First, thanks to KVoimakas for filling in last week.
For those who are new ... we discuss books. I list what I'm reading, and people comment with what they're reading. Sometimes I post a special edition on a particular genre or topic.
cfk has Bookflurries on Wednesday nights, with links to lots of other diaries about books and reading on daily Kos .
Just finished
A re-read of Going postal by Terry Pratchett. Wonderful stuff, one of the best of the Discworld novels (although one that depends less than most on it being Discworld). Full Review
Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices by Noah Feldman. The story of Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter and Robert Jackson, and how they worked with (and against) each other on the Supreme Court, which was once described as "Nine scorpions in a bottle". An absolutely wonderful book. Highly recommended to anyone interested in the Supreme Court, the constitution, or this period of US history. Full review to come. I read this on my Kindle
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Historical fiction about Henry VIII and that period, told from the point of view of Thomas Cromwell, with the villain being Thomas More. Wonderfully written, and, from what I read in other reviews, historically defensible. But it was kind of hard to follow; the author uses a lot of personal pronouns, and often refers to characters by first name, which is tricky because half the men are named Thomas and half the women are named Mary.
Now reading
The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the dark ages by Chris Wickham. A really good history of Europe and western Asia, from 400 to 1000 AD.
The Great SF stories volume 1: 1939 ed. by Isaac Asimov and Martin Greenberg. I have this whole series on my shelf and I think I will re-read them
The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton. Far future science fiction of the space opera variety. Just started.
Just started
A reread of Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett. Lights! Camera! Action! Holy wood is coming to Discworld!
The autobiography of Mark Twain. Twain's autobiography is unusually structured, and I am still in the introduction that explains the book.
And some technical books for work.