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Book Post: Wells and Starobinets
I just finished two books in December. Mostly it was because I was catching up on the 500 pages of the fantasy book to finish it by the New Year, and then I started 950 page book that I finished in the New Year. And with working from home two days a week I had less time to read. But it's all fine since I finished most books I wanted to read in 2023 ( Read more... ) -
Book Post: McCullough, Bringley, Bujold and DiCamillo
The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough, 781pp [Masters of Rome 1].
About 20 years ago, one of my friends from grad school was heading back to her home country and left me four of the books in the Masters of Rome series to me as a gift. In the note inside, she wrote that she hoped these books will make me like teaching Roman history more since ( Read more... ) -
Book Post: Steinbeck, Weinersmith, Tesh, DiCamillo, Clark
I spent most of August reading "The First Man in Rome" by Colleen McCullough, which is a giant historical fiction book and which I was supposed to finish at the end of August but alas family illness and lack of commute intervened, so it will be in the September book post. Since it was such a big book, I did break it up with some novellas and ( Read more... ) -
Book Post: Wilson, Van Pelt, Hayes, Aaronivitch, Brust and Backman.
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson, 448pp [Hugo book]
A Hugo Award winner and I can see why as the concept is pretty interesting. Tyler and his wealthier twin neighbors Jason and Diane are teenagers when stars disappear from the sky. The Earth is basically wrapped in a bubble by some unknown aliens and the time outside the Earth is passing at out of ( Read more... ) -
Book Post: Mandel, Lindgren, McDonald, Le Tellier, Brosh.
The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel, 273pp
I wanted to read more by this author since I did like "Station Eleven". And this book takes place in a sort of parallel universe where the pandemic never happened. Two characters recur in this book - Leon and Miranda, so that link is there but this is not a sci-fi world, it is like our world. This book ( Read more... ) -
Book Post: Dahl, Backman, Kennedy, Parker-Chan
The Twits by Roald Dahl, 76pp
Tanya wanted to read this small book after reading an excerpt in the back of one of the other Dahl book and then she insisted I read it. So I did. It is very short but pretty funny. The Twits are a terrible husband and wife who play terrible and mean tricks on each other (Tanya laughed and laughed at those) and then ( Read more... ) -
Book Post: Chiang, Dahl, O'Leary, Leiber
Most books disappointed me this April. I have been reading a book in Russian that my Dad gave me for my birthday "Fox Fords" - it is 1,000 pages and I needed to break it up. I suspect it would take me awhile. So I would pick books that are either quick read or short for a distraction and most books I have been picking have mostly been frustrating. ( Read more... ) -
Book Post: Karunatilaka, Bujold, Prince Harry, Aaronovitch
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, 388pp [Booker Prize].
For the last few years I made a point to reading Booker Prize winners and sometimes it is hit and miss. But I really enjoyed this one. It is set in Sri Lanka in the 80s, Maali Almeida, a photographer in life who specialized in taking pictures for all the sides of the ( Read more... ) -
Book Post: Jaouad, Sacks, Ernaux, Aaronovitch
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad, 345pp
I read an article that recommended this book so I took it up, not knowing anything about the author or her popular column in the New York Times. All I knew this was a story of a young person in their early 20s who gets diagnosed with cancer and then deals with that and ( Read more... )