stoutfellow | Reading Update

I finished Sharra's Exile, and found it to be better than I remembered. Among other things, I remembered the depiction of Dyan Ardais as being rather inconsistent (and to the worse) with his depiction in The Heritage of Hastur, but I seem to have been wrong about this. I think that I must have read The Sword of Aldones (or perhaps The World Wreckers? What's that one about?), which was an early version of the same events, and conflated the two (or outright substituted TSoA for SE). Anyway, it's a pretty good book - not as good as THoH, but good. (I think I'd like Lew a bit better if he weren't such a drama queen. Hmm... it occurs to me that it's unclear how far after the fact his first-person narration occurs. It can't be too far, because I don't think the Lew of the end of SE would have spoken quite as bleakly as the narrator earlier in the book, to say nothing of THoH.)

Most of the rest of my Amazon order arrived yesterday: the two CDs I mentioned earlier, plus Spencer-Fleming's Out of the Deep I Cry (which I have begun reading), Robert Aronowitz' Making Sense of Illness: Science, Society, and Disease, and Christopher Booker's The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories. There's one more book coming, Heyer's April Lady.