Booklog
Books I have recently read or at least started to read! My stash bin at work is kind of excessively full, so I've been on a sort of binge the last week or so in an effort to clear it out.
Generation Kill by Evan Wright
Okay, so I work in the History and Military History sections at work right now. There are a lot of books about the situation in Iraq and I kind of felt like maybe I should actually read one of them. Despite the extremely dramatic title and subtitle, this isn't a particularly sensationalist piece of work and from where I stand it really seemed quite respectful. It's not an easy book to read (maybe because it's about, a-duh, war), and it was possibly made harder by the fact that I read the entire thing on Thursday all in one go.
The Introvert Advantage by Marti Olsen Laney, Psy. D.
HAY INTROVERTS UR ALRIGHT is basically the theme of this book. It's kind of ridiculously cheerleady at times because the author is kind of a defensive introvert herself, but I can imagine that people less left-brained than me wouldn't mind. She totally owns up to the fact that she's being that way, too, which helps, and it's got some interesting information.
So apparently things I've been thinking were just WEIRD ME are caused by the neurological pathways that introverts use differently than extroverts! We're literally hardwired completely differently! I feel slightly better about being nuts now!
Blood Price by Tanya Huff
I am not sure how I feel about this book. I kind of love that it's set in Toronto because it's always nice to get away from the midwest and east coast USA for urban fantasy, and I like Victoria kind of a lot. Not so sure about Henry. There are a lot of things in the book I liked, I'm just still not sure how I feel about it as a whole.
Clearly this means I must read four or five more books in the series to figure it out.
The Last Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason
This book is BORING. Just. FYI. BORING. People who decide they want to write about this time period seem to have a thing about their writing style. I don't know. You wouldn't think you could make a dude who did all this stuff DULL but whatever.
I plan to start this tomorrow! It looks nifty!
Generation Kill by Evan Wright
Okay, so I work in the History and Military History sections at work right now. There are a lot of books about the situation in Iraq and I kind of felt like maybe I should actually read one of them. Despite the extremely dramatic title and subtitle, this isn't a particularly sensationalist piece of work and from where I stand it really seemed quite respectful. It's not an easy book to read (maybe because it's about, a-duh, war), and it was possibly made harder by the fact that I read the entire thing on Thursday all in one go.
The Introvert Advantage by Marti Olsen Laney, Psy. D.
HAY INTROVERTS UR ALRIGHT is basically the theme of this book. It's kind of ridiculously cheerleady at times because the author is kind of a defensive introvert herself, but I can imagine that people less left-brained than me wouldn't mind. She totally owns up to the fact that she's being that way, too, which helps, and it's got some interesting information.
So apparently things I've been thinking were just WEIRD ME are caused by the neurological pathways that introverts use differently than extroverts! We're literally hardwired completely differently! I feel slightly better about being nuts now!
Blood Price by Tanya Huff
I am not sure how I feel about this book. I kind of love that it's set in Toronto because it's always nice to get away from the midwest and east coast USA for urban fantasy, and I like Victoria kind of a lot. Not so sure about Henry. There are a lot of things in the book I liked, I'm just still not sure how I feel about it as a whole.
Clearly this means I must read four or five more books in the series to figure it out.
The Last Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason
This book is BORING. Just. FYI. BORING. People who decide they want to write about this time period seem to have a thing about their writing style. I don't know. You wouldn't think you could make a dude who did all this stuff DULL but whatever.
I plan to start this tomorrow! It looks nifty!