Me? Well, I’ve finished a couple of good reads just recently, because no can brainy for writey, but reading is coming back online. That’s a good sign. I’ll write up full reviews soon…
But if I look at my Kindle app, I’ve got several going. I’m sure I’m not alone in mood reading, and since I also read for research, and continuing education (ie mental stimulation) I’ve usually got a stack on the bedside stand, and a few in the downloaded folder on my phone (where I do most of my ebook reading).
So in no particular order:
Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements (fluffier than I was hoping for, but some interesting anecdotes and a bit of actual history sprinkled in)
The Collected Robert E Howard (I fully confess to skipping the boxing stories. Just not my bag)
Major General George H Sharpe (cool Civil War era spying biography)
and haven’t started yet because I need my sleep and I will gobble this one up in a sitting – Alma Boykin’s Eerily Familiar.
In paper? 
Flora Mirabilis is a gorgeous exploration of botany, history, and art. I am torn between loving the plant profiles and wanting to sketch from the botanical illustrations that appear on every page.
Molecular Quantum Mechanics has been my go-to for falling asleep, recently. And scaring me when it starts to make sense.
Myths of the Hindus, Botany in a Day, and the art books, are all reference/research reads. I haven’t yet started on the Thorwald, as I enjoyed his other work immensely but am not working on a mystery currently.
I have a sadly cluttered brain, and my lack of focus on reading is deplorable. It’s just that there are so many books, and so many interesting things to read about and learn!
How about you?
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I can only manage reading one book at a time. I was reading a paranormal mystery, but then yesterday the third book in an indie mystery series I’ve been fangirling over dropped, so I set the other book aside to dive into this. It’s The Witness Tree (Herbert and Melancon #3) by Seth Pevey. So far, so awesome. =o)
Have recently blitzed through of The Diving Universe by KKR.
Followed by books four and five in Diana Rowland’s Zombie romcoms.
Then read the first three books in Frontlines series by Mark Kloos, and waiting for Amazon to deliver the next three.
Currently reading Sins of Her Father by Mike Kupari.
peter grant
The Bible, of course (I’ve been reading it through every year for a long time). Then re-reading Square Foot Gardening and How to Grow More Vegetables (etc.) Than You Ever Thought Possible, by John Jeavons. Those are to psych me up for getting a vegetable garden going next year. Also various rather unimpressive romances – seem to go in cycles on those. When I don’t have much mental energy to spare, I read romances. But I do have some interesting books in the stack for when I have more ambition, like The Physics and Philosophy of the Bible. I’ve never heard of the author, so will be cautious with that one. Be Basic: Believing the Simple Truth of God’s Word by Warren Wiersbe, should be good, though. And I’ve started A Flood of Evidence by Ham and Hodge, and it is very good. Then in the paper stack I also have several books on world-building. I must say that some ‘science’ fiction romance writers do a really poor job of world-building, to the point that it throws me out of the story. I mean, I suppose it’s fine to have your sky green, the water lavender, and all the plant foliage bright red – if there is a reason for it. But too often it seems to be done just to make their alien planet different from Earth, and prove to the readers that yes, this IS science fiction, because, see! Odd alien planet! Not to mention having twaddle-brained females falling in love with aliens who are so alien they make me wonder if the author is promoting beastiality (sp)….I suspect they think that they are, in very politically correct fashion, making a statement about culturally and racially diverse romance being acceptable, and, in the usual fashion, taking things a dozen steps too far. Ah, well, back to the reading list….
I keep picking up free books from Kindle because they look interesting, but then other books come along that look even more interesting. It’s a good thing they aren’t paper, because if they were all stacked up next to my bed, the stack would have long since fallen over and killed me!
Come and visit Alien Resort.
The Heretic’s Apprentice (#16 of the Cadfeal Chronicals), plodding my way through Les Miserable (been working on that one for about 2 years, I have to really be in to mood for this one), Neaera: A Tale of Ancient Rome, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Waiting in the wings are The God’s Wolfling and The Chaplain’s War, plus around a dozen e-books.
Working my way through “To Slip The Surly Bonds,” an anthology of alternate history military aviation stories.
Crap. That was supposed to be a standalone comment. I gotta stop trying to use WordPress on my phone.
Molecular Quantum Mechanics? That sounds interesting in a wish-I-had-read-it (but not so much I really want to read it) way.
And disappointing to hear that Periodic Tales is fluffier than hoped.
I’ll do a review when I’ve finished reading it – maybe it’s just the way he introduced the topic.
I just wrapped up Ringo’s “River of Night”, and I will go back to reading “The Best of Jerry Pournelle.”
I am about halfway through All Things Huge and Hideous. It’s a fun read!
_Wood_ by Joachim Radkau. It is a history of wood, and of how society uses wood. Really good in an academic way, and it is partly fun reading and partly research for the next Merchant novel.
Oh, that does sound interesting. *looks at stack of books.* Um…
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