Doug Pensinger wrote:
>
> Julia Thompson wrote:
> >
> > (No, I don't have much of a life at the moment, and it's just *now*
> > gotten to the point where I can easily hold a book as I'm
> > breastfeeding. I've finished 3 books in the past week, though!)
> >
>
> Anything good?
Well, the Gordon Dickson collection _Ends_ was good. Then again,
anything containing "Lost Dorsai" will probably be on the better end of
the good/bad spectrum.
The anthology containing 3 novellas, _Triax_, was reasonably good. I
really liked the Jack Vance one, "Freitzke's Turn". It was a detective
story, and a little weird, and some fun.
_Star Guard_ by Andre Norton had a good theme -- suppressed Terrans work
on outwitting the more powerful galactic races that are trying to keep
them in their place. That was a fairly easy read, as well, and the
chapter lengths (10-18 pages or so, which I could read at a rate just
under 2 pages per minute, on average) were good for the circumstances
under which I was reading it.
I've gone to a system for the time being where I've got one book
upstairs, for bedtime and first-thing-in-the-morning feedings (on the
middle of the night ones, I don't want to deal with turning on lights,
and I'm going to want to go back to sleep as soon as I can), and another
downstairs handy for feedings during the day. I have _The Fountains of
Paradise_ by Arthur C. Clarke upstairs (and having started it yesterday
morning, I'm about a fifth of the way into it now), and _The Colour of
Magic_ by Terry Pratchett downstairs (and I figure I'll finish that one
by sometime Thursday, if not sooner, at the rate I'm going). I'll
probably want to dig out a mystery to replace the first one of those I
finish, and the question on *that* front is, Susan Wittig Albert, M. C.
Beaton, Sharyn McCrumb or Dorothy Sayers?
Julia
