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Sword of Sorrow, Blade of Joy
Sword of Sorrow, Blade of Joy by J.F. Lee
Adventures among the lakes and rivers, as they call the martial arts world in China. It starts with a runaway girl trying to hire a swordsman to escort her home.
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Arranged Companions
Arranged Companions: Marriage and Intimacy in Qing China by Weijing Lu ( Read more... ) -
Beyond Kings and Princesses
Beyond Kings and Princesses: Governments for Worldbuilders by Oren Litwin ( Read more... ) -
Georgina
Georgina by Alida Leacroft
In the early 19-century, a young woman, Georgina, returns from Africa, where her father had died as a missionary, her mother having died on the return journey.
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Brain Games for Blocked Writers
Brain Games for Blocked Writers: 81 Tips to Get You Unstuck by Yoon Ha Lee
A selection of tricks for the writer who does not prosper when given an orderly structure. A number involve trying different structure, such as filk songs or limericks or screenplays, but there's a lot of variety. -
Tinsel Rain
Tinsel Rain by Moe Lane
The Fermi Resolution book 3. Spoilers for Frozen Dreams ahead, and it's really a sequel for that. Morgan Barod does not directly relate to it, though it will explain some of the world-building.
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The Book of Difficult Fruit, by Kate Lebo
This is a difficult (heh) book to categorize. Part natural science, part memoir, part cookbook. The chapters are A-Z of mostly fruit, although Lebo does sometimes play it a little loose--sugarcane, dandelions, a few other things that are not, strictly speaking, fruit. Although if you think of fruit here more as a concept than a scientific ( Read more... )
