Genre of Choice:

Fantasy primarily, a goodly amount of science fiction, and a dash of pretty much everything else.
(If I haven’t read anything in a genre, I go out of my way to sample a bit.)

(Current) Favorite Books:

Penric & Desdemona by Lois McMaster Bujold
(this is actually a series of novellas, but they are wonderful and the characters are sweet and the relationships adorable and the perspectives fascinating.)

God Stalk by P. C. Hodgell
(A story about a not-very-religious monothiest in a city full of gods. It’s all very frustrating for her. I like it.)

Hikaru no Go by Yumi Hotta and Takeshi Obata
(This is an adventure about kids playing boardgames, and yet it is awesome)

Comfort Books:
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
(I love the characters and I love the pastries.)

This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
Isle of the Dead by Roger Zelazny
(Okay, I just really like immortals and people with god-like powers. They make me happy, and Zelazny does them well.)

Seven Daughters & Seven Sons by Barbara Cohen
(It’s just a really done fairytale and I love that none of the characters are perfect, each has their own weaknesses, but that it’s sort of beside the point, because the point is that there are goals and there are desires and the goals must be met first.)

anything by Lois McMaster Bujold
(I grew up with her Vorkosigan series, the Sharing Knife series is really cool, and the Chalion series also has gods and god-like powers in it.)

Most Proud to Have Read Book:
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
(It’s a long book, it’s historical drama and it has periodic mathematical word problems, but it’s also really, really good.)

Books That I Couldn’t Finish:
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
(This was assigned in high school and it just broke me. It was so boring, and to the extent that I could make myself care at all, I hated every single character.)

Tales of the Otori by Lian Hearn
(I should like this series. I really should. But frankly the historical Japanese culture was a bit too off-putting to me.)