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I've come around to the appeal of cremation. Less muss & fuss. I tend to remember things visually, so shelves are preferable. Trying to find all my Cherryh books the other day was a nightmare, because 80% are together but that last 20%...I KNOW I have Rimrunners somewhere!

I technically have a kindle somewhere; used it for a few weeks when I went to Thailand (family stuff) because it just wasn't practical to bring enough books for me for three weeks. It was...fine. Don't get me wrong, I love physical books, but my apartment has a finite amount of wall space...

Love it when ENWorld decides I don't need thread updates anymore. Anyway, I read all the Chanur books. I hadn't read them all in order one after another before, so that was actually really good. Pride is a good intro but the details get better later on and the books go from strong (IMO) to...

I've read the Ancillary books and The Raven Tower, but don't recall aliens - which likely has more to do with my memory than anything else. CJ is just so EXTREMELY psychological in her writing - I honestly can handle the SF, but some of her fantasy was just beyond. I read Fortress in the Eye of...

One of the hallmarks of her sf is that alien species have alien impulses, emotions, or drives that never quite map onto human ones. We see the Chanur novels through the eyes of the hani, so they map very closely, but the kif (explored in later books) have no comprehension of affection, love, or...

Since I've been tripping over CJ Cherryh's works recently, I decided I'd go and reread some of it, so I grabbed the Chanur series when I was at the apartment and read Pride of Chanur. Takeaways: Still like it a lot. Best representation of alien species in fiction out there, imo. Development of...

Well that went quick.... Station Eternity was NOT a particularly quick book or a quick read. However, I read fast, and more importantly, I stayed awake until 5am reading that danged book. (and then got up at 9am and drove 7 hours to upstate NY today with my daughter. I wouldn't have done it...

Started on Station Eternity, by Mur Lafferty. The premise being "what if, everywhere you went, people died and you solved their murder...whether you meant to or not? And it kept happening? And OBVIOUSLY people were suspicious/disbelieving because...that's either too ridiculous to be real or too...

I much prefer Chandler to Hammett. I've said it before (and recently), that his plots are haphazard at best, but read him for the words themselves.

I think Robert Silverberg is often overlooked* nowadays, but he's a master. *I'm not saying he's no longer in print, or no one has ever heard his name, or that he's wholly forgotten, and most of us have certainly heard of him.

slightly over 5 times more than my graduating HS class (we had a neat 50)

I'm definitely intrigued.

Yeah, to be clear (and from what I recall, since it's been a while since I read the books) most of them had a core mystery (haunted temple); a secondary mystery (someone died); major (wealthy merchant) and minor (thieves) antagonists; and with some investigation, a connection between them all...

Second this. I also thought the Dee books were almost all extremely suitable to be translated into D&D adventures.

Those too. Not every story has giant enigmatic architecture, but enough do.

If you like fantasy, you might try Martha Wells's newest book. Name escapes me at the moment. She loves her mysterious megastructures.

Yeah, they're just...not that interesting. Not bad, but not a lot of emotional involvement.

I couldn't sleep last night, and read much of Cold Welcome, by Elizabeth Moon (of Paksenarrion fame). Finished it today (I wrote off today and just stayed home). I wasn't sure if I'd read it before, but I definitely have. It...was fine, I guess. I finished it (again). Very much the whole "genius...

Lamb is also amazingly fantastic, both for its humor and its...perspective? On Christianity? If a church picked up that as its gospel, I'd join.

Bridge of Birds is one of my three "list-test" books. If a Fantasy "Best of" list doesn't include at least one of the three, it's not a good list. (Yes, this is very subjective; yes I'm a 50+ white guy who grew up reading fantasy in the 80s; no this isn't a perfect system; no obviously it...