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This week's books
Jun. 10th, 2013 01:50 pmFor now, I'm staying with Goodreads as my tracker. I've gotten some extremely good books recs from the people I follow there and here. If Amazon gets obtrusive, I can rethink it later.
At Home by Bill Bryson. I generally love his writing but this book was a hard slog for me. The concept was great but the carryout was so uneven. The concept was to look at history by analyzing a house room by room. If he had followed through on that, it would have been good. But he wandered all over the map. Too bad. The scattershot approach made the book very hard to read.
In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker. First book in a series and I will definitely read more. It's an original take on time travel and looting the past. Plants we consider ordinary are rare and important in the future, for example. There are also some interesting ideas on manipulating the past. I will be interested to see how she handles everything in future books.
At Home by Bill Bryson. I generally love his writing but this book was a hard slog for me. The concept was great but the carryout was so uneven. The concept was to look at history by analyzing a house room by room. If he had followed through on that, it would have been good. But he wandered all over the map. Too bad. The scattershot approach made the book very hard to read.
In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker. First book in a series and I will definitely read more. It's an original take on time travel and looting the past. Plants we consider ordinary are rare and important in the future, for example. There are also some interesting ideas on manipulating the past. I will be interested to see how she handles everything in future books.
