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.

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[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.