March Suggestion box

[james_davis_nicoll]

Waiting for the last few books on my to-read list to come in. Open to suggestions, particularly for more recent books.

I cannot recall who asked me to read the Rational Harry Potter but it has defeated me. May I review something else?

Comments

[ckd]

I think I have a few sponsorships worth of Patreon queued up, actually....

Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold
Silver on the Road, Laura Anne Gilman
Farthing, Jo Walton
Updraft, Fran Wilde

(Two older, two quite recent.)

[thebluerose.livejournal.com]

Oooh I really enjoyed Silver on the Road - quite different in feel to most other stuff.

[dsrtao]

Silver on the Road I liked a lot. Weird West appears to be a microgenre at this point -- possibly also scratching that itch: Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith's Stranger, Steven Gould's 7th Sigma.

[phantom_wolfboy]

How are you using "microgenre"? Smaller than a sub-genre, bigger than a trend? Or something else?

[dsrtao]

Somewhere in that range, yes.

[thebluerose.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this, I hadn't heard of Stranger and my library has a copy!

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

On the to-do list. Would have done the Bujold earlier but I thought that I had done it.

[ckd]

I had hoped you would after doing the review of Curse of Chalion, since I selfishly wanted the review without using a sponsor slot for it. :-)