The summer's about finished as is, even if I have more events set up than the usual. Nonetheless, I found a link to a book list, and thought I should follow with some of what I've been reading. I've mentioned probably all, or the majority, of these elsewhere on this journal.
But, anyway.
First, Revelation Space, and the sequel Redemption Ark, by Alastair Reynolds. I have the other parts of the series around the place for me, but the series is so intense and Gothic that too much at one time would be very mindblowing.
Second, and the reason that it feels as though I haven't been reading very much, anything that Greg Rucka's written, particularly Batman: No Man's Land, the Q&C comics, and the Atticus Kodiak series. I've read one volume of Checkmate and had to temporarily stop reading him, because I would simply get too familiar with him. He's very much like Jim Butcher, and finding a better compliment would be thoroughly difficult.
Third, Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Freelancer Manual, on the Internet. She posted it because she thought that a series of people would be freelancers, in the Rabid Economy, whether they would like to or not. I knew some parts of this, and before I entered college, I think I was a freelancer, but one with no idea at all what I would need to achieve.
She mentioned that freelancers, unlike many people in the world, need to take risks, I'm feeling like I have a big risk in front of me. I've diminished my amount of things to what I really need, and a vague feeling what the risk is. It's an eerie sensation.
I have, thanks to getting things from other places, many books that I'm partly into and not finished reading yet. So I won't mention them!
But, anyway.
First, Revelation Space, and the sequel Redemption Ark, by Alastair Reynolds. I have the other parts of the series around the place for me, but the series is so intense and Gothic that too much at one time would be very mindblowing.
Second, and the reason that it feels as though I haven't been reading very much, anything that Greg Rucka's written, particularly Batman: No Man's Land, the Q&C comics, and the Atticus Kodiak series. I've read one volume of Checkmate and had to temporarily stop reading him, because I would simply get too familiar with him. He's very much like Jim Butcher, and finding a better compliment would be thoroughly difficult.
Third, Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Freelancer Manual, on the Internet. She posted it because she thought that a series of people would be freelancers, in the Rabid Economy, whether they would like to or not. I knew some parts of this, and before I entered college, I think I was a freelancer, but one with no idea at all what I would need to achieve.
She mentioned that freelancers, unlike many people in the world, need to take risks, I'm feeling like I have a big risk in front of me. I've diminished my amount of things to what I really need, and a vague feeling what the risk is. It's an eerie sensation.
I have, thanks to getting things from other places, many books that I'm partly into and not finished reading yet. So I won't mention them!
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