Bookworming
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zibblsnrt has got me started on Harry Turtledove's books again. In specific, his althist series in which the Confederates won the Civil War, and WWI happens. Damn him. Althistory is crack to history majors, and he knew this, and he still encouraged me to read them...even though I've got research and obligations...
Anyway, yes, Turtledove is up there among my favourite authors. So that's my question to the LJ world tonight. Who's your favourite authors and what's your favourite books?
And hmmm...need a bookworm icon, I do...
zibblsnrt has got me started on Harry Turtledove's books again. In specific, his althist series in which the Confederates won the Civil War, and WWI happens. Damn him. Althistory is crack to history majors, and he knew this, and he still encouraged me to read them...even though I've got research and obligations...Anyway, yes, Turtledove is up there among my favourite authors. So that's my question to the LJ world tonight. Who's your favourite authors and what's your favourite books?
And hmmm...need a bookworm icon, I do...
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Favorite books and authors
Date: 2004-12-04 03:59 pm (UTC)Fiction - The Deed of Paksennarion by Elizabeth Moon - this is a trilogy, set in a swords and sorcery world. A girl runs away from home to join in a mercenary troupe (Moon was in the marines, so she knows what basic training is like) but soon finds out that the gods have other plans for her.
Non-Fiction - Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams - Adams and zoologist Mark Carwardine travelled all over the world, just to find animals that are becoming extinct. Not that they were looking for new animals, merely going places to point out that this animal in this place is becoming extinct. The book describes their journeys, and other than being hilariously funny as Adams can be, shows us what we are really doing to the other inhabitants of this big blue marble in the sky.