Just books. (Maybe.)

[lady_schrapnell]

Too tired to do this! Kept messing up the img tag....

Anyway, finished John M. Ford's The Last Hot Time last night, and it was great. I found bits a tiny bit tedious (Doc's sexual worries especially), and - here I go again - didn't like the female romanctic lead at all as much as a lot of the other characters, but I still really enjoyed it, and think it would well reward a reread. Don't know what it is about John M. Ford, but I always find I've to read him extra-slow to understand what's going on! The set-up was wonderful, and reminded me a lot of the Borderlands books. Elves and Faerie done as the opposite of mistily romantic, but not just the opposite in black-and-white heartless/cruel either. Great stuff.

Now started on The Alienist, which I'm using to restart a ring, for which I was up next. I'm going to leave it at that, as the next step would be to greedy ring/ray stallers and book hoarders and I'm trying to avoid that here. And now. Oh, and hypocritical criticisers of anyone who dares to speak up about such behaviour. Right. Avoid. I'll just take myself off to start kneading dough for pizza, which might get rid of some of this irritation!

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Re: Rereading John M Ford

[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

Very cool. Do you know who started the Liavek world - was that Emma Bull and Will Shatterly? It IS a shared world, like Borderlands, right? I should really check all this out myself, but have only borrowed two Borderlands books and found one other myself, in BookCloseouts. Might well be begging for a loan after you've read it.

(Writing on a lunch break, dripping bread crumbs on the keyboard instead of on the Iliad as I eat.)

Duh.

[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

Bordertown, woman!

Re: Rereading John M Ford

[generalblossom.livejournal.com]

About Borderlands and Liavek, dunno much, have read nothing of Borderlands, and Liavek, just a couple Ford stories ( one in Casting Fortune, another in another anthology of his). The Liavek book is, goes checking, the fifth volume, Festival Week. Sure I can loan you, but please let me loan it to you before I read it, this book is not too high in my TBR pile, I just got these hoarding instincts because bargains and sales for such books here are rarer than the proverbial hen´s teeth. Let me know when you want to read it!