For those who are new ... we discuss books. I list what I'm 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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Readers & Book Lovers Series Schedule
DAY |
TIME (EST/EDT) |
Series Name |
Editor(s) |
SUN |
6:00 PM |
Young Reader's Pavilion |
The Book Bear |
SUN |
9:30 PM (hiatus) |
SciFi/Fantasy Book Club |
quarkstomper |
Every Other SUN |
Midnight |
Reading Ramblings |
don mikulecky |
MON |
8:00 PM |
Monday Murder Mystery |
Susan from 29 |
Mon |
11:00 PM |
My Favorite Books/Authors |
edrie, MichiganChet |
TUE |
10:00 PM |
Contemporary Fiction Views |
bookgirl |
WED |
7:30 AM |
WAYR? |
plf515 |
WED |
8:00 PM |
Bookflurries - Bookchat |
cfk |
THU |
8:00 PM |
Write On! |
SensibleShoes |
FRI |
8:00 AM |
Books That Changed My Life |
Diana In NOVA |
SAT |
11:00 AM (fourth of month) |
Windy City Bookworm |
Chitown Kev |
Sat |
9:00 PM |
Books So Bad They're Good |
Ellid |
Just finished
The Last Colony by John Scalzi. This is the third book in the series that started with Old Mans War and the Ghost Brigades. John Perry and his wife are retired from the military and living a quiet life, when they are called on to lead a new colony. Then they are back in the thick of it. Good fun. Full review
Now reading
The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four remarkable friends who transformed science and changed the world by Laura Snyder. A group biography of Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell and Richard Jones, four friends who met at Cambridge early in the 19th century, and of how, together, they changed the role of science into something like what it is today.
A Behavioral Theory of Elections by Jonathan Bendor et al. Traditional "rational choice" models of voter behavior don't mesh all that well with how voters actually behave, in particular, they don't do well with predicting turnout. This is an attempt at a different formulation. This will interest election geeks.
The Quantum Thief Post-singularity SF, with all sorts of philosophical geekiness.
Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution by Benson Bobrick. A good history of the revolutionary war period, hampered by a complete absence of maps.
Eminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France by Jean-Vincent Blanchard. If you thought politics is dirty now, read about what it was like in the days of Louis XIII. Very well done.
Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey by Peter Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus. A survey of the history of science from Copernicus to now.
A re-read of The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert Caro. This volume covers roughly the first 40 years of Johnson's life. Anyone who wants to understand LBJ should read this (if they have the time!) and anyone who wants to know (if they need to) what the New Deal meant for America, particularly one of its poorest areas (the hill country of Texas) should read it too
Just started .
A re-read of Eric by Terry Pratchett. Eric wants to summon a demon and make a deal. He doesn't want much. Three wishes. But instead of a demon, he gets Rincewind.