Book recs!

[brigdh]

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

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Kage Baker's Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key is an interesting take on pirates.

I haven't read them yet myself, but I hear very good things about Tobias Bucknell's Crystal Rain/Ragamuffin/Sly Mongoose series, which are Carribean-inspired science fiction.

Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber (or a lot of other books by Nalo Hopkinson).

Then there's Avram Davidson's Limekiller stories, which I didn't actually groove on but a lot of other people seem to like them and they're definitely Carribean if you count Belize. It's on the Carribean, it counts, right? Anyway you can have my book of those if you want. And i could loan you Hopkinson's Skin Folk and/or the Baker, but those I want back.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yay, pirates.

I was definitely thinking about bringing some Hopkinson, but since I haven't read anything by her before, I wasn't sure where to start. Midnight Robber sounds fascinating; someone else recced The New Moon's Arms, which also sounds wonderful; and I've heard a lot about The Salt Roads. Do you have any favorites of hers?

I haven't heard of the Limekiller stories before, but reading some descriptions on Amazon, I think I might bounce off of them, too.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Alas, no, I haven't read a lot of Hopkinson yet, but if you get other recs, pass them along?