New book by Dave Barry: You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About
What are you reading?
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I haven't read Dave Barry in years. I should pick that up and share with my husband and dad (I know dad will appreciate it, anyway, husband is not much of a reader).
Last night I was trawling for free Amazon downloads and found something called "Greegs & Ladders", which is apparently "A Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Time Travel, Satire, Comedy, Sci-Fi Parody, Free Ebook Novel Thing". We'll see how that goes.
I still intend to download the complete "Wool", just as soon as I apply the gift card that's sitting on my desk. I need to stock up on readables before the baby comes, because I figure while he's nursing, I'm stuck sitting down and I can hold him with one hand and read with the other.
I have finished Anathem by Neal Stephenson. It was quite a journey, but definitely high-grade Hard SF. Not just an amazing exercise in world-building, somewhat like a cross between The Hobbit and Psychohistorical Crisis, but also a great cast of characters engaging in (literal) dialogues about science, philosophy, the philosophy of science, and the science of philosophy. Let me tell you, metaphysics is more than just intellectual finger-painting in this book. Highly recommended.
Next on my list was Fate of Worlds by Larry Niven-- but a draft of Sabrina Zbasnik's new novel as fallen into my hands, so I've started in on that.
I usually have an idea of the next two or three books I want to read, but it seldom works out-- see above.
Why are you giving us the silent treatment?
LOL! I have no voice thanks to... well, we think it's a sinus infection...
Aw, that sucks. 
I hope you feel better quickly.
I hope you feel better quickly.
I finished Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. I'm rereading it. I plan to read the entire series in the order they were published.
I'm reading Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto. Very interesting book with a unique structure.
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. I started it yesterday.
Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England, Sally Crawford.
Old English was such a fun language.
Old English was such a fun language.
I have (had?) a Shannara box set, but I honestly can't remember reading any of it. My best friends are all into fantasy far more than I am - I like to say that Sonja is elves, Melissa is dragons, Lori is anime, and I'm starships and 'splosions.
The Greegs book is starting off pretty slow. No plot yet, although the author warns of that in the first few pages. I also downloaded "Looking Backward" (Bellamy) which I read at least once in high school, so I might just go ahead and re-read that instead of slogging through this strange, verbiose, plot-less mess.
Currently reading 'The Running Man' by Richard Bachman....
Has anyone heard of that author? (He kinda looks like Stephen King).
Ah Running Man. If I remember correctly King wrote it in something daft like three days, and it shows, really fast paced if quite rough around the edges.
Actually I just checked and apparently it took a week to write!
Right now, I'm reading the March April 2014 issue of New Scientist
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.107/past.aspx
Nice whale shark cover.
Inside was a bit on pebble bed reactors, and on page 84 we see letters on data preservation..ahot button issue with libraries under attack. I once heard Penn of Penna nd Teller attack the institution of public libraries BTW.
Earthquake Lights are dealt with on page 88:
http://srl.geoscienceworld.org/content/85/1/159.full
According to this brief bit the lights are real--but there is still a part of me that thinks a buried cable may be at fault. Night tornadoes are often given away by transformers flashing around the base of the otherwise invisible funnel.
Henry Petroski's article "Impossible Points, Erroneous Walks" shows how badly art can botch up depictions of everyday items.
What really captured my attention were self folding sheets of interconnecting tiles...laser machining and pop-up assembly
The most stunning photograph is of a tiny 1:900 size model of the 1903 Wright flyer with a wingspan of only 14 millimeters.
"The whole biplane form emerged from a nearly flat machined structure."
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.107/past.aspx
Nice whale shark cover.
Inside was a bit on pebble bed reactors, and on page 84 we see letters on data preservation..ahot button issue with libraries under attack. I once heard Penn of Penna nd Teller attack the institution of public libraries BTW.
Earthquake Lights are dealt with on page 88:
http://srl.geoscienceworld.org/content/85/1/159.full
According to this brief bit the lights are real--but there is still a part of me that thinks a buried cable may be at fault. Night tornadoes are often given away by transformers flashing around the base of the otherwise invisible funnel.
Henry Petroski's article "Impossible Points, Erroneous Walks" shows how badly art can botch up depictions of everyday items.
What really captured my attention were self folding sheets of interconnecting tiles...laser machining and pop-up assembly
The most stunning photograph is of a tiny 1:900 size model of the 1903 Wright flyer with a wingspan of only 14 millimeters.
"The whole biplane form emerged from a nearly flat machined structure."
I started House of Secrets by Tracie Peterson yesterday. I finished Nineteen Minutes by Jodie Picoult the other day.
Currently reading 'The Running Man' by Richard Bachman....
Has anyone heard of that author? (He kinda looks like Stephen King).
Ah Running Man. If I remember correctly King wrote it in something daft like three days, and it shows, really fast paced if quite rough around the edges.
Actually I just checked and apparently it took a week to write!
I do agree it's a bit rough around the edges...
Almost finished The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It is the 8th book in the Pendergast series and I am reading it despite saying I wouldn't read another Pendergast book until April.
"Speaker for the Dead" by Orson Scott Card
