I'm having the worse time finding books lately. Partly it is because my library has, lately, been buying nothing but the sappy cishet romances I don't care for, along with a lot of genealogy books and kids books. (I am all for buying kids books, but this means less SFF for me.) Partly, I think, it is that my standards have upgraded. Books that would have been perfectly acceptable to me, say, five years ago annoy and bore me now. Possibly I have just read too many excellent books. I cannot put up with dreadful one.
Also it is that my favorite authors are writing books too slowly. Please, I need more books. Quit your day jobs!
This week I took six books out of the library two days ago and I have DNF'd all of them. Well, I am still trying to read The Professor and the Madman, because I am desperate, but it is slow going.
I still have War and Peace, which I never got around to reading last summer. Maybe I will read that. That will keep me in reading material for at least a few days.
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There's still more Anthony Trollope on Gutenberg... Or did you dislike him?
Time for rereads? My KJ Charles collection has been getting its pixels pretty well worn since after I DNF a bunch of stuff sometimes I need her as a palate cleanser to remember that some books are actually very good.
No, I liked him! More Trollope, that's a fine idea!
I've been doing a lot of rereading, but I'd like something new as well.
When I first got my kindle many years and one child ago, I spent some time going through the gutenberg library sorted by ratings. I actually did find some gems among the cruft and racism.
Also, your tastes and mine don't have a ton of overlap except with books that are objectively excellent, but I wonder if you might enjoy the better books by Raphael Sabatini and Samuel Shellabarger. I don't know if the suck fairy has visited them since my last read, but Captain Blood is/was delightful. Scaramouche was fun. Captain from Castile surprised me with ... being ahead of its time.
I do like KJ Charles, and I haven't read all of those yet. I've kind of avoided the Gutenberg library. Something about their formatting annoys me, I don't know why.
I suspect you would really enjoy the Sins of the Cities series by KJ Charles if you haven't read them yet. They're a bit dark for me so haven't gotten a reread, though I did enjoy the lighter next generation (Lilywhite boys) immensely.
Every public library I've been to has a hard copy of Captain Blood. Looks like yours may also have Scaramouche and Sea-Hawk.
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