So what are you reading now? Part 2

[Rosalind]

Just finished reading This Book Does Not Exist: Adventures in the Paradoxical by Gary Hayden and Michael Picard. It was a fun book, in that it requires you to think about the problems presented and figure things out. I think I'll need to read some parts of it again to really understand it.

The idea that the mirror universe is what ours would be if it weren’t for the continuous meddling of the Preservers.

It's been a long time since I read these books, but my impression from the books was the timelines split due to the coin toss made by Cochrane. Besides, I don't think the idea that our main universe would've be the mirror universe if not for some alien meddling is a pleasant thought.

 

[kimc]

I'm currently reading "Cheri/The Return of Cheri" by Colette. I've just finished "In Defense of Food" which has totally changed my way of thinking about eating.

* munches on raw broccoli *

 

[indianatrekker26]

i've been watching so much TNG lately, that i've gone back to the older TNG novels. I'm currently reading "Doomsday World"

 

[S. Gomez]

Alastair Reynolds' short story collection Galactic North, from his Revelation Space universe.

EDIT: Okay, maybe I'm not reading it anymore...I'm having a lot of trouble picking a book.

 

[Sci]

Finished The Never-Ending Sacrifice, which was PURE AWESOME, and am now going back to The Shock Doctrine.

 

[Thrawn]

Alastair Reynolds' short story collection Galactic North, from his Revelation Space universe.

EDIT: Okay, maybe I'm not reading it anymore...I'm having a lot of trouble picking a book.

That's a really good one though.

 

[S. Gomez]

Alastair Reynolds' short story collection Galactic North, from his Revelation Space universe.

EDIT: Okay, maybe I'm not reading it anymore...I'm having a lot of trouble picking a book.

That's a really good one though.

Of that I have little doubt. It was more a question of what I'm in the mood for, which is a quandary I find myself entangled in often; but I'll probably get to it before I have to renew it (library book).

 

[C. Cole-Chakotay]

I read Notes From the Rainbow Bridge last night. I'm reading Triss in the Redwall series.

 

[John Clark]

Just finishing Ghosts of Onyx while waiting for a couple more books to arrive

 

[Daddy Todd]

After reading the brilliant Love and Rockets: New Stories no.2 yesterday, I'm dividing my time between my third re-read of Tim Power's frantic & feverish pirate novel On Stranger Tides (just announced as the basis of the upcoming 4th Pirates of the Caribbean film) and skipping around in Fawn Brodie's definitive biography of Joseph Smith No Man Knows My History.

As a former Mormon, it's a fascinating read.

 

[Stevil2001]

My reading's kicked into high-gear this month-- we can thank the resumption of classes for that, though I've also been keeping up with some pleasure reading. This month's pleasure reads have centered around His Dark Materials, letting me finish off my re-read of the trilogy and a first read of some supplemental books:
- His Dark Materials, Books Three: The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman
- Lyra's Oxford by Phillip Pullman
- Once Upon a Time in the North by Phillip Pullman
- His Dark Materials by Nicholas Wright (the script of the stageplay from a few years ago)

Not to mention the usual comic books:
- Superman Batman: Absolute Power by Jeph Loeb (my opinion of Loeb sinks lower with every story)
- Green Arrow: Heading into the Light by Judd Winick with J. Calafiore (the first really unsatisfying story in the saga of the resurrected GA)

There's also school reads, of course:
- On the Market: Strategies for a Successful Academic Job Search by Sandra L. Barnes
- Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
- Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
- How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing by Paul J. Silvia

And I have to make sure I (re)read the books I make my students read:
- The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick
- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

All that in the past thirteen days. Sheesh!

 

[Reanok]

Just finished reading tthe Enterprise Novel By the book by Dean Weasley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch. I just started reading The Great Starship Race by Diane Carey.

 

[BrotherBenny]

I just finished Malcolm Pryce's Don't Cry for me Aberystwyth, a nice pastiche of a cold war novel done in Welsh noir style. Will pick up the next book when I have the money.

Next up is James McGee's Ratcatcher, a Bow Street Runner in Regency London.

 

[Steve Roby]

Next up is James McGee's Ratcatcher, a Bow Street Runner in Regency London.

I read that and liked it well enough, but it's not exactly the most original novel I've read. The two main characters, as I recall, were like a darker version of Sharpe and Harper from Cornwell's Sharpe books. Still, I may give the second book a shot one of these days.

 

[rahullak]

Vagueness by Timothy Williamson. Philosophy of language. Graduate course.

 

[BrotherBenny]

Next up is James McGee's Ratcatcher, a Bow Street Runner in Regency London.

I read that and liked it well enough, but it's not exactly the most original novel I've read. The two main characters, as I recall, were like a darker version of Sharpe and Harper from Cornwell's Sharpe books. Still, I may give the second book a shot one of these days.

With about 80 Star Trek books to read, I wanted some crime and fantasy to balance it out. Ratcatcher just caught my eye really.

 

[Warp Coil]

I took a few books with me on vacation. Read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for the first time. Never ready the Potter books and never saw the films. I always assumed it was too much of a children's book, but I was oddly curious so I borrowed the book from a friend. I actually enjoyed it a bit. May pick up the second book at some point.

Started reading Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes on the airplane back home. The first fifty pages or so haven't been terribly exciting but hopefully it picks up.

I have a couple of other books I want to read but school may push them to the backburner for a while.

 

[John Clark]

I'll be starting on "Welcome to Promise City" by Greg Cox

 

[mackula]

Just finished Fearful Symmetry which I thought was great. Now finally starting Destiny: Book 1. I wanted to get thru the main bulk of the DS9 Relaunch.

 

[David R. George III]

I just finished DRG3's amazing Lost Era book, Serpents Among the Ruins, the first book by i've read by Mr. George. What a fantastic read . Aventeer Vokar is one of the best trek villains of all time! I still need to process all my thoughts about the book; it was that good. I'm moving onto Iron & Sacrifice, DRG3's Captain Sulu story from the anthology Tales of the Captain's Table. Mr. George, you have another fan for life!

Wow. I am of course delighted that you enjoyed Serpents so much. Thanks very much for the kind words.