24 February 2007

At sixes and sevens...

Struggling with reading at the moment due to a number of things - misplaced books, and time being the main ones. I'm juggling between a CJ Cherryh collection...

The cover of "At the Edge of Space" by CJ Cherry

...which I managed to lose for a fortnight by leaving it in a bag... Secrets of San Francisco...

The cover of "Secrets of San Francisco" for the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game.


...an RPG supplement for Call of Cthulhu.... and two others – The Collected Ghost Stories of MR James, and Eragon....

The cover of "Dragon" by Christopher Paolini, showing a dragon's head and neck in blues.

...which is a book I've had for far too long. The James is excellent, and I'm really looking forward to reading it, especially as I ordered it at Christmas. I'm more nervous about Eragon, because it's been so hyped, and I'm hoping that it isn't going to be as disappointing as Harry Potter was. The Cherryh novel is actually two of her earlier books, and both of them focus on people lost from their own culture. Reading the first one has reminded me just how well she does that style of novel, and the way her stories are always so character driven (unlike a lot of SF).

(No picture here for the MR James as there's none on Amazon).


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