What I Read for (Half of) March
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affrecaGTO (Great Teach Onizuka) vol 1-2 by Tohru Fujisawa - I am consuming Japanese teacher stories as I loved Gokusen. Strawberry Eggs was scary in its gender assumptions, GTO is a bit better. I still prefer Gokusen. The hornball male teacher difficult for me to be sympathetic to, compared to the female teacher falling for her male student (though I'm uncomfortable with the fact I'm OK with it).
Goblin Quest, Goblin Hero and Goblin War by Jim Hines - In the days after Gary Gygax death, there were a great many articles about how D&D changed lives. And several about how it created lots of fantasy drivel. Which it did. The Goblin series isn't drivel, but is a response to D&D from the point of view of the poor monsters (as is the great unrelated online comic Goblins).
It isn't a deep series, but it is a fun one.
The Outback Stars by Sandra McDonald - Finally, the book I wanted. Someone captured how it feels to be a female officer in the USN, and set it in the future. Difficult book for me to read, but worth it.
Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Wings to the Kingdom and Not Flesh Nor Feathers by Cherie Priest - Another urban fantasy series with a strong female character. However, for no good reason, it is shelved in the fiction section, which is why it took me a while to actually get to them. They have a very strong sense of place.
A Curse as Dark as Gold by Elizabeth Bunce - A YA retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin story.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
auroraceleste loaned it to me, as the author is somewhat local. I liked it. The main character is a believably strong woman. She's not stupid, just refuses outside help. It also fixes some of the troublesome bits of the original story.
Darkwar Trilogy (Doomstalker, Warlock, Ceremony) by Glen Cook - I'd read the first book years ago in my childhood library, and liked it. Years later I found a copy cheap, and bought it. But I'd never found the rest of the series. In comes Amazon Marketplace, and finally completeness. I still like the first book best, as I dislike how cold the main character gets in the later books. One interesting conceit is that the characters are all alien/nonhuman. You learn the society as the main character does.
Goblin Quest, Goblin Hero and Goblin War by Jim Hines - In the days after Gary Gygax death, there were a great many articles about how D&D changed lives. And several about how it created lots of fantasy drivel. Which it did. The Goblin series isn't drivel, but is a response to D&D from the point of view of the poor monsters (as is the great unrelated online comic Goblins).
It isn't a deep series, but it is a fun one.
The Outback Stars by Sandra McDonald - Finally, the book I wanted. Someone captured how it feels to be a female officer in the USN, and set it in the future. Difficult book for me to read, but worth it.
Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Wings to the Kingdom and Not Flesh Nor Feathers by Cherie Priest - Another urban fantasy series with a strong female character. However, for no good reason, it is shelved in the fiction section, which is why it took me a while to actually get to them. They have a very strong sense of place.
A Curse as Dark as Gold by Elizabeth Bunce - A YA retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin story.
auroraceleste loaned it to me, as the author is somewhat local. I liked it. The main character is a believably strong woman. She's not stupid, just refuses outside help. It also fixes some of the troublesome bits of the original story. Darkwar Trilogy (Doomstalker, Warlock, Ceremony) by Glen Cook - I'd read the first book years ago in my childhood library, and liked it. Years later I found a copy cheap, and bought it. But I'd never found the rest of the series. In comes Amazon Marketplace, and finally completeness. I still like the first book best, as I dislike how cold the main character gets in the later books. One interesting conceit is that the characters are all alien/nonhuman. You learn the society as the main character does.
