Computers and Books
Jul. 7th, 2007 02:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineA bunch of minor stuff this weekend...
The iBook's in the shop for repairs. Getting by with my old Windows gear in the meantime. It works well enough for most of what I need right now, but I really want to have the iBook home again ASAP.
Stuff I've been reading lately:
- Firefly: The Official Companion, both volumes. I blame it on the charity showing of Serenity a week ago, as well as Whedon's writing for Marvel.
- Race Against Time, by Stephen Lewis. His Massey Lectures series on the Africa/HIV-AIDS disaster in progress and some of the angles being worked by Lewis and assorted other players across the planet in bringing that particular set of tangled issues to a happier conclusion.
- Star Trek: TNG - The Buried Age by Christopher L. Bennett. Cool Picard stuff set during the decade from the loss of the Stargazer to the beginning of his Enterprise-D adventures.
- Walking Shadow by Robert B. Parker. Part of the Spenser series. Not bad, although the novels always read to my eyes as quieter than the TV show that led me back 'round to the original source material.
Stuff I hope to read soon?
- The Mess They Made by Gwynne Dyer. More on the sequelae of Iraq as he's come to view it. (Sidebar question to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ruckawriter: Have you seen this one yet yourself?)
- Writing in an Age of Silence by Sara Paretsky, of V.I. Warshawski mystery novel series fame. I think this is her first foray into non-fiction in a big way, although I'm prepped to be proven wrong on that.
More later...
The iBook's in the shop for repairs. Getting by with my old Windows gear in the meantime. It works well enough for most of what I need right now, but I really want to have the iBook home again ASAP.
Stuff I've been reading lately:
- Firefly: The Official Companion, both volumes. I blame it on the charity showing of Serenity a week ago, as well as Whedon's writing for Marvel.
- Race Against Time, by Stephen Lewis. His Massey Lectures series on the Africa/HIV-AIDS disaster in progress and some of the angles being worked by Lewis and assorted other players across the planet in bringing that particular set of tangled issues to a happier conclusion.
- Star Trek: TNG - The Buried Age by Christopher L. Bennett. Cool Picard stuff set during the decade from the loss of the Stargazer to the beginning of his Enterprise-D adventures.
- Walking Shadow by Robert B. Parker. Part of the Spenser series. Not bad, although the novels always read to my eyes as quieter than the TV show that led me back 'round to the original source material.
Stuff I hope to read soon?
- The Mess They Made by Gwynne Dyer. More on the sequelae of Iraq as he's come to view it. (Sidebar question to
ruckawriter: Have you seen this one yet yourself?)- Writing in an Age of Silence by Sara Paretsky, of V.I. Warshawski mystery novel series fame. I think this is her first foray into non-fiction in a big way, although I'm prepped to be proven wrong on that.
More later...
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