More books!

[gridlore]

I've run out of things to read, and really needed to get out of the apartment, so I schlepped down to B&N. Pretty good haul.

David Drake - The Tank Lords. Been years (decades, actually) since I read Hammer's Slammers. Since I'm going to Conjecture and will probably end up on panels with Mr. Drake, seems to be a good time to reread them.

Iain M. Banks - Excession. Slowly but surely I'm working my way through the Culture novels.

Allen Steele - Lunar Descent. I really enjoyed the Colony trilogy and this book appears to focus on blue collar workers on the Moon. I like his writing style, so I'm looking forward to this one.

Eric Flynt & Ryk E. Spoor - Boundary. I've been looking for one of seawasp's books for a while now. The back cover blurb is interesting, and I think I'll have fun with the story.

Looked at a couple of history books, but nothing leapt out at me.

So, what are y'all reading right now?

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[meglimir.livejournal.com]

Re-reading Elgin's Ozark trilogy, reading Jewish with Feeling by Reb Zalman, putting together mini-reviews of this month's reading list to post at LibraryThing and 80in08 :D

[nobleplatypus]

I'm reading Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife or something to that effect, by... Mary Roach? I think. I'm too lazy to actually go grab the book, but it's a surprisingly hilarious read. I wonder if she'll even dignify photographed "spirit orbs" with a mention? XD

[mikkop.livejournal.com]

I just finished both Canal Dreams and The Business. I'm trying to read Banks's non-scifi novels.

Today I'm picking up a Finnish translation of Moby Dick from the local library. I haven't read it and I've been trying to read some classic novels, so I thought I'd try this one.

[pompe.livejournal.com]

I'm rereading Herodotus, Rashid's book on the Taleban and Jo Walton's Farthing and Elizabeth Bear's Hammered.

[grimmwire.livejournal.com]

Charles Stross, Accellerando
Clifford Pickover, The Science of Aliens
Chuck Klosterman, IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (Funny and insightful pop-culture commentary)
Chris Jones, Too Far From Home (Pretty good nonfiction about astronauts and cosmonauts who have been stranded on space stations)

[darthgeek.livejournal.com]

Reaper Man by PTerry and Adventures of a No Name Actor by Marco Perella.