ultranos: kino standing, staring ahead (the world in my hand)
I stumbled across a book series I loved as a youngish teen while surfing Amazon (don't ask), and in a moment of weakness brought about by nostalgia, I've managed to track down and order copies of William Nicholson's Wind on Fire Trilogy.

This is one of those series I mourn the lack of fandom for. Kestrel eats awesome for breakfast. (And I possibly nearly developed a crush on my mental image of Bowman by Book 2, Slaves of the Mastery) Am I the only one who remembers reading these books? Because seriously, they are/were awesome.

Speaking of books, I might give up on The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie for the moment. I'm just not in the correct mood for it. I think I'm going to start Across the Nightingale Floor (Book 1 of Tales of the Ootori) by Lian Hearn next. Probably.

As I'm at it, anyone got any particularly interesting book recs? I hear I have a membership to a certain library on campus...
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Date/Time: 2010-06-18 14:05 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] rodlox.livejournal.com
i confess to having been tempted by Across the nightingale floor.

my recs - Brother Termite by Patricia Anthony, anything by the late Gerald Durrell or David Quammen, Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
Guy Gavriel Kay, What if the Earth had two Moons by Dr. Neil Commins, and the Foreigner series by CJ Cherryh.

have nice days and be well.
Date/Time: 2010-06-18 16:05 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] ultranos-fic.livejournal.com
Ooh, cool. I'll check those out. Thanks!

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