Taking a cue...
...from a friendly fellow blogger who, by the way, has shamed me with his perspicacity and timeliness, the time has come to see just how large and literate this community on the Web has become.
Accordingly, we launch "What Are You Reading?" with today's posting.
I'd like you to post your answer in the comments section below, but if that's not your style, drop me a line at ops@destinationsbooksellers.com and I will endeavor to repost it here online for everyone to ponder. If you wish, just give us an alias or a set of initials to identify yourself.
You can post briefly ("I'm reading 'Knuffle Bunny.') or at length. You can review the book or make no comments at all. You can even tell us what you wish you were reading.
Here's mine:
I'm Randy Smith, director of operations at Destinations Booksellers. I'm reading American Empire: The Victorious Opposition, by Harry Turtledove (ISBN 0345444248, $7.99).
That's a work of alternate history fiction that envisions an North American continent divided by a different outcome to several wars between the states. The U.S.A. now occupies Canada and the C.S.A. has granted statehood to Guadalajara, giving them a Pacific port. U.S. troops also occupy the Mormon territory of Deseret and continue to brutally suppress the LDS church after a treasonous insurrection. Abraham Lincoln (whose birthdate is assumed to be today), became the most despised man in America after losing the war in the 1860s, and lived long afterward, only to found the U.S. Socialist Party, the opposition party to the Democrats. In the South, the Freedom Party is ascendant and determined to reverse all gains made by the now-freed slaves.
Again, all I'm asking from you, at a minimum, is to answer this question: What are you reading?
Accordingly, we launch "What Are You Reading?" with today's posting.
I'd like you to post your answer in the comments section below, but if that's not your style, drop me a line at ops@destinationsbooksellers.com and I will endeavor to repost it here online for everyone to ponder. If you wish, just give us an alias or a set of initials to identify yourself.
You can post briefly ("I'm reading 'Knuffle Bunny.') or at length. You can review the book or make no comments at all. You can even tell us what you wish you were reading.
Here's mine:
I'm Randy Smith, director of operations at Destinations Booksellers. I'm reading American Empire: The Victorious Opposition, by Harry Turtledove (ISBN 0345444248, $7.99).
That's a work of alternate history fiction that envisions an North American continent divided by a different outcome to several wars between the states. The U.S.A. now occupies Canada and the C.S.A. has granted statehood to Guadalajara, giving them a Pacific port. U.S. troops also occupy the Mormon territory of Deseret and continue to brutally suppress the LDS church after a treasonous insurrection. Abraham Lincoln (whose birthdate is assumed to be today), became the most despised man in America after losing the war in the 1860s, and lived long afterward, only to found the U.S. Socialist Party, the opposition party to the Democrats. In the South, the Freedom Party is ascendant and determined to reverse all gains made by the now-freed slaves.
Again, all I'm asking from you, at a minimum, is to answer this question: What are you reading?
posted by All4Word at 12:22 PM
3 Comments:
I'm reading John M. Barry's "The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of
the Deadliest Plague In History."
Presently juggling Volume II of the Civil War Narrative with a return to Magic Mountain.
For February
I just finished reading "The Telling" by Ursula K. LeGuin. It was a continuation of her Hainish cycle. Before that I read "Random Acts of Badness" by Danny Bonaduce. Before that it was "War for the Oaks" by Emma Bull. I haven't decided what I will read next. I started "Memory" by Lois McMaster Bujold, but it just didn't hold my interest, though I may go back to it. Otherwise I will probably read "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" by Kurt Vonnegut or "The Child of the Holy Grail" by Rosalind Miles.
And of course I will read any magazines or newspapers that happen to be lying around.
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