Julia Thompson wrote:
>
> 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?
I finished the Pratchett last night, and settled on a Sharyn McCrumb for
the current downstairs book.
The Clarke is really good so far. I think it would be of interest to
anyone who enjoyed some of the engineering in Kim Stanley Robinson's
Mars trilogy. Plus, it's Clarke! :)
Julia
