idiosyncreant | Obsessive Book Lover's Month of Books

Have you found a reading soulmate? Describe why someone would be yours.

I dunno, mate, but for manga rhinemouse and I have freakishly similar weaknesses. Particular tastes skewed from each other enough she's read a lot of stuff I never clicked into in my searches, and it seems like the reverse is also true...

things I have infected her with, because that's kind of an interesting angle to put to this question...

It's really interesting to meet a whole circle of people who share some of your more obscure book-loves, like the sounis people.
It almost takes the ground of your superiority out from under you, so you eagerly probe until you've covered all the things you've both read.

I don't yet know of a person who has been able to recommend to me, spot on even 80%, novels I would like, but I sure do love reading other peoples' reviews...some people, like rachelmanija , are good enough at articulating why they did or didn't like a book that I can know when I'll have the opposite feeling about it. The art of reading reviews is really in seeing the bigger picture even from the stupid drivel ones, and using the language as a code, to be translated to your own lexicon.

and these are the ones that she got ME reading

to be frank, these two little mini-libraries do say a lot about our respective areas of expertise [And why do hers have all the cool covers? Sheesh. ]
Basically, she finds the fighting ones, I find the ones with tons of interesting/odd characters. But I really like the (physical) fighting ones!