Books 14-22
The best thing about Spring Break is time to read some trash!
14 The 10 Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson (outloud with E). This was disappointing - for one, they were all physics experiments (except the first which was a geometry problem), and two, the author didn't really describe the experiments so much as tell about the experimenters.
15 Oathblood by Mercedes Lackey. Another re-read - this a collection of short stories about Tamra and Kethry. And I'm done with Lackey for quite some time if not forever.
16 Firebirds Rising, ed. Sharon November. This is a YA anthology and probably the best anthology of short stories I've read - nearly all of them were excellent. My favorite was about an orphan raised in a closed library by seven librarians. After finishing it I all but shoved it at kutay , insisted he MUST READ IT.
17 Giants Bones by Peter S. Beagle is a collection of short stories that I thought I might have already read but wasn't sure. I did already read it but I enjoyed it much more the second time around. David tells a lovely story, and I loved that they were all (I think) about adults, even elderly adults.
18. The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey (outloud with E). Holy crap, how have I never read this before?! It was a best seller! Anyway, this is a fabulous (true) story about a man who went around cutting priceless maps of volumes in libraries and then selling them. In the process you learn all sorts of amazing stuff about maps and libraries. It bogs down towards the end - it should have been a good 75 pages shorter - but overall a really excellent read. Highly recommended, especially if you love A) old maps, and/or B) libraries.
19. Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America by Miles Harvey (outloud with E). We enjoyed the first book so much we immediately ran out and bought the only other book he's written. This is about Jacques Le Moyne and a lost French colony where Jacksonville FL is. Like the first book, this is a bit too long, but somehow this all comes to together at the end. A really good read in general, but also a fabulous read for North American archaeologists.
20 & 21 Mercy and Shadow Dance by Julie Garwood. These are my spring break trashy romance reads. And they were most enjoyable.
22 Fire by Dickinson and McKinley features 3 stories by Dickson and 2 by McKinley. First two stories (one by each) were quite good, the second two (by D) were pretty blah, and the last (McK) was rather charming and could have been turned into a novel.
14 The 10 Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson (outloud with E). This was disappointing - for one, they were all physics experiments (except the first which was a geometry problem), and two, the author didn't really describe the experiments so much as tell about the experimenters.
15 Oathblood by Mercedes Lackey. Another re-read - this a collection of short stories about Tamra and Kethry. And I'm done with Lackey for quite some time if not forever.
16 Firebirds Rising, ed. Sharon November. This is a YA anthology and probably the best anthology of short stories I've read - nearly all of them were excellent. My favorite was about an orphan raised in a closed library by seven librarians. After finishing it I all but shoved it at kutay , insisted he MUST READ IT.
17 Giants Bones by Peter S. Beagle is a collection of short stories that I thought I might have already read but wasn't sure. I did already read it but I enjoyed it much more the second time around. David tells a lovely story, and I loved that they were all (I think) about adults, even elderly adults.
18. The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey (outloud with E). Holy crap, how have I never read this before?! It was a best seller! Anyway, this is a fabulous (true) story about a man who went around cutting priceless maps of volumes in libraries and then selling them. In the process you learn all sorts of amazing stuff about maps and libraries. It bogs down towards the end - it should have been a good 75 pages shorter - but overall a really excellent read. Highly recommended, especially if you love A) old maps, and/or B) libraries.
19. Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America by Miles Harvey (outloud with E). We enjoyed the first book so much we immediately ran out and bought the only other book he's written. This is about Jacques Le Moyne and a lost French colony where Jacksonville FL is. Like the first book, this is a bit too long, but somehow this all comes to together at the end. A really good read in general, but also a fabulous read for North American archaeologists.
20 & 21 Mercy and Shadow Dance by Julie Garwood. These are my spring break trashy romance reads. And they were most enjoyable.
22 Fire by Dickinson and McKinley features 3 stories by Dickson and 2 by McKinley. First two stories (one by each) were quite good, the second two (by D) were pretty blah, and the last (McK) was rather charming and could have been turned into a novel.