Cool!

[nuranar]

At our home weather station, the temperature fell from 73 to 57 in one hour.  Nice.  Three hours later and it's fallen another 10 degrees.

I AM working on Bible study. Slowly.  Y'know what's the Distraction of the Day?  The Gate of Ivrel.  Yep, I just happened to pick up the Morgaine books again today.  I've read it four times already and it still distracts me.  At least there's no hope that I'll finish it in time to get back to work. :p

I am branching out a little more in Cherryh's work, though.  I read Fortress in the Eye of Time some months ago, based on comments at cj_cherryh that its fantasy setting is closer to the Morgaine books than her other SF novels.  Unfortunately I found it unexpectedly heavy on the magic (very un-Morgaine-like) and, more importantly, unpardonably dull.  So I have no inclination to try the rest of the series.  Other reviews indicate that it's pretty much more of the same.

I did read the Faded Sun trilogy while on my trip to Michigan two weeks ago.  It's a trilogy like The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy, in that it's one story broken into three parts.  It kept me pretty riveted.  To me it's not as good as the Morgaine books (less action, although there's a good amount), but still quite good.

And now I have Foreigner, which is the first of what seems to be her best-known (or newest?) series.  It finally arrived via BookMooch today.  At least I've resisted temptation enough to not open that one up already.  *g*

Comments

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

At least they're new to you! It's just more pathetic that there are no surprises in what I'm reading and yet I keep going.

I just started reading another book on the Gutenberg Project, this one in 1774 in Virginia/Kentucky. Shawnees mainly, though; no Iroquois.

By the way, for Bible study I'm doing a book background thing, and I've chosen Egypt in the time of Moses. :D If I had leisure I'd pick your brain, but I've only got about 1.5 hours to finish!

[ulysses-blue.livejournal.com]

Wow!
This is so bizarre, I just bought those very same CJ Cherryh books, not twenty minutes ago, and I was about to make a post asking other people their opinions of them! Craay-zeee....
(I haven't read this author before.)

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Craziness! Which ones? I mentioned, oh, four different sets of her books. :D

[ulysses-blue.livejournal.com]

I bought "Fortress in the Eye of Time", plus the three parts of the Morgaine saga gathered into one volume.

I also bought "Good Omens", which was written jointly by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, since I'm currently on a Gaiman kick.

(gotta love your local used-bookstore...)

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Neat! I'd love to get your opinion on Fortress. And I *really* like the Morgaine books. Follow the "morgaine" tag for more that I've written. I think I actually managed a real review on that one.

[ulysses-blue.livejournal.com]

Are there any spoilers in what you've written?

I will certainly give you my opinion of "Fortress", though :)

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Nope. I hate things being spoiled for me, and I sure wouldn't do that to the Morgaine books.