Hello, strangers!
I haven't been here for a very long time. I'm not sure why. It's not like I've changed anything major that would take up all the time I used to devote to LJ.
Well, I am reading a lot. I've given up on literary fiction since it just kept depressing the shit out of me. I'm pretty much all genre all the time, now. Mystery, sci-fi, and fantasy for the most part.
These are the books I've been reading:
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson. They're all part of what's called The Millennium Trilogy and are murder mysteries that take place in Sweden and they're really dark and brutal in some parts, but still really good. One of the main characters, Lisbeth Salander, is one of the most interesting characters I've ever met on a page.
Still Life, A Fatal Grace, and The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny. She's totally my favorite mystery novelist, now, and that's saying a lot. Her books are set in a small fictional Quebec town called Three Pines and I'm sad that it's fictional because I want to move there. Her eye for detail and for characters is as good as Agatha Christie's, but her writing style just flows so beautifully and you get sucked into the prose just as strongly as you do the amazing plots.
The Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher. I only started these to tide me over until Butcher puts out his next Dresden Files novel because seriously? Did anybody else read the last chapter of Changes and go, "Wait? What? What the mother fuck just happened?" Anyway, since we have to wait until March of 2011 to get the next Dresden book, I decided to try out Codex Alera and I'm kind of hooked. I just started book three, so nobody spoil me! Although, I'd already figured out one of the "secret" plot points of the series halfway through the first book because, well, duh. But still.
Hyperspace by Michio Kaku. I love his writing style and how he presents physics in a way that I can actually almost grasp it, but ow. My brain.
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene. I don't actually understand special relativity, quantum mechanics, or the way string theory ties them together, but I understand them a lot more than I did before reading this book.
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Green. Light moves at something like 670 million miles an hour, and that's the universal speed limit. Nothing can ever go faster than the speed of light because the faster you travel through space, the slower you travel through time, and light never ages because it's going so fast that it doesn't have any room left in its spacetime velocity to experience time and also? If I think about physics for too long, I get dizzy. But I love it!
I've been reading Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels and they're kind of hilarious.
I'm starting Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy again because I didn't think it was funny the first time I read it and I want to give it another go.
That's all I can think of. I'm sure there have been other books. There always are. I'm slutty when it comes to books.
Well, I am reading a lot. I've given up on literary fiction since it just kept depressing the shit out of me. I'm pretty much all genre all the time, now. Mystery, sci-fi, and fantasy for the most part.
These are the books I've been reading:
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson. They're all part of what's called The Millennium Trilogy and are murder mysteries that take place in Sweden and they're really dark and brutal in some parts, but still really good. One of the main characters, Lisbeth Salander, is one of the most interesting characters I've ever met on a page.
Still Life, A Fatal Grace, and The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny. She's totally my favorite mystery novelist, now, and that's saying a lot. Her books are set in a small fictional Quebec town called Three Pines and I'm sad that it's fictional because I want to move there. Her eye for detail and for characters is as good as Agatha Christie's, but her writing style just flows so beautifully and you get sucked into the prose just as strongly as you do the amazing plots.
The Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher. I only started these to tide me over until Butcher puts out his next Dresden Files novel because seriously? Did anybody else read the last chapter of Changes and go, "Wait? What? What the mother fuck just happened?" Anyway, since we have to wait until March of 2011 to get the next Dresden book, I decided to try out Codex Alera and I'm kind of hooked. I just started book three, so nobody spoil me! Although, I'd already figured out one of the "secret" plot points of the series halfway through the first book because, well, duh. But still.
Hyperspace by Michio Kaku. I love his writing style and how he presents physics in a way that I can actually almost grasp it, but ow. My brain.
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene. I don't actually understand special relativity, quantum mechanics, or the way string theory ties them together, but I understand them a lot more than I did before reading this book.
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Green. Light moves at something like 670 million miles an hour, and that's the universal speed limit. Nothing can ever go faster than the speed of light because the faster you travel through space, the slower you travel through time, and light never ages because it's going so fast that it doesn't have any room left in its spacetime velocity to experience time and also? If I think about physics for too long, I get dizzy. But I love it!
I've been reading Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels and they're kind of hilarious.
I'm starting Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy again because I didn't think it was funny the first time I read it and I want to give it another go.
That's all I can think of. I'm sure there have been other books. There always are. I'm slutty when it comes to books.