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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2018-05-13 12:09 am

Misc things

I decided to buy myself a new Kindle Paperwhite to replace my ancient Kindle with the side buttons. It arrived in the mail today, so I've been setting it up and so far my thoughts are decidedly "hmmm." I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually, but I'm definitely not going to toss the old one anytime soon. I expect it'll be nice to have one that's backlit for reading in bed, though!

I had enough fun writing up my thoughts on The Pride of Chanur that I think I might just forget the "book club" idea for the time being, and simply make more posts on the Cherryh books I've read lately. Which one(s) are y'all most interested in hearing about?

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The ones I've just read or reread:

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Heavy Time/Hellburner
5 (41.7%)

Merchanter's Luck
4 (33.3%)

Downbelow Station
5 (41.7%)

The ones I'm in the process of reading or have waiting to read:

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Rider at the Gate/Cloud's Rider
3 (21.4%)

The rest of the Chanur series
3 (21.4%)

Rimrunners
3 (21.4%)

Finity's End
2 (14.3%)

Cyteen
7 (50.0%)

40,000 in Gehenna
2 (14.3%)

Faded Sun trilogy*
4 (28.6%)



*I haven't actually acquired these yet, but they're definitely going to be part of the "read all the Cherryh" project. Apparently the library has them; they've got a good Cherryh selection, come to find out.

In other news, I've settled on Mar Delaney as my F/F pen name and set up a website. Now I just need, you know ... to write some books. (Details.)

Apropos of that, [personal profile] rachelmanija has started a project called F/F Fridays, similar to Reading Wednesdays - post about an F/F book, story, or fanfic rec on Friday. Which I'm going to try to start doing, not every week, but as the mood takes me. (I'll probably post them here and also at Mar's website, to give it some content.) Also, [personal profile] rachelmanija has a poll where you can vote on the next book she'll review.
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[personal profile] theladysnarkydame 2018-05-14 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sure you have a list a mile long (she has written a LOT of books, wow), but I'm going to gently push you towards Fortress in the Eye of Time (first of the fortress books) and TriPoint, because those are two of my very favorites, for sure.

And I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on Cyteen and Downbelow Station, because I haven't actually read those yet! They're so celebrated that they've been a bit intimidating, I guess.