Mon, Feb 26, 2007
Recent Books
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People who know me well (or who have seen the inside of my house) will be shocked to hear that I have done comparatively little reading of actual dead-tree books since I came home from Boston. I have been spending so much time writing, and reading blogs and such on-line, that I have not been reading much hardcopy text.
That changed this past weekend. I got received my copy of Deliverer, the latest book in C.J Cherryh's Foreigner series, from the Science Fiction Book Club on Thursday and inhaled it in two evenings. Last spring, when volume 8 came out, I bought paperbacks of all the previous volumes and used them as airplane reading for a few weeks. I don't think I have time to re-read all three trilogies if I want to continue writing, but I may reread the current trilogy, now that the story arc is complete. The mixture of alien aliens, adventure and comedy of manners in these books is wonderful, but the small slices of politics and social complications that can fit into single volumes are a little frustrating.
By the time I finished "Deliverer" I was on a roll and pulled some of last month's arrivals off the to-be-read stack. Between supper time Thursday and bedtime Sunday, I read about 1600 pages of dead-tree fiction. I also read all my usual blogs and webcomics (though Groklaw is a bit light with PJ on vacation) and browsed a few linked sites, and watched a fair amount of TV (I can read books and watch TV in parallel as long as it isn't subtitled).
One nice thing about dead-tree editions is there's no download lag time. And book club omnibus editions are handy because they collect series that can be hard to find the separate pieces of, or haven't been around for a while.