Books I'm Reading - Mid-October 2005

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I've got a bunch of books I want to either finish reading or get started on seriously reading shortly:

• The Border by James Laxer. Dealing with US/Canadian relations in the border communities in particular, both the long-term history and with some detailed focus on the post-9/11/2001 period.


• The Shadow of Saganami by David Weber. Part of the "Honorverse" collection of space opera novels set in the worlds of Honor Harrington, but not focused primarily on Honor herself. Weber's been finding more and more tangential characters and ideas set in those worlds that interest him in the last couple of years. Not a bad thing, I'm thinking.


• The Last Good Day by Gail Bowen. A Joanne Kilbourn mystery. These novels are largely set in various parts of Saskatchewan, where I spent a fair chunk of my youth. Hence at least part of the series' charm for me.


• Saskatchewan: A New History by Professor Bill Waiser. One of the things I happily credit Will Ferguson for is igniting a real interest in my own country's history. Between that general interest and the focus on my old home province here, I found myself faced with an irresistable combination.


• It's the Crude, Dude! (2nd Edition) by Linda McQuaig. You may or may not agree with her thinking or her conclusions on the whole WorldWide Oil Mess and US involvement in it, but I'd recommend at least borrowing it from your local library for a week or two to mull over the contents and conclusions.

With any luck, I can get through all of these in the next couple of months. I'm half-done with The Border and The Shadow of Saganami at this writing.

Yours,

Dwight