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Just finished
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. I read this on my Kindle
A reread of Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett. Lights! Camera! Action! Holy wood is coming to Discworld!
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.
The autobiography of Mark Twain. Twain's autobiography is unusually structured, and I am still in the introduction that explains the book.
Just started
A re-read of Small Gods by Terry Pratchett. In this one, Pratchett goes after fundamentalist religion. This is, I think, the first of the Discworld novels to show that Pratchett is more than a funny writer, but also a wise and brilliant one.
And some technical books for work.