May Reading Placeholder: Paired Reads
My book notes are on the baby laptop's hard drive. Until I can pull them, paired reads for the books I remember finishing. Subject to modification should I recall further titles.
Girl, Interrupted (Susanna Kaysen): Girl Interrupted At Her Music, Vermeer.
The Collapsium (Wil McCarthy): nonfiction about exotic physics and/or materials engineering.
Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein): Ender's Game (military and morality) or Rite of Passage (enfranchisement, or maturity).
Polio, An American Story (David M. Oshinsky): more epidemiological histories, especially malaria.
6xH (Robert Heinlein): I'd need six pairs for the six shorts in here, so I'm only doing it if asked.
Fragmentary rereads:
Stardust (Neil Gaiman, Charles Vess): Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter. Inspiration? Homage? You decide!
Last Herald-Mage trilogy (Mercedes Lackey): Cherryh's Nighthorse novels (bacon!)
Paladin of Souls (Lois McMaster Bujold): A.) nonfiction on the history of medieval Spain, especially religion and the Reconquista; B.) fantasy novels dealing with spirit. Perhaps Fortress of Ice.
It is ninety degrees out (32 C for the metric people), so I am, of course, reading Fortress of Ice (C. J. Cherryh), Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury), and just finished a book on polio (see above). For my next trick, I will start the history of chemical warfare I picked up at the library yesterday, or possibly reread the Judith Butler extracts in the comp. lit. course packet I found while cleaning, or maybe find some nonfiction about doomed polar expeditions.
Girl, Interrupted (Susanna Kaysen): Girl Interrupted At Her Music, Vermeer.
The Collapsium (Wil McCarthy): nonfiction about exotic physics and/or materials engineering.
Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein): Ender's Game (military and morality) or Rite of Passage (enfranchisement, or maturity).
Polio, An American Story (David M. Oshinsky): more epidemiological histories, especially malaria.
6xH (Robert Heinlein): I'd need six pairs for the six shorts in here, so I'm only doing it if asked.
Fragmentary rereads:
Stardust (Neil Gaiman, Charles Vess): Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter. Inspiration? Homage? You decide!
Last Herald-Mage trilogy (Mercedes Lackey): Cherryh's Nighthorse novels (bacon!)
Paladin of Souls (Lois McMaster Bujold): A.) nonfiction on the history of medieval Spain, especially religion and the Reconquista; B.) fantasy novels dealing with spirit. Perhaps Fortress of Ice.
It is ninety degrees out (32 C for the metric people), so I am, of course, reading Fortress of Ice (C. J. Cherryh), Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury), and just finished a book on polio (see above). For my next trick, I will start the history of chemical warfare I picked up at the library yesterday, or possibly reread the Judith Butler extracts in the comp. lit. course packet I found while cleaning, or maybe find some nonfiction about doomed polar expeditions.