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.

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

It was highly recommended by anathema666, but apparently the popularity is indeed growing, since I've had it on request for several weeks now, slowing working my way up the queue....

My punctuation can be a bit too far on the creative side at times, and I think it'll be an interesting read.

[zen-pop-culture.livejournal.com]

I got the book last [insert winter holiday here] and keep it by my desk at work. My mom just recently bought a copy, and she, too, loves it.

[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.. :(

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

The Barker and Lackey are both sequels to other books of theirs that I've read -- Sanctuary is book 3 of Lackey's Alta series, and the Barker is a sequel to Abarat, which I read last weekend. I'm do have a soft spot for series, because I like to immerse myself in a world, so I'm looking forward to both of them.

I added the Sarah Vowell books after a Daily Show interview, I think. My primary source of book recs is LJ, closely followed by Daily Show and Colbert Report. Darn list is growing faster than I can read books off of it.

I think Joan and Vernor have split now, but yes, they were a couple for many years. I like both their work, although I encountered Joan long before Vernor -- I just got into his stuff this past year or so, and was quite pleased.

[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!

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

I think I originally added The Know-it-all when jenx was reading it, and I added the Pirate book from your mention. Almost all the rest were from other people's "gee, I'm liking this" recs in their LJs, too. You're all bad influences!

[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.