What have you recently finished reading?
Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise by Steve Jones, which I still need to review. Interesting, and a better read than his update of The Origin of Species. Before that, Sarah Canary (Karen Joy Fowler), about which I still feel pretty ambivalent.
What are you currently reading?
I’m working hardest on my stack of books from the library, before I go away for a few weeks, so I’m nearly finished with Y: The Descent of Men (Steve Jones), which is definitely more entertaining than either of the other books of his I’ve already mentioned. I’ve also got This Is the Way The World Ends (James Morrow) on the go, because it fits both my finish-library-books bet and my SF Masterworks challenge; I’m really enjoying it, actually, although I thought from reading the back that it might be too absurd for me. I’ve juuuust started Windhaven (George R.R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle), which is interesting but not blowing me away so far.
ARC-wise, I’ve got the longer books I’ve mentioned before in hand, plus Gutenberg’s Apprentice (Alix Christie), since I now have one of the limited edition Bookbridgr copies.
What will you read next?
I’ll go back on the attack with Elantris (Brandon Sanderson) and Monster of God (David Quammen), I think. They’re both library books. After that, probably Steve Jones’ Darwin’s Island, which is actually not about Galapagos but about the UK.
I see you’re ODing on Steve Jones, not an author I’ve read yet though I felt a draw to ‘Y, the Descent of Man’ in a local bookshop.
Yeah, a bunch of my library reservations came in at once, and it’s on the library ticket I’m trying to clear, so. Lots and lots of Steve Jones! My review of that one should be up later today, maybe tomorrow!
Yay!
Nice! Let me know how Elantris goes.. Right now I’m reading Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson and its kind of amazing XD
I’m planning to read all his Cosmere books (eventually)…
I’ve been enjoying it so far, just suffering book overdose, haha.