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History - while I have a couple of books on the Plantagenets and a rather large text on Edward I, straightforward history novels tend to be a little too dry for me (although I've been eyeballing 1776 for a couple of years) so I end up reading the fictionalized accounts - Sharon K. Penman, Anya Seton, and I just recently picked up a Phillipa Gregory book that was ... okay.
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December 6th, 2007, 08:16 AM
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December 6th, 2007, 11:25 AM
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Wanted to like it...just didn't generate any serious grab... Rock on!
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December 6th, 2007, 07:41 PM
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Finished Faust - but dammit, the one I have, killer translation but omitted parts and just explained what happened for most of the second part which ticked me off... So I'm now searching for a copy of part twoo (or one and two) in a translation as good as or close to the one I had...
Started reading Dante's Divine Comedy (the brain book) Still re-reading L.K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series - up to Obsidian Butterfly (the fun read book) ** I love this author, I love this character - she's as sarcastic as I am - and could read these books over and over again ** And ever week I get my weekly issue of The Hockey News and read that... Poe's next to read on the brain book list 
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December 6th, 2007, 07:52 PM
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I finished the aforementioned Kim Stanley Robinson book. It took him THREE HUNDRED PAGES to get to the rain in the title; the rest of it read like a Nano novel with no real point to it. Argh.
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December 6th, 2007, 10:33 PM
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Has anybody noticed that when checking out the Sci-Fi/Fantasy section at whatever bookstore you shop at, that the vast majority of new fiction on the shelves is written by women? I noticed that a long time ago (maybe 5 years or so) and it still seems the same. I wonder why that would be the case, or is it just my imagination.
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December 6th, 2007, 11:09 PM
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Probably because the vast majority of new fiction on the sci-fi shelves seems to be paranormal romantic fantasy these days...
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December 7th, 2007, 04:40 PM
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Oh, an addendum regarding 40 Days of Rain - the majority of it takes place in the DC area. As much as I found the character discussions about breast milk to be a snooze, I was entertained by how often I could say "I know exactly where they're talking about" with regards to various downtown tourist locales, Metro stations/stops, Georgetown, etc.
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December 7th, 2007, 05:29 PM
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 Anyways, just finished Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. Excellent near-future fiction where computer savvy teens bring down the Department of Homeland Security...or at least attempt to. It won't be out until next year, but it'll be worth watching for. 
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