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Omg I was about to fall asleep when I wrote that. Thanks for dealing with my eloquent review.

The Name of the Wind (kingkiller chronicles) is really good in a childish way. It is (they are) books you probably won't put down because each chapter is like 5 pages and they all end with, "and then the room suddenly went dark!" or "and that's when he heard the roar!"

They're good and exciting and fun and seem like they're written by someone who never took English Literature 101. Which, turns out the author is a professor of.

Actually, more like he had a series of wonderful sentences, poetic sentences, that he wanted to use and had to invent a plot around them.

My other favorite childhood series is the Magic the Gathering trilogy that starts with Whispering Woods. Whispering Woods (Magic: The Gathering, Bk. 2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0061054186/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_HC5WAbYX36YCG

It says Book 2, but it's the first in a trilogy ending with Final Sacrifice. The first magic book was a standalone.

Whispering Woods follows Greensleeves and her brother Gull. If you're a druid/nature person, this series is cool. Really cool. And there isn't any, "crossed her arms under her ample bosom" bs." It's just a druid being awesome.

I just started the Malazan Book of the Fallen series (on the third book). It starts with Gardens of the Moon. It's interesting, brutal (not in a Martin way, in a murder and descriptions of war way), and a little "arms crossed under ample bosom." I've been enjoying it because of the surprising twists taken to weave the storylines together. It is a male dominated book with some (maybe like 3 or 4?) extraordinary women.

Edit: and your recommendations?

Edit 2: and yes, I still never pick my cats up by the scruff of their neck. I don't know if it's true or not, but I honestly trust Morwen on this more than I trust a vet :-p

Hey, infants and toddlers need books too!

Yummy Yucky was a favourite in our house. So were Dinosaur vs Bedtime and Goodnight Gorilla.

Getting a little bit older, my kids loved all the Arnold Lobel books and so did I. They were/are among the very few of my kids' books that I never ever got tired of reading over and over again, night after night.

Personally I loved the Madeline books and the Babar books, my daughter liked them but I could never get my son into them.

This was a huge favourite for both my kids in the toddler/preschool years. I can still recite some of those stories from memory (and do).

The original Thomas the Tank Engine stories are really charming. If your nephew ends up taking an interest in trains and that sort of thing, this is a gorgeous book.

eta: almost forgot: Maurice Sendak is essential. My kids can both recite Chicken Soup with Rice from beginning to end.

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde.

After a preliminary test on a minor character that wouldn't be missed, the worlds second most evil man has gone into the original manuscript of Bronte's classic and is hunting the title character in an act of literary terrorism. Spec Ops Thursday Next of the Book Crimes division has to go inside the same book -- she reads herself into it -- and save Jane without messing up the story or getting caught on its pages if somebody in the real world happens to be reading that passage right now. She has to stay on the margins, literally. And be home in time for tea.

Everyone LOVES it. It's the first in a series of Thursday Next books. If you grew up on Harry Potter and majored in Literature but Monty Python and all the absurdist British comedies warped your sens of humor then this is for you.

It is one of those books you keep two or three copies of in case you run into someone literate and interesting who hasn't read it yet.

It is first in a series of seven and another one is on the way. It is hysterically funny, brilliantly intelligent, and weird as it sounds. The author trolls the readers (in one of the books, a chapter is written in a new font that causes the reader to forget anything written in that font as soon as they turn the page -- go ahead and prove he didn't). Just wild.

Thursday Next is one of the smartest, most complicated, flawed, fully developed female protagonists in recent literature.

It's hilarious and wonderful and weird.

Plainsong by Deborah Grabien. I've never encountered anyone else who has heard of it but it's one of my favorites. It's a post-apocalyptic novel about religion, has talking animals, and is totally charming. It's kind of hard to explain but it's really good, especially if you're into theology or history.

Here's the amazon link with a short summary, it can be bought for $0.01 + shipping. I really recommend it! It's a quick read but worth it.

I'm actually looking for a copy of Hiketeia lol.

The new 52 Wonder Woman series is FANTASTIC! The new 52 is a great jumping on point for new readers as well. Vol 1: Blood

Haha! She'd be thrilled! I'm pretty sure she sees the scribbles as a vast improvement. :)

You can get a free sample on amazon (or just use the look inside option and read several pages. This one is in there, so you'd see what happens after this page.)

I would put a chapter here for you, but I have no idea how to do that.

So far on my list are:

• Forgiveness
  
  
• Peace from Broken Pieces
  
  
• Dragon's Lair
  
  
• Assertiveness for Earth Angels
  
  
• City of Heavenly Fire
  
  
• What I Know for Sure
  
  
• Whatever strikes my fancy from Scott Cunningham
  
  
• a book written by a fellow redditor that isn't published yet
  
  
• Edit: The Body Book and Eat Right 4 Your Type
  
  and whatever else comes my way, whether it be a suggestion, catches my eye at the bookstore or something I've found on the internet :) I'll be looking through the lists here for inspiration.
  
  

Of course infants need books. My brother has to have something to read to him.

I got him Dr. Seuss's All Aboard the Circus McGurkis yesterday, with the wrapping paper and a note to ask for more if he likes the story or just thinks the board book tastes good when he gums it.

The Lightstone series, particularly The Lord of Lies. I LOVED Zindell's Neverness series, but this one was difficult for me to get started with. The first chapter of this are characters talking about past events, but in context, so they are talking how they know them, out of order, their significance, which is harder for the recap - I really needed an objective recap, or even some poetic chronicler's recounting in italics in a prologue. And the same chapter is simultaneously throwing ALL THE FANTASY NAMES and ALL THE FANTASY POLITICS at you that it was just too much.

I finally stopped and grabbed another book from the other room, coincidentally called Lord of the Night. Though pulpier, that book had a fantastic first chapter. So dripping with mood that you could taste it and savor it as you gnawed the chapter down to the bone.

After that, I recommend Difficult Conversations: how to discuss what matters most.

I'm re-reading 'His Majesty's Dragon' (excerpt), I guess it's historical fiction. I have no idea where the book came from, I think one of my friends must have left it when they borrowed a book.

My gift to myself.

This one, released November of this year:
http://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Coloring-Book-Scholastic/dp/1338029991

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. I tried. I really did. But it's dull and condescending and really, the author is not autistic.

Also, THIS version of THIS book. The illustrations are amazing. Don't settle for the cartoonish versions. There are religious overtones because it's Saint George and he's the Red Cross Knight but there's no proselytizing.

https://smile.amazon.com/Saint-George-Dragon-Margaret-Hodges/dp/0316367958?sa-no-redirect=1