Just finished:

I finally finished listening to A Short History of Nearly Everything! And now I know, or at least have heard, a lot of charming stories about a wide array of loosely connected topics. &Bill Bryson;

Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh. This one is, fairly subtly, in the same continuity as his first novel, Soft Apocalypse, which I ( Read more... )

...It's been that sort of week.

Just finished:

The Murderer's Tale by Margaret Frazer, because after the last one I wanted another Dame Frevisse mystery posthaste. This one was as excellent as usual but hard to read because--as the title might suggest--the book spends a lot of time with the murderer, who is a fairly unpleasant person. The actual ( Read more... )

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Lots, this week!

Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton. I was enjoying this well enough, interested in the characters and the worldbuilding and so on, and then I got about 85% of the way through it and went OH! THIS IS A ROMANCE! IT'S GOING TO HAVE A HAPPY ENDING! I have no idea why that was such a huge and delightful revelation--maybe the ( Read more... )

Just finished:
Embarrassingly, I haven't finished a thing since my last Wednesday post. The book group meeting for which I was reading The Algebraist overtook me before I'd gotten more than a hundred pages into the book, and the discussion, while delightful, did not persuade me that it was a book I wanted to finish ( Read more... )

Just finished:
I (inadvisably, since my very busy workday started at 8:30 this morning) stayed up until past midnight to listen to the end of volume 4 of The Sharing Knife. I've read it at least twice before but, sigh, story of my HEART. And I love epilogues with a deep and unholy love, so I definitely wasn't going to bed before that.

Reading now: ( Read more... )

Today's changes to my stack of library requests:

1) Cancelled my request for Bitterblue (12 of 27 on the wait list), due to borrowing iuliamentis's copy while I was spending the day with her.

2) Requested Lonesome Dove, so I can find out why my brand-new tiny nephew is named Call.

3) Requested What Maisie Knew, so I can brace myself for the movie version ( Read more... )

1. Change of job-location is going well so far. I really like everyone I work with and the job I'm doing (inasmuch as I know what job I'm doing; a few things are still not perfectly clear), so the main downside is the car-to-bus commute, which is a bit aggravating, but on the bright side, temporary ( Read more... )

So, once again I'm abandoning a book I've been reading for a week and a half and still haven't gotten halfway through. Granted that I spent several days not reading it because of brain-immersion elsewhere--I didn't miss it, and today when I picked it up again I still wasn't particularly anxious to keep going with it. Also I already missed the ( Read more... )

Step two: ???

So, not an especially productive evening so far, but all my Firefox tabs have been assiduously refreshed and my books-read spreadsheet is up to date.

This month's reading so far:

( First contact, more different first contact, first contact plus snow and ice, last contact, exotic tribespeople, and exotic fairies. )

So a little over six months ago (which means now I qualify for paid sick time!) I switched from working in an academic library to working in a public library. I was happy with the switch for lots of reasons--I am apparently kind of a weirdo librarian in that more reference work makes me really, really happy--but one thing that this changed is that ( Read more... )