Books

[dsrtao]

I've been running short of books.

_Midnight Alley_, Rachel Caine

Book three about the vampires of Morgantown, Texas. Now we know: these are the only vampires left in the world, and they are all getting sick. Also, nobody blinks at a 16 year old freshman girl switching mid-semester into senior-level courses, including physics. This may be because the author's understanding of physics appears to be at the pop-science level. Oooh, strings. Also also, we are now two for two in bad things happening at big off-campus parties.

Comments

[dsrtao]

I think I read to escape both reality and history. I view most of history as "examples in What Didn't Work Out Well". I've read most of the 18th-20th century's canonical literature, anyway.

[robertdfeinman.livejournal.com]

Try mysteries. They at least provide a puzzle to be solved which may be intellectually stimulating in a way far removed from other challenges.

There are enough varieties that you may find a genre you like. I once read all the Father Brown stories, but I'm cured now...

[ladymacgregor.livejournal.com]

hey - I LIKE Father Brown! AND Lord Peter Wimsey! AND Miss Marple! AND Spenser, and Precious Ramotswe, and Judge Dee, and Jane Austen (girl detective!) and Aunt Dimity, and . . .