All rereads, so I'm not going to do much in the way of a review for these; just want to get them recorded before I forget that I read them.
18. The Book of Dragons, by E. Nesbit
A collection of 19th-century kids' fantasy stories - one of my favorites growing up, and still great fun.
19-21. Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, and Kushiel's Avatar by Jacqueline Carey
This trilogy rates very high on my all-time-favorites list - erotic, romantic, political intrigue that I can actually follow (unlike, say, in Melanie Rawn's Sunrunner series), all based on a wonderfully Thelemic philosophy. Can't really say enough good stuff about 'em.
22. Orphans of the Sky by Robert Heinlein
When I was cataloguing my fiction on LibraryThing, I found I couldn't quite remember which one this one was, which obviously called for a reread. It's one of this juvenile SF books, a quick and simple read, but placed in a fascinating future universe where a colonization ship has been lost for generations, and for the inhabitants of the ship, there is no universe beyond it. Creates a very interesting culture. The sexism in the society makes me shudder, but it makes sense in context.
Currently rereading American Gods, as, while I usually love Gaiman's writing, for some reason whenever I read this one it goes in one eye and out the other. Still trying to figure out why that is.
18. The Book of Dragons, by E. Nesbit
A collection of 19th-century kids' fantasy stories - one of my favorites growing up, and still great fun.
19-21. Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, and Kushiel's Avatar by Jacqueline Carey
This trilogy rates very high on my all-time-favorites list - erotic, romantic, political intrigue that I can actually follow (unlike, say, in Melanie Rawn's Sunrunner series), all based on a wonderfully Thelemic philosophy. Can't really say enough good stuff about 'em.
22. Orphans of the Sky by Robert Heinlein
When I was cataloguing my fiction on LibraryThing, I found I couldn't quite remember which one this one was, which obviously called for a reread. It's one of this juvenile SF books, a quick and simple read, but placed in a fascinating future universe where a colonization ship has been lost for generations, and for the inhabitants of the ship, there is no universe beyond it. Creates a very interesting culture. The sexism in the society makes me shudder, but it makes sense in context.
Currently rereading American Gods, as, while I usually love Gaiman's writing, for some reason whenever I read this one it goes in one eye and out the other. Still trying to figure out why that is.
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I just finished Heinlein's Glory Road, am about half-way through Farnham's Freehold, and have Citizen of the Galaxy on deck. Every decade or so I read through a handful of Heinlein's juveniles, just to remind me of the impact he had on me and, IMO, the growth of a Thelemic worldview.
One of the central Thelemic godforms is Nuit, the star goddess - who says, among other things, "Take your fill of love as ye will, when, where, and with whom ye will" - and Mount Nuit is where the Court of Night-Blooming Flowers is.
Little things, I suppose, that could be argued away - but those plus the overarching feel of the books chronicling Phedre's journey to fully embracing who and what she is - make the books feel incredibly Thelemic to me.
And Kushiel's Scion - yes! Next month! *manic happy dance*
Next month? I must get the books out and re-read them!
Thanks!