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Jan. 30th, 2007 01:09 amNot that many books lately - I've mostly been reading program notes and suchlike. However, there are a few books:
The Glass House by Ashley Gardner - another in the series of murder mysteries set in Regency England, with half-pay officer Gabriel Lacey as our protagonist.
Capital Crimes by Jonathan and Faye Kellerman- two novellas, featuring characters other than their regular series. Competent police procedurals; Alex Delaware as a secondary character in one of them.
Death by Pad Thai and other Unforgettable Meals edited by Douglas Bauer - a collection of 20 essays about memorable meals, of which I thought the funniest was Michael Stern's, although the title essay, which comes last, by Steve Almond, was also quite good. Some of them are quite touching mini-memoirs.
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squirrel_magnet and I are watching season 1 of the new Battlestar Galactica on DVD, one at a time from Netflix. We just never got around to it before. So far, interesting; I don't think I'm going to buy into serious fandom - certainly not the way I did for the first couple seasons of Andromeda - but I will keep watching. OTOH, the new Harry Dresden mini-series? Ugh. Watched the first one and was dubious; watched the second one and decided not to waste any more hours of my life on that, thank you very much. I especially dislike what they've done with Bob the Skull.
And in magazines, I read a column in New Scientist a couple weeks ago that talked about new ways to divvy things up so that both parties are convinced that the division was fair; that was followed, a few nights later, by a dream in which the voices of Cheech and Chong explained the new algorithms, till they got tired and the voice of George, from "Dead Like Me," took over. (Speaking of TV fandom.) That felt like a very old-school geeky dream. All that was missing was maybe Firesign Theatre.
The Glass House by Ashley Gardner - another in the series of murder mysteries set in Regency England, with half-pay officer Gabriel Lacey as our protagonist.
Capital Crimes by Jonathan and Faye Kellerman- two novellas, featuring characters other than their regular series. Competent police procedurals; Alex Delaware as a secondary character in one of them.
Death by Pad Thai and other Unforgettable Meals edited by Douglas Bauer - a collection of 20 essays about memorable meals, of which I thought the funniest was Michael Stern's, although the title essay, which comes last, by Steve Almond, was also quite good. Some of them are quite touching mini-memoirs.
Other media:
squirrel_magnet and I are watching season 1 of the new Battlestar Galactica on DVD, one at a time from Netflix. We just never got around to it before. So far, interesting; I don't think I'm going to buy into serious fandom - certainly not the way I did for the first couple seasons of Andromeda - but I will keep watching. OTOH, the new Harry Dresden mini-series? Ugh. Watched the first one and was dubious; watched the second one and decided not to waste any more hours of my life on that, thank you very much. I especially dislike what they've done with Bob the Skull.And in magazines, I read a column in New Scientist a couple weeks ago that talked about new ways to divvy things up so that both parties are convinced that the division was fair; that was followed, a few nights later, by a dream in which the voices of Cheech and Chong explained the new algorithms, till they got tired and the voice of George, from "Dead Like Me," took over. (Speaking of TV fandom.) That felt like a very old-school geeky dream. All that was missing was maybe Firesign Theatre.
