Writers Who Do It For Me

• Scarlett Greyson (11 comments.)
  10:24 am on November 19th, 2009 1

  Oh I have all sorts of slipper books(Damn I love that term!)

  Right now I’m reading The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson. This is not a slipper book – I was turned onto this novel by a friend, so I’m reading it in bits and pieces. I can see it’s potential to become one though…it’s a gripping narrative.

  But, to answer your question, my slipper books include the following: Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel series(when I can get them from the library because for some insane reason I don’t own them yet!), The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Dragon and the Unicorn by A.A. Atanasio. There are others that I pick up less often but reread nonetheless…Caleb Carr’s The Alienist is one of those(I’d have to be in front of my book shelf to tell you others.

  Oh! And Nick Bantock! The Venetian’s Wife and the Griffin & Sabine trilogy. Both are immersive reads that can usually capture my attention no matter how crazy life is. The first is thoroughly illustrated and incredibly sensual. The second is a story delivered via postcards and letters between the artist Griffin and a strange woman, Sabine. You literally pull letters from envelopes glued to the pages. It’s a fantastic, intimate, voyeuristic pleasure.

  Beyond those, I have my online reads that I retreat to. Remittance Girl’s works never fail to grip me, and I have two guilty pleasures of the fan fiction bent – The Wonders of the House Presba(Star Trek Voyager) by Katrina and Llachlan and Melissa Good’s work(Xena:WP)

• Alison Tyler (14 comments.)
  11:09 am on November 19th, 2009 2

  I am an avid re-reader. My favorite books are so damn battered, it’s amazing the pages stay in. Actually, I was re-reading The Godfather on an airplane once, and the book was so well-used that every time I turned the page, it came out and I tucked it into that little pocket on the back of the chair in front of me. A man stopped me on my way off the plane to ask what book was so engrossing I was ripping out the pages.

  Here is my partial list:

  Getting It Right by Elizabeth Jane Howard
  The Godfather by Mario Puzo
  Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
  Blue Heaven by Joe Keenan
  The Snapper by Roddy Doyle (all the Barrytown books, actually)
  Daughter of the Queen of Sheba by Jacki Lyden
  The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan
  Wrecking Crew by John Albert
  Time Bandit by the Hillstrand brothers with Malcolm MacPherson

  You know, it’s funny but most of the books I re-read are memoirs. I don’t know why that is. With Wrecking Crew and Time Bandit, I have actually finished the books and started over at the beginning. Strange.

  XXX,
  Alison

• Neve Black (3 comments.)
  12:06 pm on November 19th, 2009 3

  Slipper books. Great term, Sommer. Yes, I am a re-reader too. Although I’m between houses, so nearly everything is packed in box in a building far, far away.

  Here’s a just a few that I find myself going back to over and over again:

  Cien Años de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude)by, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Topping from Below by, Laura Reese

  Like Water for Chocolate by, Laura Esquivel

  Frenzy by, Alison Tyler (a newer favorite of mine)

  The Best Poetry of Dorothy Parker, by Dorothy Parker

  I know I’m missing some. Let’s just say, the words in my favorite book slippers resonsate deeply.

  Thank you!

• Alison Tyler (14 comments.)
  2:01 pm on November 19th, 2009 4

  I know I’ve said this before, but my first real “slipper” book was TEX by S.E. Hinton. I slept with the book.
  And hi Neve—thanks for the nod! It’s so cool to see one of my titles in your list!!

• Sommer (23 comments.)
  2:32 pm on November 19th, 2009 5

  hey, i love these lists, Miss Scarlett, AT and Neve! Scarlett I have to look for the Gargoyle I read a snippet about it (typed abou tit 2x before i got it right )
  AT even sent ME a copy of the Godfather! ha!
  

• Willsin Rowe (64 comments.)
  9:27 pm on November 19th, 2009 6

  I have only two authors whose books I’ll read over and over: Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. I’ve read the Hitch-hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy series many times, and enjoy them every time. I’ve read most of Pratchett’s Discworld novels, and some of them, like “Small Gods” and “Guards, Guards” just sing to me and force me to read them again. I’ve never gone so far as to re-read a book I’ve just finished, though…I can’t skim, and there are SO MANY books out there that need me…

• Evie (31 comments.)
  7:07 pm on November 21st, 2009 7

  @Scarlett- I LOVE Griffin and Sabine! Gorgeous art, great story! Though I think it would have been better story-wise if he had stopped at the first book I just had to keep buying the sequels for the art.

  I reread Poppy Z. Brite’s Lost Souls now and then, and it takes me back to my mispent youth. Ditto for Freaky Deaky by Elmore Leonard. I also have a soft spot for The Hobbit, The Jungle Book (sexist and racist as it is), and Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently books are still funny no matter how many times I reread them.

• Selena Kitt (5 comments.)
  3:05 am on November 23rd, 2009 8

  That is a fantastic cover… I have to go find that book now!

 

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