brain-wracking underway

It's been 2 years, but I there's still no better words than "trousers" or "house", and they both have the wrong sound for this book.

Oh English. You fail me so infrequently, I just can't quite believe this.



in case of any suggestions: home is to personal to be used, though it's sound is better, and pants is also too sibilant and wrong-vowelled. All other words are of the wrong era.
Trouse and House must come from the same forebear language to English, and it's the wrong one... :(

Obsessive Book Lover's Month of Books - Day Thirteen

A Double-Feature!

Talk about a book or a few that made you go out and shamelessly foist it/them on all your reading friends. Moreso than usual.

 The Thief. The King of Attolia. Beauty.

I'm a pretty hopeless foister of books, but I generally try to customize to the person I'm talking to, get a feel for their interests. Beauty and The Thief I can live with someone not loving, but I just don't *understand* it.

fabricalchemist  talked about her brother being patient with her reading aloud some of the books she listed for this question. I made my brother sit down in our hotel in Yonezawa, Japan, in the days after our move, and read Beauty to him. Reading aloud to people is a way of telling them a story very dear to me, and of retelling it to myself in a more vivid way, by speaking the words. I think this was definitely a self-comforting move, though I didn't know it at the time.
 

What type of character particularly draws you into their story?

I like bold but cunning people. People I enjoy hearing talk, so they are generally witty, too.

In other words, I like to spend a book with characters who are as smart or smarter than me, but who take that as an opportunity to do amazing things. This is true in my writing, too--I especially like it if they have some further talent--music, sport, it doesn't really matter what. The same kind of people I seek out to be my friends in real life, really.

The most important facet is the sense of humor, which is a product of wit and talent. I've discovered I only put books down even if I'm interested in the story when there is no wit.

 

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