Here are the books I’ve read last month. Not as many as usual, as I struggled with a couple of books. Red Planet — Robert A. Heinlein Another Heinlein juvenile, showing how one boy and his Martian pet cause the planet to succesfully rebel against an ever oppressive Earth. Goths and Romans 332-489 — Peter […]
Here are the books I’ve read last month. Have His Carcase — Dorothy L. Sayers The second Harriet Vane novel, which starts when she almost literally stumbles about a body on the beach, its throat cut by a razor. Vane and Wimsey team up to solve the case and see whether it was murder or […]
It’s August 1st, so time for a new list of books read. Lots of history at the start of the month, as I had just bought a pile of them in June. Also a lot of Sayers novels, as I’m in the process of rereading them in order. Little in the way of science fiction […]
Yup, you guessed it: time for another list of books read. We’re now exactly six months into 2008 and I’ve read exactly seventyfive books. Fortysix of these were fiction (of which thirtyone were science fiction even), twentynine non-fiction, with history taking hte lion’s share of that with nine books. Of last month’s crop, I was […]
Yup, you guessed it: time for another list of books read. Dark Side of Democracy — Michael Mann S. says this made me depressive and angry, but it was worth it. Mann attempts to find out how genocide happens, what pushes a country from largely ordinary racial/ethnical tension into aggressive ethnical cleansing and mass murder. […]