SantaThingSantaThing Entry #260
LibraryThing member micksbooks99
Book tastes
I like reading noir and neo-noir mysteries (I own all the Ross Macdonald, James Ellroy, and Dashiell Hammett novels and stories), I like reading high fantasy books and urban fantasy books especially series like The Dresden Files and Mercy Thompson and Tanya Huff's Blood Lines series (less sex and more monsters). I also like reading nonfiction books about art like Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, What It Is by Lynda Barry, and How to See by David Salle.
Don't get this!
Romance, Christian fiction, nonfiction about politics or the environment or poetry.
Other notes
A few books I am excited about that I do not own are The Story of Art Without Men,
Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly, Nightwork by Joseph Hansen, Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again by Shigeru Kayama, and The Big Book of Reel Murders: Stories that Inspired Great Crime Films.
Secret Santa
micksbooks99's Secret Santa was knerd.knitter!
Purchasing Details
Store: Powell's (http://www.powells.com)
Gift Amount: $50 (USD)
Comments/suggestions
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- urban fantasy: Brown Girl in the Ring (Nalo Hopkinson)
- nonfiction about writing (especially spec fic): Never Say You Can't Survive (Charlie Jane Anders), free on the Tor website, but I've heard the audiobook which she reads is also good (nov 29, 2023, 11:44pm)