I used to read the Ask the Pilot column on Salon, so when this book came up on the Kindle Daily Deal list, I jumped on it. I’d always enjoyed the author’s columns, so figured I’d enjoy this too. It’s basically a primer in all things commercial aviation – from how pilots train, to […]
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I thought McKillip only had one scifi book – but it’s actually three. Moon Flash (and its sequel, which I have not yet read) could be mistaken for fantasy at the beginning, but turn out to be scifi as the story moves along. Kyreol is the daughter of the village Healer, in a simple
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I’ve been sitting on this book for a while – my only other experience with this author was the movie version of The Remains of the Day, which I loathed. (I think that was a case of seeing something with the wrong expectations or in the wrong mood – it’s been long enough I
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I have to admit, I’m a little sad I only have one book left in this series. I know I can count on these books when I want to be amused and entertained. The Wizards are up to their old tricks with the Enchanted Forest, and since Queen Cimorene is pregnant, everyone else is
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I still love this author’s use of language – she reminds me of Patricia McKillip – her landscape descriptions are amazing. I loved the first trilogy of hers that I read. I’m finding this series a bit more of a slog. The series is basically the story of the descendants of
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For something completely different, I turned to a Jane Austen interpretation. This one was meant to fill in the missing pieces of Darcy’s story – so we could see the thought process behind why he would decide to try and win Elizabeth Bennett after she rejected his first proposal. It’s not a bad book.
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Between Damia and the Music of Darkover, I was feeling a bit nostalgic, so decided to reread one of the actual Darkover books. This one is the tale of when Earth finally happened upon the lost colony, and the people of Darkover find out that they did not originate on their world. It’s an
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Furthering my reread of the Pegasus/Rowan books, I’ve moved on to Damia, which was actually my first experience with this series, back in the pre-internet days when it was harder to track down books that weren’t in bookstores, and you settled for what you got, even if it was out of sequence… Damia is the
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Published in 2013, this was the first new Darkover anthology in a very long time. The music theme apparently grew out of a submission for the planned anthology (Stars of Darkover – currently sitting in my TBR pile) that was based on a Darkover filk song, but was way too long to include
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This year, I read: There was one scholarly book on myths, and two books that were much more fairy tale than fantasy themed (An Earthly Knight and The Perilous Gard). All in all, a good Spring run.
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