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Books read February
There's not much but I decided to use this journal as an actual diary and record some stuff I usually do. I remember wailing to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
girliejones when we met on the 24th that I had nothing (new) to read. Went to the library two days later and borrowed Kage Baker's Children of the Company. Really didn't think that much of it but it was readable and I hadn't read it before, so. Got rid of that by the next day so went back for more.
I picked up a couple of "medical thrillers" - yes, if I can't watch it on tv I'll read about it. One was reasonable, written by a medical student at Stanford. I wonder how he had time! This was Isolation Ward by Joshua Spanogle. I beg its pardon, it has "medical suspense" on the cover in green glowing letters. I didn't really get far enough into Carriers to include it or name its nondescript author on a reading list. More bodies, more descriptions!
What, No Baby? is a somewhat polemic little work by Leslie Cannold, who's got psych and medical degrees and works as a researcher for The Centre for Applied Psychology and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. Despite this, it's a Freo Arts Centre Press book, which gives one some idea about it. Despite having no interest in having children myself, I am interested to know society's views. This book claims that Australian society is structured against mothering and the cover features the words under the title, "Why women are losing the freedom to mother and how they can get it back." I'm still reading this one around other books because it is rather heavy going.
Variable Star was more fun to read. Science fiction, space opera. It bears the names of both Robert Heinlein and Spider Robinson on the cover and proved to be one of that dreaded category, the unfinished novel then finished by somebody else.
Robinson was honest about it; he described just what the notes and information had been and quoted the publisher's direction that he was to write the "best Spider Robinson novel" that he could and not worry about what Heinlein would have written had he been able to. Well, he could have if he'd wanted; this thing apparently sat in his drawer for decades. Would it have been a true "trunk" novel? I don't know, it was intriguing, though some of the scenes were typically Robinson; very dramatic but requiring several read-throughs to be sure of what he was actually declaiming. Like the ending... But the scenes of what happens when you sneeze around goats (especially in low gravity) were absolutely classic and bore the marks of true life experience, probably without the low gravity but just as painful.
The last book I've read properly belongs in March, the only new one so far for that month and this is The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith. It's just a beautiful read, as always. I knowstephen_dedman has written a review of it and when I know when and where it's published, I'll pass the information on.
Does anyone have any literary recommendations? Preferably something I can borrow. I'm paying for trip-related things at the moment and also for Zach's trip to the vet yesterday with a chest infection, so seriously trying not to spend! Zach is much better now, though I don't think he was amused by the rectal thermometer. The vet said, "He might still be depressed for the rest of today." No kidding.
girliejones when we met on the 24th that I had nothing (new) to read. Went to the library two days later and borrowed Kage Baker's Children of the Company. Really didn't think that much of it but it was readable and I hadn't read it before, so. Got rid of that by the next day so went back for more. I picked up a couple of "medical thrillers" - yes, if I can't watch it on tv I'll read about it. One was reasonable, written by a medical student at Stanford. I wonder how he had time! This was Isolation Ward by Joshua Spanogle. I beg its pardon, it has "medical suspense" on the cover in green glowing letters. I didn't really get far enough into Carriers to include it or name its nondescript author on a reading list. More bodies, more descriptions!
What, No Baby? is a somewhat polemic little work by Leslie Cannold, who's got psych and medical degrees and works as a researcher for The Centre for Applied Psychology and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. Despite this, it's a Freo Arts Centre Press book, which gives one some idea about it. Despite having no interest in having children myself, I am interested to know society's views. This book claims that Australian society is structured against mothering and the cover features the words under the title, "Why women are losing the freedom to mother and how they can get it back." I'm still reading this one around other books because it is rather heavy going.
Variable Star was more fun to read. Science fiction, space opera. It bears the names of both Robert Heinlein and Spider Robinson on the cover and proved to be one of that dreaded category, the unfinished novel then finished by somebody else.
Robinson was honest about it; he described just what the notes and information had been and quoted the publisher's direction that he was to write the "best Spider Robinson novel" that he could and not worry about what Heinlein would have written had he been able to. Well, he could have if he'd wanted; this thing apparently sat in his drawer for decades. Would it have been a true "trunk" novel? I don't know, it was intriguing, though some of the scenes were typically Robinson; very dramatic but requiring several read-throughs to be sure of what he was actually declaiming. Like the ending... But the scenes of what happens when you sneeze around goats (especially in low gravity) were absolutely classic and bore the marks of true life experience, probably without the low gravity but just as painful.
The last book I've read properly belongs in March, the only new one so far for that month and this is The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith. It's just a beautiful read, as always. I know
stephen_dedman has written a review of it and when I know when and where it's published, I'll pass the information on.Does anyone have any literary recommendations? Preferably something I can borrow. I'm paying for trip-related things at the moment and also for Zach's trip to the vet yesterday with a chest infection, so seriously trying not to spend! Zach is much better now, though I don't think he was amused by the rectal thermometer. The vet said, "He might still be depressed for the rest of today." No kidding.
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