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just feeling nostalgic i'm currently reading the first 3 books of the Dragon Riders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey its a great mix of fantasy and science fiction rolled into one.
 
Coincidentally, I just finished reading Crystal Singer.

Going to start a non-fic about Joan of Arc... can't say I'll stick to it at this point, but we will see.
 
Just finished the book Paris by Edward Rutherford. While I did enjoy it, I found it a rather amusing take on Parisians ... almost an American Cliché of what Parisians are believed to be like rather than insight into their particular joie de vivre.
 
rengisan said:
I am a book lover. Now I am into "Frankenstein"by Mary Shelley. A friend of mine suggested me to read this book.
To begin with, it is worth noting that this is the first sci-fi fiction novel in the history of literature. Second – it was written by the author at the age of 18. The third author is a woman.I am envy to that writer. I am bad at writing paper works and I am user of essay writing service
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Well as an academic I obviously strongly disapprove of essay writing services (though as a physicist we don't ask our students to write many essays!).

As for the book, I have a particular affection for another reason: the middle part of the book being set in Geneva, which is an area I know quite well, including having lived in the old town, which at the time the book was written would have been the main part of the city. Always fun to compare the descriptions with the place I know.

I had something similar reading Hilary Mantell's novel of the French revolution, A Place of Greater Safety: I knew the region of Paris some of the main characters inhabited well enough that I could picture many of the locations from life, and realised that I'd stayed in an apartment on the street where one character lived (the description of steep, narrow staircases there matched my experience too).
 
The "Freehold Universe series" by Michael Z Williamson. I'm reading by order of release and six books in the timeline seems consistent...
Depends on what happens to Chelsea in book 6.
 
Just finished "reading" Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton. It's a post-apocalyptic (zombie) novel told from the perspective of a crow (Shit Turd or S. T.) raised from the egg by a redneck electrician in Seattle. This is a really funny homage to the natural world of the Pacific Northwest and a scenic tour of Seattle, as S. T. first tries to save his Mofo (what he calls humans) Big Jim and then, after Big Jim tries to eat him, rescue himself and his companion-- the dog Dennis. S. T. must learn what it is to be a Crow, and rescue all the other domestic animals trapped inside houses while avoiding being eaten by sick mofos and wild animals.

Caveats: lots of swear words
 
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