tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:283054Once a StrangerEtrangereEtrangere2012-03-11T17:50:37Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:283054:709376Books I've recently read2012-03-11T17:49:23Z2012-03-11T17:50:37Zpublic15Still going fine with he reading :)<br /><br /><u>Brothers of Earth</u> by CJ Cherryh<br />An early book in her career in which a lone survivor of a battle is shipwrecked on a planet with aliens and one other lone surviver of the battle (from the other side of the war) who sets herself as the boss in the local nation, and basically he has to adapt himself to the aliens' culture, and they have their own issues, and their own forthcoming war.<span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://salinea.dreamwidth.org/709376.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><u>Conspiracy of Kings</u> by Megan Whalen Turner<br />Fourth volume in the <a href="http://etrangere.livejournal.com/171446.html">Thief series</a>, <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___2" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://salinea.dreamwidth.org/709376.html#cutid2">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___2" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><u>Lord of the White Hell 1&2</u>, by Ginn Hale<br />Very good M/M fantasy series in which a young man from a culture that is a tolerated minority is accepted as in a big school because he's very, very good at science stuff, and finds himself rooming with the infamous noble whose family pactised with demons. <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___3" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://salinea.dreamwidth.org/709376.html#cutid3">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___3" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><u>Hunter of Worlds</u> by CJ Cherryh<br />Another early Cherryh. This one has a member of a rather pacific alien species captured and enslaved by a powerful and very ruthless species, forced into a mind bond with another member of his own species who was slave to them since forever, and a human being. <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___4" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://salinea.dreamwidth.org/709376.html#cutid4">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___4" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><u>The Honourable Schoolboy</u> by John Le Carré<br />Sequel to <a href="http://etrangere.livejournal.com/419952.html#cutid6">Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy</a>. <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___5" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://salinea.dreamwidth.org/709376.html#cutid5">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___5" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><u>Ash</u> by Malinda Lo<br />A rewriting of Cinderella with added Fair Folks and added lesbian romance. <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___6" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://salinea.dreamwidth.org/709376.html#cutid6">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___6" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><u>Damnation Alley</u> by Roger Zelazny<br />A short (post)-apocalyptic novel in which an hardened criminal is forced to drive a armored vehicle across the extremely destroyed America from LA to Boston to deliver the serum that will save Boston from a nasty plague. <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___7" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://salinea.dreamwidth.org/709376.html#cutid7">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___7" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><u>Doctrine of the Labyrinth (Mélusine, Virtu, Mirador,& Corambis)</u> by Sarah Monette<br />A fantasy hurt/comfort bromance series about a former prostitute gay wizard and a former assassin cat burglar who end up helping one another from all trauma they have undergone (and sometimes causing more). Yeah, I think that's the best summary I can do, although it might sell the story short. <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___8" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://salinea.dreamwidth.org/709376.html#cutid8">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___8" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=salinea&ditemid=709376" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments