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Good book scrounge
Jun. 17th, 2010 03:19 pmI found myself in the position of running out of reading matter. Yes, I have around 800 books here and I haven't read all of them, but even so. One likes a literary security blanket between oneself and nothing new to read but The West Australian newspaper or War and Peace.
Perth's central library is quite a good one, much better for genre fiction in the last few years and with a quirky mob of librarians who will be disappointed if one leaves with only one book. This time, none of my favourite authors had anything new there, so I took a chance on a new author, Jaine Fenn, with a first novel called Consorts of Heaven which is sf, what I wanted as there is so much fantasy around. I need a bit of a nuts-and-bolts fix. No other fiction appealed, so I went to the social prediction shelves. Can't recall what the library actually calls this section, but it's where economists and predictive political writers and such live. The last book I borrowed from there was by Jared Diamond, to give an example. That was Collapse. This one is called The 2030 Spike, Countdown to Global Catastrophe by Colin Mason. I like a good doomsday prediction.
Today I bolstered the supply of unreads by visiting Guildford Book Exchange, where I picked up Greg Bear's Beyond Heaven's River, by the look an even more nuts-and-boltier sf. It's about 30 years old but for me, that's when a lot of the good hard sf comes from. Mind, I probably need a physicist to explain the first page to me, which isn't really a good sign, but I'm enjoying what I can understand so far!
I'm going to wreck any serious reader cred I may have built up by admitting that I also found J.D. Robb's very latest, Fantasy in Death, almost brand new. The shop has a wonderful customer who buys new books and then brings them in after reading once, for exchange. I think I have her to thank for this much cheaper access point to the Death series. So,![[personal profile]](https://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
leecetheartist, there are now 31 Death books for you to catch up to!
That's about all I managed today. Did a bit of writing, a bit of train travel for the books and to visit the Aquarium Shop to buy my minnows some fish flakes. It's grey and coolish and I have no excuse not to go to the gym, where I'm headed when I finish this.
Perth's central library is quite a good one, much better for genre fiction in the last few years and with a quirky mob of librarians who will be disappointed if one leaves with only one book. This time, none of my favourite authors had anything new there, so I took a chance on a new author, Jaine Fenn, with a first novel called Consorts of Heaven which is sf, what I wanted as there is so much fantasy around. I need a bit of a nuts-and-bolts fix. No other fiction appealed, so I went to the social prediction shelves. Can't recall what the library actually calls this section, but it's where economists and predictive political writers and such live. The last book I borrowed from there was by Jared Diamond, to give an example. That was Collapse. This one is called The 2030 Spike, Countdown to Global Catastrophe by Colin Mason. I like a good doomsday prediction.
Today I bolstered the supply of unreads by visiting Guildford Book Exchange, where I picked up Greg Bear's Beyond Heaven's River, by the look an even more nuts-and-boltier sf. It's about 30 years old but for me, that's when a lot of the good hard sf comes from. Mind, I probably need a physicist to explain the first page to me, which isn't really a good sign, but I'm enjoying what I can understand so far!
I'm going to wreck any serious reader cred I may have built up by admitting that I also found J.D. Robb's very latest, Fantasy in Death, almost brand new. The shop has a wonderful customer who buys new books and then brings them in after reading once, for exchange. I think I have her to thank for this much cheaper access point to the Death series. So,
leecetheartist, there are now 31 Death books for you to catch up to!That's about all I managed today. Did a bit of writing, a bit of train travel for the books and to visit the Aquarium Shop to buy my minnows some fish flakes. It's grey and coolish and I have no excuse not to go to the gym, where I'm headed when I finish this.