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brigdhWhat did you just finish?
I Am an Executioner: Love Stories by Rajesh Parameswaran. A book of short stories, each of which is about love, though only in the broadest and vaguest of ways. There's a story about a tiger in love with his keeper (hint: it doesn't end well), a wife who accidentally kills her husband by wishing it so, a sci-fi story on a planet of giant bugs about the love of a father for his daughter. The title story is about an executioner and his unhappy mail-order bride, as well as his odd relationship with a young girl in the prison he helps run. All of the stories were very well-written and interesting; I'll have to look for more by this author.
The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold. Miles Vorkosigan goes on vacation after failing to get into military school; he and his friends end up involved with a war, a mercenary army, and charges of treason. I didn't like this book quite as much as the first two in the Vorkosigan series, possibly just because Cordelia is my favorite and she was not much in this one. I did very much like Elena and her story arc, though, and I hope she shows up again in later books.
What are you currently reading?
The Fire's Stone by Tanya Huff. Canon OT3, whooo!
India: A Sacred Geography by Diana Eck. Non-fiction about pilgrimage and sacred places and how they both relate to the "idea" of India.
I Am an Executioner: Love Stories by Rajesh Parameswaran. A book of short stories, each of which is about love, though only in the broadest and vaguest of ways. There's a story about a tiger in love with his keeper (hint: it doesn't end well), a wife who accidentally kills her husband by wishing it so, a sci-fi story on a planet of giant bugs about the love of a father for his daughter. The title story is about an executioner and his unhappy mail-order bride, as well as his odd relationship with a young girl in the prison he helps run. All of the stories were very well-written and interesting; I'll have to look for more by this author.
The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold. Miles Vorkosigan goes on vacation after failing to get into military school; he and his friends end up involved with a war, a mercenary army, and charges of treason. I didn't like this book quite as much as the first two in the Vorkosigan series, possibly just because Cordelia is my favorite and she was not much in this one. I did very much like Elena and her story arc, though, and I hope she shows up again in later books.
What are you currently reading?
The Fire's Stone by Tanya Huff. Canon OT3, whooo!
India: A Sacred Geography by Diana Eck. Non-fiction about pilgrimage and sacred places and how they both relate to the "idea" of India.
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Date: 2013-10-16 07:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-16 08:05 pm (UTC)Ha, no, I missed it on fight club! Someone posted it to an ebook community recently (maybe it was you?) and I thought it looked good and downloaded it then.
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Date: 2013-10-16 08:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-16 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-16 09:49 pm (UTC)WRITE ALL THE FIC NOW.ahem, i knooooow. They are just all so good, alone and together. Their presumed happy post-finale life is my happy place.no subject
Date: 2013-10-17 07:12 pm (UTC)AND YES. I've finished it now, and the end with the wedding is SO CUTE! And Aaron offering to steal a baby!
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Date: 2013-10-17 12:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-17 07:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-18 01:20 pm (UTC)http://laeria.livejournal.com/3895.html#comments
I mean, nothing actually happens in it! But it's sort of complete, I guess. Enjoy!
(Laeria is me; laeria am I; I love changing LJ identities and got the same itch again recently but happily I managed to quell it)
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Date: 2013-10-18 08:40 pm (UTC)(And ha, you are my opposite. I hate having to change my screen name.)