Books!

Quick, someone rec me a book or three. My biweekly library trip is tomorrow and I'm fresh out of ideas for things to read.

Please?

(Although I suppose I could just read fic, watch TV, and force myself to write over the next two weeks if I'm bookless...or I could delve further into my shelf of Classics I've Totally Been Meaning To Read For A While Now But Never Will Until Just This Sort of Situation...)

ETA: Most of you know my tastes, but for those of you who don't, I'll read practically anything except a straight romance. I have particular penchants for sci-fi, fantasy, quirky literary/mainstream fiction, humor of any stripe, travel writing, and historical novels or nonfiction, but really, anything goes.

Pictures, books

Finally got my (few) pictures from an excursion to the dam and reservoir up. Finally posting about it.

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Tonight I finished East of Eden, only about, oh, a year after I'd intended to. Er. Anyway, I take back all the bad thing I said about John Steinbeck in high school when I was suffering through The Grapes of Wrath, because this was awesome. Also, OMG pretty. Want to go to California now, please, especially if it really looks like it's described here. And as for the book itself...BSG fans, you know the whole "all of this has happened before; all of this will happen again" thing the characters keep saying? This book is all about that, as it traces different permutations of the same story through time, coming a bit closer to understanding and clarity each time, even knowing that full understanding is a fruitless quest. It's good, really.