So what are you reading now?
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Finished Destiny, which was a letdown. I'm putting the rest of my Trek reading on indefinite hold until such time as my interest in the universe returns. Instead, I spotted re-issues of Robert Sawyer's Quintaglio Ascencion trilogy at the store, which I meant to get around to reading after going through his Neanderthal Parallax trilogy and forgot about. It's another world-in-peril, but I've always liked Sawyer's view of the future and humanity, so I'm hoping this one will have a cheerier ending.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
The Quintaglio Ascension is a great trilogy. I highly recommend checking it out. I think it's one of his better works.
I'm wondering, has anyone read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier And Clay by Michael Chabon? I ask because it's caught my attention, but the library has it on hold until the 23rd century and I'm hesitant to spend money on an author I've never read. Is it worth the blind buy?
I have it but haven't read it yet. Every review I've seen of it has been a rave. Pop culture geeks who love old comics love it, lit geeks who love modern American literature love it.
It occasionally meanders, pacing-wise, but it's excellent. I strongly recommend it.
I will shortly be going to Paris for the weekend (where I will propose to my girlfriend) and I'm taking Dominion War: Book Three: Tunnel Through The Stars, Criminal Minds: Finishing School, and my Sony eReader - on which I am reading 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.
Not that we'll have much time for reading...
Not that we'll have much time for reading...
She doesn't visit the Trek BBS, I take it?
Good luck, BrotherBenny, we're all excited for you, I'm sure! 
I have, and I thought it was quite excellent.
Heavens, I've left you all un-updated on my reading for far too long.
- Green Arrow 3: Straight Shooter by Judd Winick
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Volume Six: Vindication by John Jackson Miller
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Wind Raiders of Taloraan by John Ostrander
- Rann-Thanagar Holy War, volume one by Jim Starlin
Today I started Not the End of the World, a short-story collection by Kate Atkinson, and I also resumed Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, which I started during the semester because I thought we were reading it for class, but my professor changed his mind when I was halfway through, so I put it aside. (That's what I get for trying to read ahead, I suppose.) But now I want to take a stab at finishing it (and other school books I neglected during the semester).
My reading was a little slow for a bit, but I did finish Order 66 last week and then go on to read all of Time, Unincorporated: The Doctor Who Fanzine Archives, Vol. 1: Lance Parkin. The latter was an excellent read, but then Lance Parkin always is. I've picked up somewhat since, zipping through four comics:
- Green Arrow 3: Straight Shooter by Judd Winick
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Volume Six: Vindication by John Jackson Miller
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Wind Raiders of Taloraan by John Ostrander
- Rann-Thanagar Holy War, volume one by Jim Starlin
Today I started Not the End of the World, a short-story collection by Kate Atkinson, and I also resumed Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, which I started during the semester because I thought we were reading it for class, but my professor changed his mind when I was halfway through, so I put it aside. (That's what I get for trying to read ahead, I suppose.) But now I want to take a stab at finishing it (and other school books I neglected during the semester).
I'd rather not talk about how this resolution panned out.
Please, don't ever do that to us again!!
Since my own most recent update, I have completed The Time Traveler's Wife, as well as The Children of the Company by Kage Baker, The Deep Blue Good-by by John D. MacDonald, and Digging to America by Anne Tyler, all of which I would review positively. I'm currently a quarter of the way through Voyage of the Star Wolf by David Gerrold, which started out a little slow but is starting to pick up nicely now.
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My recent reading includes: Zodiac, a Doctor Who Short Trips anthology edited by Jacqueline Rayner; Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects and Dark Places; Mark McGurl's The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing; and Looking for Jake by China Mieville. I'm currently working on The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton, Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, Kate Atkinson's Not the End of the World, Jerome Karabel's The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and Wendy Kaminer's Worst Instincts: Cowardice, Conformity, and the ACLU. And sometime next week I'll start Losing the Peace, as soon as UPS delivers it.
What's the Atkinson like? We have one of her books; Laura read it and liked it, but I haven't read it yet. As for Wuthering Heights, that was one of the novels I enjoyed the most out of my required reading as an English major many years ago.
That was not one of my favourite required reading experiences. All I remember is a lot of talking about religion.
And what do you think about it?
Hadn't heard of that one, though I've read three of her other books.
Having finished the Time Hunter series, I've just started reading a Denise Mina novel, called Sanctum if you're in the Commonwealth and Deception if you're in the USA. A psychiatrist is found guilty of murdering a killer released from prison, and her husband, trying to find a basis to appeal her conviction, keeps coming across disturbing evidence that she was involved in things he had no idea of. But I'm not sure he's a particularly reliable narrator.
I've only read a few of the Atkinson short stories so far, but I've also read four of her novels, which I thought were excellent. She's very good at crafting a mystery, and has a nice comic imagination.
The Kaminer is her newest book, and just came out. I've only read a couple pages so far, but it deals with the same criticisms of recent ACLU policy she's been making for a couple years now.
The Kaminer is her newest book, and just came out. I've only read a couple pages so far, but it deals with the same criticisms of recent ACLU policy she's been making for a couple years now.
Like Brendan, I'm not far into the book-- two stories, I think-- but I'm not displeased yet.
Since posting early, I've finished the Atkinson book (and the Kaminer, for that matter- yay for short, easy reads), and liked it a lot. It isn't as weighty as Atkinson's novels, even taking into account the usual difference in depth between novels and stories, but her eye for the humor and despair of daily life is intact.
Cool. I'll pass that along to Laura.
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