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What else are you reading? May 2010
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The Complete Tales & Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh
The Productive Programmer (work research)

currently:
West of Eden
in the queue (revisiting old classics):
Bill, the Galactic Hero
The Stainless Steel Rat
plus:
The Philippine War, 1899-1902

That's just one. I usually finish a couple of books per week. I've been reading a lot more non-genre and mystery/thrillers than usual lately too.


On the science fiction front, I'm nearly done with The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch, Volume 1: Final Reckonings. I bought it with a gift certificate after Christmas, but ended up putting it aside after fifty or sixty pages. It's one of those collections that's ordered in chronological order, and Bloch wrote his earliest stories when he was still a teenager. You have to wade through 150 pages before he starts to get good.

I'm also taking my 3rd run through What's So Amazing About Grace?, in my opinion the most important book I've ever read after the Bible.
Dead-tree style: I'm reading Heart of the Game: Life, Death, and Mercy in Minor League America My oldest son is a HS baseball player with aspirations to play college and pro ball. This book has some fascinating insight into the world of minor league baseball. I'll be passing it along to him to read.
I'm working on being patient enough to wait for Audible to put out Bitter Seeds, but may pick up a hard copy.


In the last month or so I've also started reading chapter books to my almost 6 year old in the evenings before bed - we've just finished Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which he loved so we're about to go on to Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. We also have The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again and The Phantom Tollbooth waiting on the to-read pile.

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and just started Battles of the Bible: A Military History of Ancient Israel.



I'm also still listening to Sophie's World by Jostien Gaarder and read by Simon Vance. I'm almost done with it though, only 2 hours left. :)
And now I'm going to et started on Bitter Seeds! :)
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so far in May I have read...
Dune
Old Man's War
Winter's Bone
City of Night
Prodigal Son



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