Not at all! 
A few days ago, I finished The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo. More informatively, it’s subtitled ‘The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom’. Dirac, who won the Nobel Prize for physics in the 1930’s, probably had Asperger Syndrome which makes his story even more fascinating. In any case, as a something of a connoisseur of ‘science biographies’, I’ll say unhesitatingly that it was outstanding.
I’m now into yet another ‘science biography’ - A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan (of A Bright Shining Lie fame). In ‘A Fiery Peace’, Sheehan places the life and accomplishments of Air Force General Schriever in parallel to the history of the Cold War, and nuclear weapons/ICBM’s in particular. A great read so far, and I know it’s gonna stay that way right to the last page. Sheehan is such a terrific writer.
never mind
A bunch of Congressional Budget Office reports and academic articles on immigration reform.
My life sucks.
Oh cool! I think a decent movie could be made from it, although movie people probably aren’t anxious to work with dogs.
Re The Little Stranger, about the ending – I think there was a poltergeist of sorts (the “little stranger”) which was responsible for the supernatural stuff, and Faraday murdered Caroline. What’s hard to suss out is whether Faraday consciously killed her, or whether he was in a fugue state, possessed, whatever. I never liked the guy, so I have no problem believing he knew what he was doing.
Just finished reading the WWII trilogy by Jeff Shaara and am now reading Gods and Generals by the same author.
The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1. ( So then, it isn’t quite complete now is it?)
I blame the movie quite happily for sucking me into fangirl spasms and am enjoying the reading ALOT more than when I read some or all or something of ACDs books when I was about 11 or 12. I must have raced through the main ones and promptly forgot them.
Humorous note, Watson and Holmes sure to ejaculate alot at each other. 
I just finished **Cross Dressing **by Bill Fitzhugh and enjoyed it. Fake priests, nuns with iffy pasts, great ad campaigns, vengeful Africans; this book has them all.
Good for you! I’m also a big Holmes fan, and would be glad to recommend some stories. Nicholas Meyer (The Seven Percent Solution) and June Thomson (The Secret Files of Sherlock Holmes) also write excellent pastiches. Some of Thomson’s short stories are even better than ACD’s originals, IMHO.
By chance, have you read The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession by David Grann? I moderately like Sherlock Holmes, but I find I am strangely more intrigued by the cult of Holmes. I just read Grann’s book about the Amazon, which I liked well enough, and thought this book might be interesting.
Finished Top Dog yesterday. I thought it ended abruptly, and sat around wishing for more, when it occurred to me Auntie Pam had mentioned a sequel… Interlibrary loan request placed for Dog Eat Dog.
Now I’m on to Superfreakonomics : global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance, by Steven D. Levitt. I liked the first book, no doubt I’ll like this too.
Now I’m reading The Lovely Bones. Please don’t let that get around.
I just finished Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road,” and just started "Super Freakonomics.”
Oh, almost forgot. I also read Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire Belloc, which took about five minutes.
And after that you might like Inhuman Beings, Carroll’s take on the body snatchers theme. Then you’ll have read everything he’s written. He’s doing a newspaper column but sadly, no more novels.
I had started and dumped and bitched on another board about The Left Hand of God (first in a fantasy series) by Paul Hoffman. I was nitpicking his grammar and was edumacated (in a friendly way) – I was the one with the grammar problems. So I picked it up again and it’s going okay.
No, I haven’t read it. Let me know what you think.
I got a couple books going right now. In actual book form is What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell. The guy writes some interesting stuff (observational essays), although I’m not far enough into it to really comment on the overall quality. This book, rather than having one focus point (his book Blink–about making split-second decisions, is one of the most interesting books I’ve ever read, and would recommend to everybody) is a collection of essays he’s written over the years on various subjects.
On my Palm Pre’s ebook reader, I have Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay, the first book in the series that the television show is based on. While it’s apparent that the first season directly quoted the book (including the narrations), it’s also insightful to see the pieces that didn’t make it into the show.
My brother got me The Intellectual Devotional for Christmas, which is a 365 page learn-something-every-day book. I’m keeping it in my kitchen and read it while my breakfast is heating up. Today’s page was on Lascaux Cave Paintings. I’ve seen images of them a million times, but never knew the history about them before (or knew they were in France!).
Sometime this year I will tackle Atlas Shrugged, but seeing how The Fountainhead took me about 5 months to get through, and that was most straightforward and half the length, I’m not in a hurry.
I just finished The Blade Itself, and I really loved it. Great writing, terrific characterization and amazing fight scenes. I’m off to order the rest of the trilogy.
I liked this, too, as pure comedy. The book was set during the Victorian period (the Queen has a cameo) but it read like a Regency novel to me, with a lot of Regency slang. But I haven’t read a lot of Victorian novels, so maybe the slang was correct for the period. Although since it’s fantasy/alternate history I guess the author can use whatever slang she wants.
Mark Twain: The Innocents Abroad
I’m a big Mark Twain fan (probably my favourite author along with Dickens), so no surprise, I’m enjoying it and chuckling away.
Ooooooooooh! More books on my wish list to read! Thanks!