I went through some old Christopher Moore books for fun, but now I have to ask -
Here are some numbers with sentences by them:
1. Not too long, I love Dune but I don't have time for another epic novel.
2. I don't want them to be really recent because I'm getting them from the local library!
3. I do love poetry (Ginsberg, Plath, Wallace Stevens), and it'd be fun to read more.
4. I will not read romance, Twilight, or Agatha Christie (I only really like Poirot, and I've read all of those books).
5. I enjoy nerdy things like Esperanto.
So, if you can help...that would be wonderful :)
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Just about every library has a copy. :)
Hmm, Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn popped into my head, of course it's not concerned with Esperanto, but it uses language in interesting ways. It's fairly short, came out in the early 2000s, and hopefully your library will have it.
#3 -poetry
Perhaps you'd be interested in some wolf/werewolf "poetry"?? This book might be utter crap for a poetry lover, but it's the only *novel* I can think of that has a poetry base. You might find it interesting...I dunno.
Sharp Teeth - Toby Barlow
^^^both of the above books I mentioned I got @ my local library when I first read them, so hopefully yours has one or both of 'em, also. And I'd consider them "light" reads, which is what I'd want in your particular situation. ;-D