I’m currently reading If at First: A Season With the Mets by Keith Hernandez and Mike Bryan and Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. I recently finished* The Power of Now* by Eckhardt Tolle.
Currently reading Arcadia by Iain Pears. Very strange genre mixture, I’m enjoying it so far.
I’m reading another Longmire book, Junkyard Dogs, and I think it’s my favorite of the series. Craig Johnson’s comic bits are worth the price of admission.
N’yuh huh!
On the home stretch of Robert Harris’s Fatherland, a realistic and chilling alt-history thriller about a murder investigation in 1964 Nazi Germany. Also resuming Dan Balz’s Collision 2012, about Romney v. Obama. Good behind-the-scenes political stuff.
I was pleased to find that the books have more humor than the TV show.
That was probably my favourite novel last year! (It came out earlier in the UK than the US)
Currently reading Monday Begins on Saturday by the Strugatsky Brothers, which I’be not read for decades!
Finished Burroughs, on to he Brian Aldiss anthology Galactic Empires, which I’d never read.
I’ve gone through the first few stories and am hugely disappointed – no actual Galactic Empires in them.
On audio, I’m re-reading Stranger in a Strange Land. This book is still interesting for its take on philosophy and religion, but its technology gets less likely every year. Its view of Mars was outdated when it was written (although the general public didn’t know that), but much of the rest of the book now seems downright quaint.
Finished Dear Sugar. At the end of this book, I don’t know if her advice was actually helpful to anyone, but it was still moving and I enjoyed the autobiographical parts. I’m going to try something else by Strayed in future.
This morning, I read up to page 55 of a novel, Black Rabbit Hall. It’s not hooked me yet, so we shall part amicably.
Potato chip reading
i started Conspiracy in Death by J D Robb. I continue to enjoy her cute look at policing in the near future, not so much for the plots because it’s easy to figure that out, but just for the whole wish fullfilment and Mary Sueness of it all.
My favourite Burroughs! First read it fifty years ago; have reread it several times since.
It’s March 1 over here. New thread coming?
Let me finish dinner
Last finished: Ink and Bone, YA AH by Rachel Caine. Looking forward eagerly to the sequel, which comes out in July.
Now reading: Old Man’s War, military SF by John Scalzi. I’m also rereading Hot Rod, YA fiction (teens and cars) by Henry Gregor Felsen, which I first read around 50 years ago.
Next up: Death Lights a Candle, the second Asey Mayo mystery by Phoebe Atwood Taylor.
Well geez, you got two hands, doncha?
NEW THREAD!
French toast… how much syrup did you want all over the thread?