Books

I keep meaning to put updates on the blog entries from time to time, relating what I am reading at the moment, and it never quite comes together. I read all kinds of things, so I will tell you some of my most recent and current books, good and bad. In order from most recent to least:

1. Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife, one of the jillion books I recently discovered that are about Pride and Prejudice, one of my favorite books. I don't recommend it, it's just a bodice ripper with familiar names, but I have been sucked in (no giggles please) and I can't help but finish it.
2. The Other Side of the Story, by Marian Keyes. It's a good summer reader, all about infidelity from the perspective of three women involved in adulterous relationships (one is dating married man, one is shacked up with her ex-best friends ex-boyfriend, one's father took off to live with his much younger girlfriend). Interesting and fun.
3. The seven secrets to how to think like a rocket scientist. This is written by a rocket scientist, so he should know, but its written for laypersons, and really quite readable. I finished the whole thing within a 3 hour flight, and thought it was very interesting.
4. Sleeping with the Enemy, how Washington Sold its soul for Saudi crude. This is pretty depressing, in a way, and really angering in another. Before you think it's a liberal rant, it was recommended to me by my father (who talks about "his buddy" Rush) and written by an ex-CIA op. Some of the stories I had heard about, some were new and really shocking.
5. Corelli's Mandolin. What a lovely book, bittersweet in the end. I have no idea how the movie could have been as bad as I have heard, with such an amazing story, but I am not tempted to see Nicholas Cage as Corelli.
6. The Fourth Bear, by Jasper Fforde. Fforde went from writing strange books about literature to writing strange books about children's literature, or rather, about childrens rhymes. Jack Spratt is a detective, with his assistant Mary Mary. This is the second book in the series, they are both quite good, but I understand he is going back to writing about Thursday Next for awhile, which I thought had been pretty well played out.

And aside from rereading a few books (like Pride & Prejudice, and Deus Irae) that about covers March. Up next, a non-fic about Autism. Just curious.