[Hammerhead88]

I am thinking of doing my wife one of these Xmas boxes where there are 12 individually wrapped books and you open one at the start of each month and read it that month.

She doesn't really read fantasy (generally reads things like Matt Haig, Sally Rooney, book club type books etc etc).

I have got a few books that I know she will love already, however I want to thrown in a few fantasy/sci fi/graphic novels to mix things up.

I was thinking something like lumberjanes or Saga for the GN, maybe Neverwhere for the fantasy book, things that are reasonably accessible for someone who hasn't ready any/much fantasy.

Does anyone have any other suggestions that might work?

[Macros]

Neverwhere all day long. Superbly accessible book

Or Legend by Gemmell, fantasy yes, but short and not magic being going everywhere

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Macros, on 29 October 2019 - 02:37 PM, said:

Neverwhere all day long. Superbly accessible book

Or Legend by Gemmell, fantasy yes, but short and not magic being going everywhere

Both of these are excellent choices.

Would throw in a vote for Katherine Arden's The Bear and the Nightingale as an option to look at too - it is fantasy but it's heavily folklore based and is set almost solely in the Russian winter, so quite seasonal in that sense too.

This post has been edited by TheRetiredBridgeburner: 29 October 2019 - 02:42 PM

[Tiste Simeon]

First book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would probably go down well. Have the others ready to go when she wants to read more!

[Salt-Man Z]

Maybe Helene Wecker's The Golem and the Jinni?

[Abyss]

CROOKED LITTLE VEIN!!!!!!!!!




...you can thank me later once the Godzilla bukkake and mooing dies down.

[Macros]

Tiste Simeon, on 29 October 2019 - 03:05 PM, said:

First book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would probably go down well. Have the others ready to go when she wants to read more!

Good grief no.

If you want something in that vein give her Prachett. Hitchhikers was bloated and grossly over rated IMO

[worry]

Nimona is a pretty great fantasy graphic novel with a lot of humor (and some heart). Likewise, On A Sunbeam is a sci-fi graphic novel that has a lot of lovely art and character moments.

[Hammerhead88]

Thanks all - have added the bear and the nightingale, the Golem and the Jinni, Nimona and Crooked little vein to the list (and Neverwhere which was already on there).

I have Hitchhikers guide and all the discworld books already (she has read a discworld book already and quite liked it).

[QuickTidal]

Hammerhead88, on 30 October 2019 - 02:08 PM, said:

Crooked little vein

I'm 95% certain that Abyss was joking with this one. Even if you were going to give her some Warren Ellis, this batshit insane tome would not be the one to use.

What about NATION by Terry Pratchett. That's a great little standalone.

[Abyss]

Abyss, on 29 October 2019 - 05:43 PM, said:

CROOKED LITTLE VEIN!!!!!!!!!
...you can thank me later once the Godzilla bukkake and mooing dies down.

Hammerhead88, on 30 October 2019 - 02:08 PM, said:

Thanks all - have added the bear and the nightingale, the Golem and the Jinni, Nimona and Crooked little vein to the list...

QuickTidal, on 30 October 2019 - 02:15 PM, said:

Hammerhead88, on 30 October 2019 - 02:08 PM, said:

Crooked little vein

I'm 95% certain that Abyss was joking with this one. Even if you were going to give her some Warren Ellis, this batshit insane tome would not be the one to use.
...

You are 100% wrong. .

...99% if i acknowledge there was Godzilla bukkake humour involved regardless....



It's a fun book, one and done, short, has an actual story, is not actually particularly graphic for all that it refers to or infers, and FFS Godzilla bukkake.

[Hammerhead88]

I think im going to roll the dice on crooked little vein

[Abyss]