Partners in Necessity, Jet Smoke & Dragon Fire, Who Moved My Cheese?, On Death & Dying, Map of Power

[samvara]

Partners in Necessity by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. Trilogy. Space opera. Best thing since discovering Lois McMaster Bujold. Not quite in the same league but thoroughly enjoyable. Made me laugh, adored some of the characters and will definitely be chasing down the other books in this series.

Jet Smoke and Dragon Fire by Charles Ashton. Young adult post apocalypse fantasy. I gather it's book one of a trilogy and although I'm not inspired to track down the other books I did enjoy reading this one. Young, innocent village boy saves mysterious old man with an even more mysterious stick and gets three wishes.

Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson. I was given this and I've wanted to read it for years - ever since housemate T. called me a 'cheese mover'. Turns out it's a change management book using a rather large, unwieldy metaphor to talk about how people react to change. Don't buy it, wait for someone to give it to you too. Mmm cheese.

On Death & Dying by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. A good 40 years old now and still relevant. Looks at terminally ill patients and their experiences both of dying and of being cared for while dying. Nothing startlingly new but worth reading if you've noticed you might be mortal and are likely to die one day.

Map of Power by Tess Williams. I want to like this more than I did. Post apocalypse, Australian, World building. Three people from wildly different lives come together except not.

Comments

[japester.livejournal.com]

Cheese! I like my cheese.
However, some bugger moved it and now I can't find it.

My previous manager was all about cheese and management and was a big advocate of the book. He never let us read it though ...

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

You're welcome to read this copy if you wants to.

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

I've got most of the Lee & Miller Liad books. :) Including 2 ebooks containing chapbook style short stories based in the same universe.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Are they hard to get?

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

Well, it depends. Some I got from the uni bookstore when someone in charge of buying books was fannish apparently. Others I've tended to get from local SF speciality stores. I don't remember getting any from more mainstream stores. Supernova and then Fantastic planet are my usual sources. Baen's ebook website for the chapbook compilations.
Fantastic planet I know stocks some and has been happy to order some in for me.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

I got this one from Fantastic planet - found cupidsbow's copy on her bookshelves and read the first 50 pages - realised I needed my own.

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

I may have been involved in getting cupidsbow onto the series. (Only some of it is in my librarything so far though, I'm only up to H in authors so if it wasn't bought recently it's not in there)

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Hmm, so far I have 1/3 of your books on LibraryThing - keep uploading!

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

Working on it. It's finding the time. I shall obviously have to carry stacks through to living room to do while watching less than fully engaging TV.

Bemused to find someone so local being one of the other 22 people or so to have the I like this Poem book (which I picked up as a child in Scotland)

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Nodnod laptops made my process bearable.

[baby-elvis.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the Partners in Neciesity rec. I had a squiz around and, my ord, there's a lot of stuff set in this universe!

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Pleasure! I thoroughly recommend diving in ;-)

[willowgypsy.livejournal.com]

I have been involved in change management at both of my most recent jobs and so I read The Cheese Story about 4 years ago...

I told Kaili about it - I might have raved a bit, but I like the little mice anaology ... - so she bought me a Cheese Desk Calendar thingy.

Every day I rip off a new page to find some new insight into managing change...

And since my life is constantly about change this year... it was an even more fitting gift :)

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

All things are impermanent, this we know to be true ;-)