devohoneybee | sun and rest and pining

I'm finding out, day by day, how much rest I can handle... and it seems like a LOT. Still unwinding, still waiting for my things to come, still waiting for the application I need for the thing I need before I can do the thing with the score tranfer for my Cal psych license application. Went for a walk today -- asthma still kicking my butt, but I just huffed away to the park, sat for a while on a rock, and huffed back. Also, in the backyard, testdrove our new Martha Stewart lawn lounge chair. It was very comfy, in a tasteful light taupe mesh.

Finished the 3 (so far) books of the Weather Warden series by Rachel Caine (recced by Charlaine Harris on her message board). Nice reads, if you like the magical romance/adventure genre, which I seem to do. She does have a rather unfortunate tendency to end the books on, not precisely cliffhangers, but with plenty left to resolve. Oh well -- it will join my pining list (more Charlaine Harris, the next Tanya Huff, etc.

Speaking of which -- does anyone else have pine lists -- books in a series they wait for?

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My "pine lists" of late have been for Lois McMaster Bujold's novels. Her newest Chalion-series book The Hallowed Hunt is done (http://www.dendarii.com/news/04Sep.html) and in the publisher's pipeline for May. Dangerous stuff indeed if you like the intersection of magic and romance.

The Chalion series is set in a vaguely medeival world where magic is recognized, though mostly by the God-touched "saints", not the everyday people. Of course, becoming God-touched can leave you quite bewildered, and they tend to be able to see things that others cannot. The other fun complication is her pantheon -- there's the Father, the Mother, the Son, and the Daughter. Those who live in Chalion add the Bastard to that list, and it's an ongoing source of conflict between the Quintarians in Chalion and their Quatarian neighbors who believe that believing in the Bastard is the worst sort of heresy.

Bujold's other major series is the Vorkosigan series that intersects romance with space opera. That's been the guiding metaphor for my relationship with

ambar -- we often wind up referring to incidents and/or quotes in the books.

I also pine for new issues of the Collected Works of Theodore Sturgeon (http://www.physics.emory.edu/~weeks/sturgeon/#news). Volume 10 is sadly overdue.

It's funny that I wrote that about Sturgeon. Out of curiosity, I checked Amazon for any new releases in the series, and it claims one is ready for pre-ordering. (

This is courtesy of Delicious LIbrary (http://www.delicious-monster.com/), which is an application that Windows-users can only envy. *grin* It keeps a list of my books, can make suggestions for similar items via a cross-referencing link to Amazon. Clicking one of my Sturgeon books and then showing similar items caused it to show me the new book's info.

Definitely anything by Lois Bujold. Same for Emma Bull, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett. Who else these days? Um, Charlaine Harris you know, I can only wish Barry Hughart would write another book, um.... that's about it? David Weber's War God's Own books are excellent, although I dislike his Honor Harrington stuff. I already hooked you on McKinley and McKillip. For that matter, I'm very fond of Steven Brust's Taltos and Phoenix Guard books.

Oh! Get your hands on anything by Martha Wells. She's superb.

Enough to get you in more trouble in bookstores?

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