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[readingredhead]

So...getting back in the swing of things here. Everyone just moved in today (as in all of the other people at Berkeley) and classes start Wednesday. That is not enough time for me to do all of the things that I need to do between now and then, of course. It's not a long list but it's rather meaty. Ugh

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[pippins_smile]

Hahaha, your annoyance at multiple exclamation points makes me laugh; I'm always torn between actually expressing written excitement versus following rules of grammar.

Exclamation Points‽

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I just read my first Czerneda book, A Thousand Words for Stranger, and I'm...not quite hooked, but definitely going back for more next time I go to the library.

Exclamation points are OK, but when I'm not doing serious writing I try to use the interrobang as much as possible. *grin*

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[readingredhead]

I'm a pretty big Czerneda fan...it's not even always her writing that I like, but for whatever reason I always find myself falling in love with her characters. They're fun, quirky, real, and human (even when they're not, if that makes sense). Plus I love how weird yet intriguing some of her concepts are.

Stranger is one of my favorite books of hers...it's her first novel, and while the writing occasionally shows this, it's also got this fantastic sincerity and earnestness to it, IMO.

When you finish with the trilogy that Stranger started, I'd recommend her Species Imperative trilogy, the first book of which is called Survival.

Overall, my favorite books of hers are probably the ones she's still working on -- her prequel trilogy to Stranger et al. The second book of that trilogy is what's coming out in September.