Books I've Read So Far This Year

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1. Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh
2. The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
3. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

4. Invader by C.J. Cherryh -- The second book of C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner series. While Cherryh's writing style continues to annoy me, the story she tells is simply amazing. I also enjoy how she makes the aliens so...well...alien. Yep...definitely planning on reading more books from this series. Also, doomsey, almeda, and I had a conversation about the Foreigner series last Friday. almeda, who has read most of the books, says that she purposely makes her writing somewhat difficult to parse at times in order to highlight the difficulties of translating between atevi (a language spoken by an alien race) and Mosphei' (a human language). Not all of the concepts can be easily translated from one language to the other because the psychological and biological wiring of the two species is so different. She also mentioned that her writing style tends to vary from series to series. Interesting...