I haven't done the Wednesday reading meme in ages, so here goes.

What I'm reading now:I'm actually in one of those brief moments between books.

Recently read: I just finished Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl, which I suspect I am the last person in the Anglophone world to read. But in case I'm not, to avoid spoilers I won't go into details, but I'll ( Read more... )

Recently read: I finished Annie Jacobsen's Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazis Scientists to America, in the sense that I gave up on it. The topic--the US recruitment of Nazi scientists after the Second World War--is important and interesting, but I couldn't get through Jacobsen's prose. She's a journalist and ( Read more... )

Currently reading: The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley. As I mentioned last week, reading Death by Silver gave me a craving for Sherlock Holmes pastiche (Death by Silver isn't pastiche, but it isn't a million miles away from it either). I'm actually liking The Mammoth Book more than I like a lot of pro pastiche, in ( Read more... )

Currently reading: Oliver Sacks's Seeing Voices, which is about sign language and its history, particularly in the education of deaf people. The book could be deeper and more detailed; in particular I'd have liked more about the structure of sign languages rather than just Sacks marvelling at their uniqueness and complexity. But it's interesting, ( Read more... )

Currently reading: I was in the mood for some entertaining nonfiction, so I'm roughly a third of the way through Amy Stewart's The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Created the World's Great Drinks. It's more factual and historical than anecdotal, which I like, and Stewart carefully distinguishes between legend and what's actually known through ( Read more... )

I haven't read as much as usual this last week. My life has been basically: go to work, come home, cook and eat dinner, wash dishes, write 500 words, go to bed.

Currently reading: I'm still slowly working through Andrew Roberts' The Storm of War.

Recently finished: I happened across some mystery novels that were favorites of my mother's, namely ( Read more... )

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