Not remotely reviews
2007-11-29 | Filed under Books |
But a quick rundown of some of the books I’ve been reading recently, which you may also enjoy reading:
Night Watch and Day Watch: Recent guilty pleasures. Day Watch is my gym book (and sometimes my lunch book); it is conveniently sized to be held in one hand while on a recumbent bike, and the type is large enough that I can read it without straining my eyes or holding the book embarrassingly close to my nose.
When One Man Dies: More than once, I found myself sympathizing with Bill Martin; perhaps this means I am a bad person. Also easy to read on a recumbent bike, though I didn’t learn that until the last fifteen or twenty pages. Consider this a public service message to all crime fiction readers who also drag themselves to the gym.
The Concrete Maze: I have seen this book in grocery stores, as well as book stores. I hope this bodes well for sales, as everyone knows Americans don’t buy books but they do buy widgets.
Black Projects, White Knights, The Machine’s Child, and The Sons of Heaven: The final volumes in Kage Baker’s Company series, plus a collection of short stories. Some hand-waving and dispensing of god-like powers for the wrap up, but not without set up or the expected aspects of screwball comedy. These books, the series, and Kage Baker in general get a thumbs up.
Gentlemen of the Road: I sort of wish Chabon had gone with the working title, Jews with Swords; but for purposes of accuracy, I guess it would’ve had to change to One Jew with a Sword and Another Jew with an Ax, which doesn’t really have the same ring.
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yay I got my twilight watch last night.
Though I guess I’ll finish His Dark Materials first.
Day Watch will probably last another two or three sessions on the bike, so I guess next week I’ll pick up the third one.
I have a vague desire to read Pullman at some point, and the books are kicking around the house; but of late I’ve found I prefer to pace myself on the YA books. Deathly Hallows and just-couldn’t-get-into-it Un Lun Dun are still casting shadows.
Yeah or you can just borrow it next week if you want, I’ll probably be done. Then we have several months til the 4th book.
I’m pretty into the YAs right now and all have sated any desire to get into HP. I probably forgot to tell but I did borrow Un Lun Dun when you guys were on vacation a couple of months ago. LOVED it and finished it in like two days then returned it. I totally could not put it down! Liking the Pullman stuff quite a bit too, but very different from what I expected.
I’m not sure why I couldn’t get into it. At any given point, I thoroughly approved—how could anyone not love the binja?—but I just didn’t have any momentum. Timing and mood, probably.
The ratio of books I can get into to ones I cannot is getting worse each year. I have no patience apparently, sapped out of me by these thirty second Interet bites.