New week underway

[annathepiper]

I've seen a lot of mentions on my Friends list this weekend of the passing of Octavia Butler. To those of you who were fans of her work, to those of you who respected and admired her as a fellow writer, my condolences to you. I have never read her work, but it's sounding like I really ought to. Would anyone have any recommendations on where to start?

Aside from the sad note on that front, the weekend's been pretty good. Friday: most excellent episode of Battlestar Galactica. Saturday: the waking up before 7am and being unable to get back to sleep part was annoying, but I used that time to finish off J.D. Robb's Origin in Death, which was a lot of fun. Later solarbird and I ran errands down to Lake Forest Park. Sunday: lots and lots and lots and lots of writing. Over 2,200 words. I'm very pleased with myself. ^_^

And to those of you who are local and interested in possibly attending resurrected Murkworks jams, don't forget to check out my polls on that topic here (especially this one, as it's about scheduling the first jam) and here (this one's about general jam-related questions).

Friday evening miles: 1.15
Saturday miles: 2.0
Monday morning miles: 2.1
Miles out of Hobbiton: 734.7
Miles out of Rivendell: 276.7
Miles to Lothlórien: 187.3

Comments

[rosepurr.livejournal.com]

I recommend starting with her Parable series. The first one is Parable of the Sower.

[celandineb.livejournal.com]

Wild Seed is my favorite of her books, and I think it stands alone pretty well (although it does have connections to others).

[backrubbear.livejournal.com]

The only books I've read by her was what is now Lillith's Children (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446676101/sr=8-5/qid=1141066007/ref=pd_bbs_5/102-4675720-4172955?%5Fencoding=UTF8). The books do an amazing job at walking you through not only being amongst aliens, but being and becoming alien.

I should read some of her other stuff.

[seattlesparks.livejournal.com]

Lilith's Children and Wild Seed would be where I'd start, though I'd definitely read the Parable as well.

[janne.livejournal.com]

I've only read Wild Seed, which is definitely worth reading.

[kirbyk.livejournal.com]

I recently read Kindred, which was excellent. It's mostly a Slavery story, with modern folk somehow thrust back through time, but it's the best Slavery story I've read.

I really will cherish the signed and personalized copy I got last year.

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

Kindred is the book of hers that made me immediately begin cataloguing which other books made that kind of impression on me. It's VERY heavy, but absolutely superb.

[annathepiper]

Cool, thanks! I'm seeing conflicting recommendations all over this thread, so I may just have to check out everything I can find of hers on a local bookstore shelf and see which one says "buy me!" first.

[annathepiper]

Thanks! There seem to be a few votes for a few different books all over the thread, so I guess I'll have to check out whatever I can find available in local stores and see which one says "buy me!" first. :)

[annathepiper]

Cool, thanks for chiming in. :)

[annathepiper]

It looks like I have a few recommendations coming in on several of her titles here; I think I'll just have to see what I can find in the bookstores I frequent, and see what says "buy me!" first. Thanks for chiming in!

[annathepiper]

Cool, thanks. :)

[annathepiper]

Wow, yeah, if I were you that book would be extra special meaningful to me now too. kathrynt agrees with you on Kindred, I see. I'll have to see what I can find of hers on local bookstore shelves, and see what makes me want to buy it first!

[annathepiper]

Cool! Thanks. :)

[drglam]

There's a good overview of her books here http://community.livejournal.com/whileaway/80409.html

The first of her books that I read was Survivor. It's not a bad place to start.

[rosepurr.livejournal.com]

I had a hard time with Kindred because I don't like time travel stories at all.

[annathepiper]

Noted! I'll see which ones I can find. :)

[annathepiper]

Cool, thank you!