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.

What she said, though I did enjoy the part leading up to the wreck, too, especially the SF history, and I loved the captain.

I wanted the deluxe edition of Children of Hurin because of the Alan Lee illustrations but I realized that I couldn't afford it and the regular edition had the classic Tolkien map in it after all - so I got the regular edition.

Guess what? The regular edition is also illustrated by Alan Lee.

Sparky suggested I visit over here to ask if anyone's read Vellum or Ink ? Still new to the multithread.

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