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As I'm recovering from the winter's asthma and it's after effects (fog traps air pollution and there is more pollution in winter due to wood fires, high air pressure, etc. Asthma means a course of steroids. Steroids lead to muscle loss. Hypermobility combined with muscle loss means that I inevitably injure some muscles while trying to regain muscle strength. Muscle injury leads to chest pain, etc.) the brain cells are returning and I'm reading more books.
I seem to be buying a lot of books recommended by or written by friends.
Currently in the reading queue are: Clean Sweep by Illona Andrews (recc'd by (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
feng_shui_house), Bride of the Rat God by Barbara Hambley, (might have been http://sallymn.livejournal.com/ ), Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner (think that was a friend of a friend) and The Crimson Outlaw by Alex Beecroft. There are some other recs that I need to go back to now I'm in a better state of mind.
Just completed 'Remnant Population' by Elizabeth Moon. She writes excellent Space Combat novels, but this particular book is very different in nature. It's the slow-paced story of an elderly woman who chooses to stay behind when her colony is evacuated to another world. She's a very believable protagonist. Aches and pains, a love of gardening and a good touch of bloody-mindedness.
Being on her own allows her to do as she wants and to throw off some of the social conventions that have irked her. She can value herself on her own merits, rather than being subject to the whims and opinions of others.
It's also an alien first-contact story with a twist that I love (even while conceding it to be improbable)
I've read this book before, and I'm sure I will read it again.
I seem to be buying a lot of books recommended by or written by friends.
Currently in the reading queue are: Clean Sweep by Illona Andrews (recc'd by (
feng_shui_house), Bride of the Rat God by Barbara Hambley, (might have been http://sallymn.livejournal.com/ ), Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner (think that was a friend of a friend) and The Crimson Outlaw by Alex Beecroft. There are some other recs that I need to go back to now I'm in a better state of mind.Just completed 'Remnant Population' by Elizabeth Moon. She writes excellent Space Combat novels, but this particular book is very different in nature. It's the slow-paced story of an elderly woman who chooses to stay behind when her colony is evacuated to another world. She's a very believable protagonist. Aches and pains, a love of gardening and a good touch of bloody-mindedness.
Being on her own allows her to do as she wants and to throw off some of the social conventions that have irked her. She can value herself on her own merits, rather than being subject to the whims and opinions of others.
It's also an alien first-contact story with a twist that I love (even while conceding it to be improbable)
I've read this book before, and I'm sure I will read it again.
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