Amy Rae Durreson's Lord Heliodor's Retirement, a M/M fantasy mystery Lina Rather's, Sisters of the Vast Black, about a convent of space-faring nuns Lavie Tidhar's An Occupation of Angels, about an unnamed woman special operative, and the angelic occupational force she opposes. Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes a 1920s story about a middle aged woman who, being seen as little more than a burden or person to be delicately cared for by her family, runs off, takes up witchcraft and makes a deal with the devil. Mark Lawrence, Red Sister and Grey Sister - the first two books of a trilogy about a girl in what at first seems to be a fantasy world, but is in fact science-fiction about a world entering an ice age, settled by four different alien species in the far distant past.
Plus random parts of lots of various academic books on near Eastern history and cultures.
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Date: 2020-07-10 01:18 pm (UTC)Lina Rather's, Sisters of the Vast Black, about a convent of space-faring nuns
Lavie Tidhar's An Occupation of Angels, about an unnamed woman special operative, and the angelic occupational force she opposes.
Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes a 1920s story about a middle aged woman who, being seen as little more than a burden or person to be delicately cared for by her family, runs off, takes up witchcraft and makes a deal with the devil.
Mark Lawrence, Red Sister and Grey Sister - the first two books of a trilogy about a girl in what at first seems to be a fantasy world, but is in fact science-fiction about a world entering an ice age, settled by four different alien species in the far distant past.
Plus random parts of lots of various academic books on near Eastern history and cultures.
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Date: 2020-07-13 09:13 pm (UTC)