Library report

Current read-aloud project is a re-read of Manning Coles' 1945 espionage thriller, Green Hazard. One of my all-time favorite books that M is just discovering. [We read A Toast to Tomorrow aloud back in '86, but it's. y'know, been a bit.]

I got Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Lost Souls from the library last week for myself, but I have only managed the first few pages. It's evidently part of a series of four, so I may want to go back to the beginning. While I'm not anal about story order, M and I found that we liked the "Odd Thomas" series read sequentially.

Tuesday library list

Still plowing through The Historian in our read-aloud hour in the evening.

Other than that, I am rereading (and I still don't much like) Brian Morgan's Strange Child of Chaos, a biography of Norman Treigle. I don't think it's the author's fault. I was, and still am, 35 years after his death, a huge, huge fan. I don't think this book could satisfy me unless it were cloyingly teh awesum sauce. Srsly.

Buncha stuff

Reading highlights this past week:
Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons, by George Pendle

and Mux's and my current read-aloud project, The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova

Stuff to anticipate tonight: Cm rerun, turkey and dressing, starting a new series with the New Testament course.

typo/spell-check fail du jour: "Madison, Jefferson, and Adams were the principal farmers of the Constitution."

Whew. That sort of catches me up.

nothing to report

Embarrassing. I did not read a single book this week. Between critical research stuff, file reorganization, and beating the crap out of my operating system, there wasn't time for much more than perusing the Funny Times when I was in the john.

Tuesday book notes

I've been immersed in a DVD series of lectures on the history of the New Testament, so not as much reading as usual.

Only new book I have read this week was Dead in the Family, by Charlaine Harris.

If it's possible for printed media to "jump the shark," then I believe Ms Harris took that leap with the volume that preceded this, Dead and Gone.

No spoilers here. Just it's no longer as witty and insightful as it had been. I don't even like Sookie as much as I used to. Just too many horrible things happening out of pure meanness and spite.

And I get all the meanness and spite I can handle IRL.

Most recent reads, 11 May 2010

Over the past week

Guinn, Jeff
Go Down Together, the true and untold story of Bonnie and Clyde

Ehrman, Bart
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and why we don't know about them)

Beiler, Jonas, with Shawn Smucker
Think No Evil: Inside the story of the Amish schoolhouse shooting and beyond ...