Stop me before I request again!

[moominmuppet]

I've finished up the last of the library books I had out, and only one new one has come in yet. I just meant to reorganize my spreadsheet, really. But then I started checking what was available, and once I saw it was, I couldn't just not request it right that moment, could I? Could I?

Currently on order:

The magicians of Caprona, Diana Wynne Jones
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Lynne Truss
Days of Magic Nights of War, Clive Barker
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists : A Novel, Gideon Defoe
The Third Chimpanzee, Jared Diamond
On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt
The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell
Assassination Vacation, Sarah Vowell
The Know-It-All : One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, A. J. Jacobs
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Cory Doctorow
Fuzzy Dice, Paul Di Filippo
The Last Witchfinder, James Morrow
Lies My Teacher Taught Me, James Loewen
Sanctuary, Mercedes Lackey

Also, I went ahead and ordered Dark of the Moon and Seeker's Mask used, since CPL doesn't have them.

Just finished up Singer from the Sea, by Tepper. I can't say it was one of my favorites of hers, really. Entertaining, but a bit too much deus ex machina even for my tastes (and since I'm a sucker for a happy ending, I'm generally pretty tolerant of how it gets accomplished). Currently reading Psion by Joan D. Vinge. I'm not sure if I'd just started it at some point in the past, or if I'll get all the way through and realize that I've read it before. I know I've owned the book for years and years, though, so "before" could be when I was 12.

Comments

[zen-pop-culture.livejournal.com]

I LOVE EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES. It's an editorial orgasm. And it seems to be increasing in popularity, which is good.

[blackbyrd2.livejournal.com]

Clive Barker ought to be good, ditto Mercedes Lackey. Have read other things by them, but not these.
Sarah Vowell looks to be great (and I lurved her as Violet in The Incredibles) as I hear it.
Have also heard great things about Eats, Shoots and Leaves.
I think Joan Vinge is wife to Verner Vinge, author of True Names and ther Dangers, which was awesome, IMO. Heard good things about her work as well.

I WISH I had time to read.. :(

[aiela.livejournal.com]

Dave's been happy with Sarah Vowell, kitanzi was enjoying The Know It All last I heard, and Lies My Teacher Told Me is interesting, although a slow read because there's a lot of information in there. The Pirates! books are great fun. Cory Doctorow is highly recommended by several local folks 'round these parts, although I haven't read any of it myself.

Books books books!

Happy Reading!

[calebbullen.livejournal.com]

It's funny but you left off the one Sarah Vowell book I know, Take the Canolli. She's excellent! You also might like her fellow This American Life contributor, David Rakoff. If there's a funnier Gay Jewish Canadian New Yorker, I don't know who it would be.