The Lost Salt Gift of Blood

As Birds Bring Forth the Sun

No Great Mischief

Books to be read out loud, two collections of short stories and a novel about farmers and fishermen and miners from Cape Breton, the big island at the northern end of Nova Scotia, rooted in a Gaelic-speaking oral bardic story-telling tradition.
Sonorous prose in an unbroken melody, not unlike George Moore’s Brook Kerith.

Kind of a silly question, but what is chick lit? Books along the lines of Sex in the City?

I highly suggest the Kushiel’s Dart Series by Jacqueline Carey. It was unlike any other series that I had every read before and it has a bit of everything in it: a little fantasy, action, sex, spiritualism.

”.........i want to read outside my comfort zone (better known victorian classics especially), but you should know i {absolutely refuse} to read chick lit…....”

LOL! This made me laugh out loud because I feel the same way, however, it has recently occurred to me that Austen and Bronte, to use just a couple of what could be many examples, were probably the “chick lit” of their time in the opinions of some…..still…...Brigit (sp?) Jones Diary and the like, ie, modern “chick lit”....makes me gag. They’re…..wretched. But they’ve been very popular. One womans wretchedness is another woman’s summertime beach read. Many of my friends read only chick lit and those equally wretched women’s magazines. (Cosmo, et. al.) I don’t share their enthusiasm for them, but each to her own, at least they read, and that’s an inherently good thing…....I don’t hold it against them. Much. LOL

EDIT! OH! Congrats on completing your Peace Corp stint! Wunderbar!