Books.
I'm behind on my book-recording!
I finally finished Johnathan Strange and Mr.Norrell and I was quite pleased with it. I think it did suffer from a bit of the "stopped more than ended" problem, but that's forgivable in my book.
I finally read Good Omens, which I enjoyed quite a bit. The copy that I read was not mutilated in the slightest.
Hrm.. I think I haven't even mentioned Alien Taste. I love Wen Spencer. Well, OK, she's a new writer, and has lots of ideas and needs a little work. Hopefully, as she gains practice, she won't lose her ideas. It's really the ideas I like. She definately has some SF "shortcuts" that she uses, but I'm OK with that.
Lesse.. I fell in love with A midwife's Tale, this one about a woman who was midwife to the Amish. I'm not certain that any individual Amish person and I would get along well, but I have the utmost respect for their lifestyle. I think I should make Pax read this one when I'm pregnant.. it was "real" enough without being overly graphic or textbooky.
I plowed through at least one Leaphorn + Chee Tony Hillerman novel. About a casino robbery. Which was pretty interesting from a sociology viewpoint. (Hillerman writes award-winning books about the Navajo).. I've also read a second Hillerman novel, this one WITHOUT Leaphorn or Chee! Finding Moon was about a newspaper reporter in South Vietnam in 1976, trying to find his dead brother's daughter. I read Hillerman for psychology/sociology, but he writes a good yarn, too. I just started another Navajo mystery, The Blessing Way, which I think might be the first one.
Hrm.. there was a book about a woman living alone in a log cabin she built in the Adirondacks. The writting needed some polish, but the biographical nature made that a forgivable sin.
I've also started Draco Tavern and The Prodigal Summer.
I guess I've been a busy reader the past few months!
I finally finished Johnathan Strange and Mr.Norrell and I was quite pleased with it. I think it did suffer from a bit of the "stopped more than ended" problem, but that's forgivable in my book.
I finally read Good Omens, which I enjoyed quite a bit. The copy that I read was not mutilated in the slightest.
Hrm.. I think I haven't even mentioned Alien Taste. I love Wen Spencer. Well, OK, she's a new writer, and has lots of ideas and needs a little work. Hopefully, as she gains practice, she won't lose her ideas. It's really the ideas I like. She definately has some SF "shortcuts" that she uses, but I'm OK with that.
Lesse.. I fell in love with A midwife's Tale, this one about a woman who was midwife to the Amish. I'm not certain that any individual Amish person and I would get along well, but I have the utmost respect for their lifestyle. I think I should make Pax read this one when I'm pregnant.. it was "real" enough without being overly graphic or textbooky.
I plowed through at least one Leaphorn + Chee Tony Hillerman novel. About a casino robbery. Which was pretty interesting from a sociology viewpoint. (Hillerman writes award-winning books about the Navajo).. I've also read a second Hillerman novel, this one WITHOUT Leaphorn or Chee! Finding Moon was about a newspaper reporter in South Vietnam in 1976, trying to find his dead brother's daughter. I read Hillerman for psychology/sociology, but he writes a good yarn, too. I just started another Navajo mystery, The Blessing Way, which I think might be the first one.
Hrm.. there was a book about a woman living alone in a log cabin she built in the Adirondacks. The writting needed some polish, but the biographical nature made that a forgivable sin.
I've also started Draco Tavern and The Prodigal Summer.
I guess I've been a busy reader the past few months!