Some current and recent reading

[jinasphinx]

Bellwether, by Connie Willis
Lighthearted novella, in the same sort of vein as To Say Nothing of the Dog, but with a contemporary setting. Lots of historical trivia about scientific discovery and fads. (The protagonist is a female sociology researcher whose specialty is fads.)

Lincoln's Dreams, by Connie Willis

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[tylik]

It's been some time since I read Lincoln's Dreams but I seem to recall that it did a pretty good job of ripping out my heart. It was one of her earlier books...

(For a follow up, if you haven't read it, I would highly recommend Richard Adam's Traveller. Yup, you heard it, the Civil War through the eyes of General Lee's horse. By the man who wrote Watership Down. I cried at the end. Damn, but that man can write.

And I'd actually read it again, unlike The Girl in the Swing - which is marvellously done, well written, and... no, not again. Dear gods.)