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I just recently finished "Reading the OED" by Ammon Shea, and last night finished "An Exaltation of Larks" by James Lipton (wonderful!)

 

Tonight I'll be starting "The Meaning of Everything" by Simon Winchester (story of the making of the OED - can you tell I'm on a roll, theme-wise?! :roflmho: )

 

Before "Reading the OED", I worked my way through all of the "The Cat Who..." books by Lilian Jackson Braun, for fun (like potato chips, one every one or two nights - they go quick). But when I got to the first one that was ghost written (ugh! It was really obvious), I quit.

Don't forget Simon Winchester's the Professor and the Madman - his first OED theme book!

I also enjoyed his Krakatoa whilst vacationing in volcano strewn Guatemala.

 

Oh, I read The Professor and the Madman ages ago. Wonderful book. (So was The Map the Changed the World). I may read it again after reading this one, though, just for good measure... :D

 

I'm also in the middle of The River at the Center of the World... I love Simon Winchester! :thumbup:

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A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel. She's delightful.

I tried reading her, "Beyond Black" and just couldn't finish it. Is all her work so dark?

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Now reading Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear

 

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Now reading Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear

 

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I love Greg Bear, a local boy! How is that one?

"If we faked going to the Moon, why did we fake it nine times?" -- Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke

 

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Now reading Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear

 

John

 

I love Greg Bear, a local boy! How is that one?

 

 

This one is a re-read for me. The book is quite good and is very well paced, as most of Bear's work seems to be. I wasn't completely blown away by the sequel Darwin's Children though, but I will re-read it as well. My favorite Bear novel remains Moving Mars though.

 

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Now reading Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear

 

John

 

I love Greg Bear, a local boy! How is that one?

 

 

This one is a re-read for me. The book is quite good and is very well paced, as most of Bear's work seems to be. I wasn't completely blown away by the sequel Darwin's Children though, but I will re-read it as well. My favorite Bear novel remains Moving Mars though.

 

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I will definitely pick it up. I'm a big science fiction fan. Do you know Stanislaw Lem? His four best and most famous works are The Cyberiad, Solaris, Return from the Stars and Fiasco. All four of those books blew my mind. There's a reason why Lem is called "The Best Science Fiction Writer in Any Language."

"If we faked going to the Moon, why did we fake it nine times?" -- Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke

 

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Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard

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Just starting on "Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women: A Routledge Anthology" Edited by Harriet Devine Jump....yum! :puddle:

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I am currently reading Writing Motherhood by Lisa Garrigues and What To Expect the First Year by Heidi Murkoff.

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His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, finished The Golden Compass and half way through The Subtle Knife. Short, geared toward the younger, but older fantasy readers can definitely enjoy.

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Having just finished the Pickwick Papers, I'm currently trying to decide what to read next. Perhaps I'll brush up on my German with The Last Centaur, or else a King Arthur story.

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Fun:

Ilium by Dan Simmons (really interesting)

White Night by Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files is a great series)

 

Work:

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (starting the dissertation work...)

Fables Vol. 1: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham (teaching it for a class)

 

Non-fiction wise I'm reading A Patriot's History of the United States by Schweikart and Allen

 

Can you tell I'm an English prof?!

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About two days ago, I started reading Libra by Don Delillo after finishing The Wind-up Bird Chronicle from Haruki Murakami.

 

 

How'd you like/how are you liking Libra??

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