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Happy Hallowe'en!
Oct. 31st, 2012 11:16 amI hope everyone came through the storm okay. DC wasn't hurt nearly as badly as New York City and Long Island. Three days without Internet was painful, though. I missed you all!
With no Metro and no Internet, I caught up with a number of books during my hurricane hiatus.
Home Improvement: The Undead Edition edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner. Fun collection of stories about vampires, werewolves, shapechangers and zombies and home improvements. "Home" is given a loose interpretation of course.
Death's Excellent Vacation edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner. Several extremely creepy stories but a very entertaining collection about sea creatures, vampires and otherwordly creatures taking time off. Some interesting notions of vacations.
Historic Congressional Cemetery by Rebecca Boggs Roberts and Sandra Schmidt. I've been by the cemetery a number of times and finally explored it. It has an interesting history. This book has a lot of photographs and stories about the various personalities. There's a whole chapter on the Lincoln assassination and related interments. Lots of information about local history too.
Just Another Judgement Day by Simon Green. Like Jim Butcher's Dresden stories but set in an otherworldly version of London. A good read.
Very New Orleans by Diana Hollingsworth Gessler. A short fun illustrated history of New Orleans, with an emphasis on food, history, and culture.
Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett. One of the best Terry Pratchett novels I've read in a long time and that's saying something.
DaVinci Decoded by Michael Gelb. The author wrote a book about thinking like DaVinci. This book is sort of a sequel and explores the more spiritual side of DaVinci's work. I'm kind of meh about it. I think he's stretching it to include so many belief systems under one person.
With no Metro and no Internet, I caught up with a number of books during my hurricane hiatus.
Home Improvement: The Undead Edition edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner. Fun collection of stories about vampires, werewolves, shapechangers and zombies and home improvements. "Home" is given a loose interpretation of course.
Death's Excellent Vacation edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner. Several extremely creepy stories but a very entertaining collection about sea creatures, vampires and otherwordly creatures taking time off. Some interesting notions of vacations.
Historic Congressional Cemetery by Rebecca Boggs Roberts and Sandra Schmidt. I've been by the cemetery a number of times and finally explored it. It has an interesting history. This book has a lot of photographs and stories about the various personalities. There's a whole chapter on the Lincoln assassination and related interments. Lots of information about local history too.
Just Another Judgement Day by Simon Green. Like Jim Butcher's Dresden stories but set in an otherworldly version of London. A good read.
Very New Orleans by Diana Hollingsworth Gessler. A short fun illustrated history of New Orleans, with an emphasis on food, history, and culture.
Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett. One of the best Terry Pratchett novels I've read in a long time and that's saying something.
DaVinci Decoded by Michael Gelb. The author wrote a book about thinking like DaVinci. This book is sort of a sequel and explores the more spiritual side of DaVinci's work. I'm kind of meh about it. I think he's stretching it to include so many belief systems under one person.
