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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[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

My comfort reading is Howard Schwartz anthologies (particularly Elijah's Violin and I'm currently working my way through Tree of Souls), fairy tales and fairy tale theory, literature and theater and movie biographies, the giant cross-over fanfic that akawil got me into when we were first dating.

From the novel end, Mirable and Hellspark, Carter Beats the Devil, All Star Superman (not technically a novel), The Velveteen stories, Tam Lin, The Child Garden, The Westing Game, The Last Unicorn, A Deepness in the Sky, A Fire Upon the Deep, A College of Magics, most L'Engle books, but not House Like a Lotus, and there are probably quite a lot more that I'm not thinking of, because it's nearly one a.m., and I have to get on a conference call in an hour, because my job.