I still don't really like books with fighting in them, but I _did_ love Ysabeau Wilce's Flora Segunda

I am a fairly late convert to literary fiction. I didn't read any of it until college, but even until maybe the summer of 2009 (when I was 23), almost all of my reading was science fiction and fantasy. That summer, I realized, "It's absurd for me to want to be a writer; all the famous writers that people talk about are just names to me."

I think I starte…