Just finished the latest Kim Harrison. She brought me back tothe fold with that ending
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
We're having our charity book sale here at work today. As is usual, while we were setting up the books on tables in the cafeteria, people started coming over and looking through them even though we weren't ready to open up yet (no money, no signs with prices, etc.). I did a fast look-through to see if there was anything I'd want, and got Molly Ivins' Shrub, The Alienist, and Time-Travelers Wife, for $4 total! And then, while I was handling the sales for the first few hours, someone came up with Eats Shoots and Leaves, which I totally missed on my cursory lookthrough and I am thoroughly bummed because he got it instead of me. Humph.
The Onion's AV Club is firing on all cylinders this week: neither the random rules interview with Berkeley Breathed nor the collection of favorite Vonnegut quotes should be missed.
Dear Book Pimpers:
Have finished Shards of Honor. Stop. Library has Barrayar on hold for me; will pick it up after work. Stop. Was at Half-Price Books at lunchtime; bought To Say Nothing of the Dog. Stop.
I also noticed, when at Half-Price Books and looking for Barrayar, that LeVar Burton has a book in the Science Fiction section. This both amuses and troubles me.
I'm still troubled when I catch Reading Rainbow and see his actual eyes.
LeVar Burton has a book in the Science Fiction section
James Doohan did a series of three with S. M. Stirling that are pretty good space opera.
Ages ago, Lee recommended a non-fiction book about a shipwreck. Was it In the Heart of the Sea, or something else? [link]
Nope-- it was a Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea. [link]
Cool. I didn't think that was it, but I couldn't remember. Now I have another to read.
When I'm up to another shipwreck, anyway. This one was excellent, really gripping, but harrowing.
Ship of Gold is more about the hunt for the shipwreck one hundred years later than it is about the wreck itself. Well, it's about that, but the part I liked the best was about finding it, and the battle over the salvage rights.
Yes, I studied the Abandoned Shipwreck Act in law school. t /geek
... which, consider what I do for a living, is pretty damned ironic. Or prophetic, or something. Something poetic.