Book recs!

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I'm going on a cruise in January! Wheeeeeee! It's for ten days in the Caribbean. I find this to be pretty totally exciting; I've been on one cruise before, but this time I get to go in winter (escaping the cold!), with rm, for longer, and it's all just pretty awesome. But what I am coming to you for, O LJ, is book recs. Because, hey, it's a cruise! I need appropriate lounge-type books to read while lying in the sun. I'm looking for any kind of book (novel, short story, non-fiction, travel, poetry, whatever), as long as it makes for interesting, easy reading. Rec me cruise-type books! However, bonus points if:

- the book is set in or about the Caribbean, especially: the Bahamas, Grand Turks, Dominican Republic, Bonaire, Curacao, or Aruba.

- the author is from the Caribbean.

Comments

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I hope you have a wonderful time!

Not about the Caribbean, but I've been recommending Jim Hines to anyone who will listen-- I read The Stepsister Scheme this summer and just got The Mermaid's Madness. They're clever, respectful to women, and tweak fairy tales in interesting ways. And they're pretty breezy.

If you haven't read poetry by Derek Walcott before, now is the time. He was born in St. Lucia and is super awesome.

Alexandre Dumas, père, had a Caribbean creole grandmother, as you may remember from 50books_poc. I've been meaning to read something by him again ever since I learned.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oo, I have not heard of Jim Hines before, but he looks totally fun! Thanks for the rec. Derek Walcott also sounds awesome.

I'd been avoiding Dumas because the most recent thing I read by him was not so good, but I really should go and read some of the classics I never have, The Count of Monte Cristo particularly.