Tracey's comments (member since Jan 04, 2008)

Tracey's comments from the Building a SciFi/Fantasy Library group.

Manybooks.net is a great site for older SF stories & novels - I haven't looked to see what fantasy offerings are on there.

I particularly enjoyed several H. Beam Piper novels/stories - there's a good selection of his works on the site . Murray Leinster has a nice collection as well; short stories from quite a few Golden Age authors are our there, too.

I don't re-read as much as I used to - simply because there are too many (potentially) good books out there that I haven't read yet.

When I do re-read a book, it's usually because I want to re-visit that world (fiction) or recall the information & how it's presented (non-fiction).

Last year, I re-read 7 books (out of 82 total) and all but one were fiction.

David Gerrold - Jumping off the Planet - felt very like a Heinlein juvie to me; kids with divorced parents may find this speaks to them.

John Varley's Red Thunder was also a ripping good yarn, tho I can't remember for sure how G-PG it was.

Most of my reading is in my big chair in the family room - feet up on the ottoman, something to drink &/or snack on within reach.

My goal is to finish one book a week; sometimes I meet it, othertimes not, depending on what else is going on in my life (alas, books are not my #1 priority!) and the book itself - nonfiction takes longer than fiction, and re-reads usually pass more quickly than something new.