As you can see I wrote a review of Follies of the Wise by Frederick Crews. This book took me a pretty long time to read. Not because it was boring. Quite the contrary. It was filled with a lot of information and it took time to give it a deep reading in order not to miss all the information contained in the selection of essays.
I have also finished two books by Carl Zimmer. Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain–and How it Changed the World and Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life. I will be working on the review of Microcosm in the next few days. As for Soul Made Flesh, I am going to wait until I finish The Fellowship: Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the Story of a Scentific Revolution by John Gribbin since both books take on the same subject but from different angles. That gives me an opportunity to compare both books. That review shoudl be coming shortly after I finish reading The Fellowship.
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. I will be working on the review of Microcosm in the next few days. As for Soul Made Flesh, I am going to wait until I finish 
by John Gribbin since both books take on the same subject but from different angles. That gives me an opportunity to compare both books. That review shoudl be coming shortly after I finish reading The Fellowship.A few weeks back I posted a question (Horror? Weird? Labels=Limits?) on my journal about the label “horror” as a genre and how it is making the genre stagnate. I received a excellent responses which I am going to incorporate into a quick essay about the genre label and why it is a confining more so than we may think. I started writing the essay and after rethinking it a bit and going over the responses I changed my position slightly. Not a complete one hundred and eighty degree turn but just ever so slightly.
I would also like to get more featured volumes up. Basically taking a volume from my library, photographing it and writing a short piece about it. I hope to have the time this coming winter to do a few. I would hope it would give some insight as to what I collect and why as well as giving a peek at some fine books (at least by my estimation.)
I have set a goal for myself. On my nightstand I have a pile of books. They are in the drawers and on the top of the nightstand. I have made it my goal to finish all of them, in a reasonable time, before I pull any other books off my shelves. With that in mind I will be putting up some reviews over the nex couple of months within a wide range of nonfiction and fiction genres. I’ll update the Currently Reading list at my Good Reads site when I get back home. I know there are a few I haven’t listed there yet.
I hope this interests anyone reading and I hope you come back or snag my RSS feed to keep up with what I have coming through the queue.
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on Sep 12th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
[...] I posted that I was going to be tackling all my books that have accumulated on my nightstand before … This is one of those books. I had started reading it last year when I purchased it then put it down as I added more new books to my nightstand. Last night, in order to take a break from the dense narrative of Neal Stephenson, I opened one of the drawers and this book was sitting on top of the pile. So I picked it up and noticed that I wasn’t that far from finishing it. So I opened to my book mark and started reading. [...]