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... )

The best thing I have been reading today is, of course, Twitter: I woke up and read the night's Twitter coverage of Wendy Davis's stand about SB5 in Texas, and then throughout the day Twitter brought me the SCOTUS decisions on DOMA and Prop 8. It was a whole day of trying not to cry while reading Twitter.

But also, some books!

Just finished:

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Just Finished:

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:
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... )

1. I have started Packing For Real. Nine boxes of books so far, three and a half bookcases to go. Plus the DVDs. I am feeling like packing is ... pretty much under control? And am very pleased with the clever, clever me of 2008 who hoarded all these cardboard boxes for reuse. Me of 20-whatever is going to be shaking her fist at me of 2012, but ( 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... )

...Or to co-working, if it's a co-working night.

Anyway: after a week and a half of plodding through Downbelow Station twenty pages at a time, today I spent twenty minutes thinking I was about to reach the halfway point. And then I realized my math was wrong and I was still not halfway through the book, and the disappointment of not being halfway ( Read more... )

And then some days you sit there staring at 750words, totally flummoxed, and then give up and start a new novel. So... that's happening, apparently ( 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. )