Lou Recommends and Lou Disapproves Of!

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Yay!

I shall begin with a few book recs. 

Anything by Robin McKinley.  Now, to be fair, I have not in fact read all of her stuff, but so far I haven't gone wrong at all.  Mostly classic high fantasy, with a lot of the newer stuff being more urban, and actually still GOOD.

Watership Down.  If you have not read this, you must.

The Sinestro Corps War, vols. 1 and 2.  This and the next are comic recs.  This one is exciting, well drawn, well written, and features copious amounts of Guy Garner and villains both being awesome, something I always want in my comics.

Any of the newest Blue Beetle books.  These things got me into comics a few months back, and very little since has lived up to them.  The characters are likable, the writing is both funny and suspenseful, and "homicidal alien artifact attaches itself to your spine and refuses to let go" is the best origin story ever.

Civil War Blunders.  An excellent look at the Civil War, blackly humorous and tragic at turns.  Really humanizes the history.

And Lou disapproves of...

The House of Night vampire books.  Mary Sue is special!  Mary Sue has three boyfriends!  Author mouthpiece will now segue into out of nowhere speech about how religion is evil!  Look at Mary Sue's new abilities!  Isn't Mary Sue special?  You wanna know the other reason I can't hate Twilight?  I've read these.

Whatever Marvel has against happily married couples lately.  THERE IS A REASON I DO NOT PURCHASE YOUR STUFF.  Luckily this doesn't seem to be spreading into DC, which is against happiness period but at least is keeping Supes and Lois Lane together so far knockonwood.

And what else does Lou disapprove of?  Oh, yes.

I will take you as seriously as you want to be taken...  ONCE YOU LEARN HOW TO SPELL.