Thanks to Chitown Kev for filling in last week.
Next Friday I am having shoulder surgery but I should be able to do WAYR the following week.
In this series I note what I am reading and people comment with what they're reading. Sometimes, on Sundays, I post a special edition on a particular genre or topic.
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Just finished
Priests of the Shadow Bible by Ian Rankin. Part of the John Rebus series, this one concerns events of 30 years ago and their reverberations today.
This is typical of the series, perhaps not the strongest Rankin, but still good.
Now reading
Leibniz: An intellectual biography by Maria Rosa Antognazza. Leibniz was co-inventor of calculus (with Isaac Newton) but he also made contributions to law, philosophy, physics, economics, chemistry, geology, medicine, linguistics, history and more. This book is good, but fairly dense.
21st Century Science Fiction ed. by David Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden. A collection of shorter length SF from the first decade of the 21st century.
The Yamato Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave. The "secret" history of Japan's emperors, especially during World War II and after. A bleak story of how the Japanese people have been manipulated and how MacArthur made people lie about war crimes.
Citizens by Simon Schama. The French Revolution. I found the prologue confusing, but it's getting better as I get into it.
I play bridge and I decided to start listing bridge books I am reading
Card Play Technique by Victor Mollo and Nico Gardner. One of the classics of bridge literature. Subtitled "The art of being lucky". Very well written, intended for that huge class of bridge players called "intermediate".
Just started
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway. Really excellent novel in an SF vein, set in both present day and world war II. Girl super-spies, a female super-genius, a clockmaker who might (by accident) end free will, an evil Asian potentate and more, all mixed together with some really fine English usage.
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