bunrab | Current reading

Just finished Subject to Debate collection of Katha Pollitt's columns, and starting in on Virginity or Death!, her most recent collection.

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	Delete All Suspects (Turing Hopper Mysteries (Hardcover)) Donna Andrews what are you reading?.
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Finished Delete All Suspects by Donna Andrews, 4th in a series of what you might call "techie cozy" style - our detective is an AI living in a computer in a university in the Washington DC area, whose friends include various librarians - whom she is gradually turning into PIs - and the one other sentient AI in the library, a chess expert. (There are other AIs there, but as far as Turing knows, she and KingFischer are the only sentient ones.) In this volume, Turing decides she wants a pet cat. To my taste, the existence of a shadowy super-villain of incredible intelligence is a weakness - I prefer more realistic villains - but it's not a flaw that stops me from reading the series.

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	A Heckuva Job: More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme Calvin Trillin what are you reading?.
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And Calvin Trillin's latest collection of his verses from The Nation - if you like Trillin, and/or agree with The Nation's politics, and/or want to try humorous verse a la Ogden Nash but with a political twist, this would be your cup of tea as well as mine.