I have discovered that there is nothing like sitting next to a fireplace as it snows rabidly outside your window. Of course, this picture wouldn’t be complete without a few *cough* dozen *cough* books at your side and a mug of mint hot cocoa consisting mainly of rapidly melting whipped cream (personal preference). Now, I understand that this may seem frightfully similar to most settings for either dreadful Christmas specials shown on family channels or to “The Shining” (rarely shown on family channels), but it is worth the sentimentality. So here’s my list of six books that are great for next-to-fireplace reading (not necessarily all top 5 list of Aella Siofra AGGH-this-is-the-19th-time-I’ve-read-this material).
- Poison by Chris Wooding
- Glorious macabre. It’s just to great to be reading about bone witches and fairytale non-conformists as banshee winds scream outside
- Fly By Night by Frances Hardinge
- Political intrigue and stuffs. Very good for intensity.
- The Bloody Jack Series by LA Meyer
- Piratical, hilarious, and full of banditry. Need I say more?
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
- More remnants of my nail-biting shelf. It took me three years to read this, but as I look back it’s not too scary. But Ray Bradbury + evil carnivals of doom = awesome at any age.
- Anything (As in- in general or whatever you can steal from the library- not a book title) by Eva Ibbotson
- Connect with your inner child... before it’s too late
- Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
- Set up is reminiscent of 19th century airships. A bit like Treasure Island with a female protagonist added in for a sterling display of sheer awesome
Feeling heinously sappy and eying logs for spider holes,
*Aella Siofra*
7 comments:
Me like fire.
me also. i have pyromaniac issues.
hmmm....i've read all but two of those.
i wish it was snowing here! was supposed to, but then we got none. *whining* might snow Friday though....
hmmmm....goood fireplace books....well, i sort of don't have a fireplace but yeah....
i don't really know any....when i think of books + place to read them, i'm more of a in-the-dark-in-ur-bed-at-midnight kind of person. that is fuuuuun, man.
though my parents now think i should be getting 10 hours of sleep a night while they get less than five. :( LAME!
ahh well. what else are flashlights for?
I've read the Bloody Jack Adventures (since you're a fan have you been to:
http://z13.invisionfree.com/Bloody_Jack/index.php?act=site
?) Poison, and Airborn (and Skybreaker, and I want to read Starclimber when it comes out). I don't remember if I've tried anything by Eva Ibottson, though.
Curse you and your snow-and-fireplace-having? Where do you LIVE, that it snows in winter? The sun here doth shine bright.* This 'snow' is a strange phenomenon indeed.
*And yet somehow it's still cold. Well, cold to me. Which is like, 55 degrees. But I digress.
Photosynthetic, cold, and yours,
Aislinn Ai
PS *cough*reese*cough*pyro*cough*
PPS EVA IBBOTSON FTW!!!!
eewww, heat.
if i look three inches to the left of the computer screen, i have a view of snow-covered pine trees. yeah.
also, 55 degrees = balmy.
i walk home with just a t-shirt and the coat my mom thinks is too light to the point of hypothermia in half that.
like, today, for instance.
on the down side, this abudence of snow has not resulted in snow days (plz postpone my bio honors quarterly...)
also, my location has resulted in what my friends claim is a Jersey accent, at which time i curse them out and critize thier pronounciations (srsly. Hi-ARR-ious or Hil-AIR-ious?)
but i get to see New York City...
but it's so damn cold.
but wait. i love the cold. hot weather makes me unhappy.
Reese: caveman much?
But anyway, those books are awesome (especially the Bloody Jack series).
And 55 degrees is hot! Here it's around 10 degrees, but *meteorologist voice* with wind chill it feels like 10 below....
damn it all, I wish fall would come back....
*shifty eyes*
No. No caveman here.
*Shuffles sideways*
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