Stand down

This is my own stand down, because - yes, I'm sick again. This time, a particularly hellish stomach flu, which started around 5 am Friday morning. I'm still queasy. So I was going though a really awful morning on Friday, what with the flu and all, and then I was convinced I would get a package in the mail that day. And I did - Welcome to Vietnam and Stand Down by Zack Emerson. I hadn't had the opportunity to read Stand Down for about seven years - for a while, it was over $100 on abebooks.com, and no nearby libraries own it. So I've been re-reading the Echo Company series and The Road Home this weekend, and wondering whether this flu was the karmic price one has to pay to own books one has wanted for so long.

a mighty handy oracle

I'm sick (it's depressing, in retrospect, to think of how many posts in the last year have said this). Mostly getting over it, though, which is good. I finished Victoria Hanley's The Light of the Oracle tonight, in my quest to find new female fantasy authors. It was a mishmash of the usual: teens save the day, traces of Anne McCaffrey, and an overworld suspiciously like Marion Zimmer Bradley's. The SO tells me that a bunch of authors have a similar idea, way back to Lovecraft, but I think it's more like MZB.
Then I read the first book in Kate Brian's new series, Private. It was cracktastic: a mix between a boarding school story, Gossip Girl, and Harrison's Clique series. Much better than M. Apostolina's Meri Strikes Back, which I read this week, but which didn't live up to Hazing Meri Sugarman. The sequel to Private comes out next month, yippee!
Forgive my fangirl chatter - I'm too sick, and tired, to come up with anything insightful tonight.