Addendum to the last post

[tenlittlebullets]

Yet another reason I need to get my ass back in school: my book queue. Currently meandering my way through The Parisian Worlds of Frédéric Chopin (history) and Cryptonomicon (1100 pages of Neal Stephenson, which means it can't quite decide whether it's cyberpunk, military history, cryptography textbook, erotica, or just plain bizarre--as in writing RPS about Alan Turing bizarre). Recent reads have included more history (La Vie Parisienne à l'Epoque Romantique, Paris: The Secret History), literary/historical brain candy (The Shadow of the Wind, The Historian, The Thirteenth Tale), Dumas (gulped down The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, am not sure they shouldn't be counted under brain candy), sci-fi (A Fire Upon the Deep), and Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things). This would not be a particularly weird book queue--in fact, it's quite thematic--except that my brain has somehow filed all of it under "light reading." When Dumas is your beach reading, obviously that means that something is either seriously wrong or seriously right.

Next up on the list are The Man Who Laughs, The Moonstone (more Wilkie Collins since I liked Woman in White so much), Graham Robb's biography of Victor Hugo, the complete Sherlock Holmes, and A History of the French Language Through Texts.

And a shitload of Aubrey-Maturin that mmejavert left with me in the hopes that I'd join the geeky love circle finally pick up some actual light reading.

You know you need to get back to school when: Aubrey-Maturin is fulfilling the slot in your reading queue that should be reserved for junky sci-fi paperbacks or Laurell K. Hamilton novels.



Also, except for Fragile Things I don't think I've read anything under 350 or 400 pages in recent memory. Sing it with me, girls: I like big books and I cannot lie...

Comments

[brouhaha.livejournal.com]

I *love* the Graham Robb, by the way. I mean, I'm not sure I really needed to know that Victor fantasized about dead people, or called his wang his lyre. But I think there's a part of me that is glad that I do know. :D

Also, please post about The Man Who Laughs! I have always wanted to read it.

[blue-sky-day.livejournal.com]

Same here. I started, but then my copy began to fall apart.