Reading Reading Reading.

[lit_gal]

Thanks so much for the advice on "abet" guys. Um... I got so much good advice that I don't think I'm going to answer all those comments because WOW... ya'll are logophiles! I'm trotting right along with my Moonridge stories. I'm discovering all sorts of things about the characters by writing this story. And the manips have now been beta'ed and

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[sparrow2000]

It's funny, Maz has just introduced me to C J Cherryh. She lent me her battered copy of Angel with the Sword at the tail end of last year and I just loved it. My Christmas present was the Chanur saga trilogy which is sitting on my shelf calling to me. Shit I can't believe I haven't read a book book in 6 months, it's just been so crazy, but that's first on my list when things finally calm down.

[lit_gal]

I love summers because I can read. I collect a pile of books all year, and then in summer I get to slowly read through the list. It's pure joy.

[sosaith]

I had a very similar reaction when I read La Casa en Mango Street. It was the first book I had ever read in Spanish, and I wanted to like it more than I did.

I appreciate the book recs as, since I discovered fanfiction, I've spent a lot less time reading actual books.

[lit_gal]

Yeah, I can appreciate the language enough to want more, but more just is not there.

[swanpride]

C.J.CHerryh is great...it is the only Sci-Fi author I read. Sadly her books are very hard to get in Germany. My favourite in the pretender series is the second volume. Have you ever read Tripoint?

[lit_gal]

I'm so sorry she's hard to find over there because she is great, and yep to Tripoint. I still think my favs by her are Foreigner series and Chanur series.

[swanpride]

Yeah, I had to read part 4-9 of the foreigner-series in english...which is really hard to do with all the "new" words. If I hadn't known the first three books in german I would have never managed (but it was worth it).

Chanur is one of the few books I haven't read...yet.

[raissad]

I read Mango Street for one of my lit courses and had the same reaction. There was no drive, even collected vignettes need drive.

[lit_gal]

Yeah, that's it.... you don't feel any suspense or involvement. They're just vignettes, and I don't much care what happens to the characters.

[shakatany]

C. J. Cherryh is one of my two favorite SF writers (the other being Lois McMaster Bujold) and her Foreigner series is one of the best. I've been reading SF since I was 12 and after decades of reading it I'm sort of gafiating except for those 2 and a few others. Like one of your other commenters, I'm doing most of my fiction reading online these days.

Shakatany

[lit_gal]

I haven't read Lois McMaster Bujold (*adds one more name to the need to read list*) During the school year, I read more fanfiction, but in summer, I do enjoy relaxing with a good old-fashioned book, especially since during the peak hours, my electricity costs three times more than off-peak hours, so the computer is off off off in the hot afternoon.

[shakatany]

She writes both fantasy and SF and it's the latter I truly adore. She invented the most marvelous character called Miles Vorkosigen. The books should be read in chronological order starting with "Shards of Honor" where his parnets meet and then "Barrayar" where he is born. I think you'll love his mother Cordelia and Miles too. During the series he grows from about 17 in HIS first book to a newly married man in his 30s. I love that he actually grows and changes (he's no Nancy Drewish character). Try her asap.

Shakatany

[shakatany]

In addition you might like "Ethan of Athos" also set in the Miles'verse where the hero comes from a planet of only men - no women!

Shakatany