05-09 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Then umm, TEMPTING DANGER by Eileen Wilks? It looks like it might be typical UF at first, but is in fact so much better. Female Chinese-American cop heroine. And werewolves.
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[personal profile] estara 2013-05-09 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I totally second the recommendation for the whole World of Lupi series, but I wouldn't call it light and fluffy... only if you call Patricia Briggs Mercy Thompson series light and fluffy, too ^^
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[personal profile] lnhammer 2013-05-09 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I call Mercy Thompson "shaded and fluffy."

---L.
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[personal profile] estara 2013-05-09 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, then of course ^^
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[personal profile] estara 2013-05-09 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
True!
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[personal profile] oyceter 2013-05-09 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I got Marcus Samuelsson's Yes Chef from my library. Haven't read it yet, but food writing is almost always light comfy reading for me. I also enjoyed Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo's Provenance, which is a really fast-paced look at John Drewe's immense art forgery scheme. I went on a tear through Meljean Brook's Iron Seas series, which has mechanical kraken, nanobots, and pirate airships (skip the first book, the hero is awful).
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2013-05-09 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Starts off fairly fluffy and is slice-of-life: Debora Geary's A Modern Witch series.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2013-05-09 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!