Come with your broken dreams and your ruined fancies

[sovay]

I dreamed last night that I asked for comfort reading recommendations and came away from the bookstore with a recently reprinted YA novel about a crew of downed airmen raising a baby in a German POW camp in World War II (a childhood favorite of several people in the dream) and a relatively new lesbian mermaid romance with a gorgeous tropical cover (almost certainly influenced by this gifset and photoset). I was looking forward to reading both of them and was somewhat put out when instead I was woken by Harvard Vanguard calling to remind me of a doctor's appointment tomorrow at nine in the morning.

Now I'm just curious. What do people read when they want comfort reading? I re-read Strong Poison (1930) right before the 'Thon and am three-quarters of the way through Have His Carcase (1932), which very possibly counts.

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without looking at anyone else's

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary.
A Brother's Price by Wen Spencer.
The Harper Hall trilogy.
A College of Magics.
Tamora Pierce.
Sharon Shinn's Fortune and Fate.
Some other things I'm not thinking of and will smack my head over momentarily I'm sure.

RE: without looking at anyone else's

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Yes to Komarr and yes Robin McKinley!