_Wintersmith_ by Terry Pratchett.
It's a pity the Tiffany Aching can't grow much older, at least without a change
of author. She and Granny Weatherwax surf the worlds of myth delightfully_Skybreaker_ by Kenneth Oppel.
Skyships, pirates, romance, Sherpas and plucky teen protagonists. Does it get
any better?
_To the Far Blue Mountains_by
Louis L'Amour, one of the early Sackett books. Sometimes it's too easy to
forget the pleasure of a simple story, simply told.
_Anathem_ by Neal Stephenson.
What a ride--I wish it could have gone on longer. Clearly there is some of _A
Canticle for Leibowitz_ here, but the cloistered effect strikes me much more as
_The Name of the Rose_ with its long diversions into heresy and the long
theroetical discussions kinda like _Moby Dick_ and whaling.
finished listening to _History of
Christianity in the Reformation Age_ by Brad S Gregory, a Teaching Company
lecture series. Nice in that it followed Protestantism (eg, Lutherans,
Calvinists), Radical Protestantism (Anabaptists, Mennonites), and Roman
Catholic developments as a braid that wove all the strands together.
finished _Ready, Fire, Aim: The
Harry V Quadracci Story_ by John Fennell. Interesting going back and revisting
parts of one's own history. I remember all too well the FSI wars and all the
parts between 1986 and 1996. Some of Fennell's sloppy writing
finished _Benjamin Franklin, His
Autobiography_. Too bad he died before he got to writing post 1757. Still, a
lot more entertaining than I expected. It was a little odd reading a couple of
the footnotes, though.
finished three books today,
_Desolation Island_ by Patrick O'Brian, _Void Moon_ by Michael Connelly, and
_Shoot Him If He Runs_ by Stuart Woods. Note I said finished, not read...