It's been a while since I've discovered any new mystery series that I liked enough to dive into. This discovery happened because friend the 1st insisted friend the 2nd read a book that friend the 1st had just read & loved. Sadly, friend the 2nd doesn't much care for mysteries, but when he was done I scooped up the book & read it. I was conflicted, ( Read more... )

Finally finished Ravens in Winter, by Bernd Heinrich. It's the story of how Heinrich discovered an interesting communication behavior in ravens. Being a field biologist, he then devised experiments to determine why it happens. The book tells the journey of hypothesis after hypothesis created, only to be disproved, and finally arrives at an ( Read more... )

Recently read:
Desert Heat, J. A. Jance
Force of Nature, Stephen Solomita

Currently open:
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Graham

In the stack:
(fiction)
Hard Truth, Nevada Barr
The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant
Dead to Rights, J. A. Jance
Roller Skates, Ruth Sawyer
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
(non-fiction)
Pecked to Death by Ducks, Tim Cahill
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I wasn't reading much for a couple of months. I seem to have started up again last month, but my few posts about books are over at stackofbooks ( gushing over Neil Gaiman, or my grumblings about Harry Potter, anyone?).

If I haven't mentioned it, stackofbooks is a casual place to offer reviews, ask for recommendations, and suchlike. We're not a super-busy or super- ( Read more... )

I just finished reading Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey--The Sweet Liquid Gold That Seduced the World, by Holley Bishop. My review is posted at stackofbooks.

Howdy!

Since there's no such thing as too much talking about books, zhaneel & I formed a new community called stackofbooks. It's a place to get recommendations, offer reviews, or just list the titles you're currently reading. There also will be the occasional deeper discussion about something that catches our fancy.

I hope you'll join us.