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Migraining today, so not enough energy to do the what I've been reading.. but I can do the 60 Essential SFF Reads meme

What I've read from renay's 60 Essential SFF Reads:

Bold = read, italics = read another book by the same author, strikeout = didn't finish

Grimspace by Ann Aguirre
Primary Inversion by Catherine Asaro
The Handmaid's Tale by ( Read more... )

Read: I finished Black Ships. I loved the setting, which made me poke around corners of wikipedia. Story was OK.

After that I started Marguerite Reed's Archangel. Which I should like, but just wasn't into at the time, so I picked up some fluff. We'll see if I get back to it ( Read more... )

Read: Finished The Quartered Sea. I think it ends up the least good of the series, and I have issues with it that aren't worth bringing up on decade old book that nobody else has read.I followed it with The Traitor Baru Comorant. Which I adored while reading it, and am side-eyeing now. Partially because I kept seeing reviews that mentioned the ( Read more... )

Read: I learned while randomly bopping around Amazon that one of the romances that I'd heard good things about but wasn't willing to pay over $10 for (and my library hadn't picked up) was on sale. It was a close call, but the well done food porn and family feels of Sonali Dev's A Bollywood Affair was stronger than my dislike of the hero's ( Read more... )

After several mostly headache free weeks, this has been one full of rebounds, usually hitting after work. Maybe I can sleep it off this nice long weekend.

Read: Summary for the last week and half is alternating exciting fast reads and slogging through the Exordium series. After putzing my way through and finishing The Phoenix in Flight, I ( Read more... )

I didn't post last week because I really wasn't thrilled about anything I tried. I'd bounced off a romance, then the first of the two books I bought when they came out that Tuesday (Kate Elliott's Court of Five starts of with horrid infodumping). I enjoyed the other new book (Aliette de Bodard's House of Shattered Wings), but it wasn't thrilling ( Read more... )

I'm going to try this again

Finished in last week
For some reason, I decided to reread the entire October Daye series (by Seanan McGuire) before reading the newest one. I've been reading them as they come out (one a year) since book two. I started a week and half ago, and I just finished book 6, Ashes of Honor.

CurrentlyStill poking at 1587: ( Read more... )

First, Book View Cafe is running a half off sale on their ebooks. Book View Cafe is a writer coop - a group of authors that got together to put their unpublished or older books out as ebooks. They include several of my childhood favorites including: Vonda McIntyre, Judith Tarr, Katherine Kerr and Ursula Le Guin. Also, they offer books in both ( Read more... )

I feel so guilty that I've let this meme slip. But I was reading enough other posts... For once I don't have a list of new books to try - instead the theme is Barbara Hambly. Maybe I'll have to reread some of hers. Or finally try her Star Trek novel.

Currently Reading
Sarah Ash's Prisoner of the Iron Tower. It's book two in her Tears of ( Read more... )