recent reading #6

[adelaidesean]

This doesn't seem like a month's worth of reading to me, but it doesn't include a couple of books that aren't out yet, which I was fortunate enough to read in ms form.  So that makes me feel a bit better.

• The White Mountains by John Christopher (an old fave)
• Astonish Yourself: 101 Experiments in Philosophy of Everyday Life by Roger-Pol Droit
• Sum: Forty tales from the afterlives by David Eagleman (mind-blowing)
• The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry *
• Keystone by Peter Lovesey (my favourite crime writer)
• Beards of our Forefathers and Clever Tricks to Stave Off Death (Wondermark) by David Malki (hilarious!)
• The Straw Men, Michael Marshall (awesome!)
• WomanSpeak, Louise Nicholas and Jude Aquilina (clever, and funny too)
• Dark Country by Bronwyn Parry
• The Math Book by Clifford A. Pickover (maths never looked this good)

* In truth, I haven't finished the Fry yet.  I insist on doing the exercises and work unfortunately has got in the way.  I will get back to it, though, and I'll resist the temptation to post the results here. :-)

Comments

[catsparx.livejournal.com]

How the hell do you ever find time to read so much???

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

(1) Travel a lot. (2) Don't watch much TV. (3) Have to do it for things like the Big Book Club. (4) Choose only short books. (5) Choose only *great* books. (6) Make it a priority. (7) Don't have a life. :-)

Thanks for the Straw Men rec, btw. It was terrific!

[catsparx.livejournal.com]

But you pretty much always seem to have seen the shows we've seen... I suspect you of manipulating time in order to squeeze out extra reading time. Yeah, Straw men rocked. I need another MM book asap.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Nah. You and Rob watch way more than me. I think YOU are the one manipulating time!

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about the Fry. I must get a copy. That would make a great addition to my over-full poetry shelves (when you have a lot of favourite poets, the collections and the anthologies mount up).

[aidandoyle.livejournal.com]

I haven't read much this month at all. I'm reading Murakami's Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World at the moment.
But I have heard lots of good things about Sum: Forty tales from the afterlives.

[sens-it.livejournal.com]

You may like a review on 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life by Roger-Pol Droit

http://sensit.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/101-experiments-in-the-philosophy-of-everyday-life/