Friday Finds

Not too many books on my horizon for this week.  I’ve been making a steady dent in my TBR pile, both assigned review books from the Ledger, and books I’m reading on my own.  I finished off the books for a science fiction roundup, and a green, earth-friendly books roundup.

Some standouts:

Hope For a Heated Planet- Robert K. Musil.  Looking at climate change and green energy from a public health perspective.  His writing gets professorial and dry in spots, but if you muscle through, he has a lot of important, and inspiring info on green technology, and personal changes.

Ender In Exile- Orson Scott Card.  I’m really pleased I got to review this one.  And even more pleased that it’s a continuation in Ender’s story that I actually like.  Speaker For The Dead, Ender’s Game, and Xenocide are among my all time favorite books, but the Ender’s Shadow books with Peter and Bean were infuriatingly bad.  Such a relief to love Card’s fiction again!

Another surprisingly good one: The Illumination, by Karen Tintori and Jill Gregory.  I was dubious, because the flap copy compared it to The DaVinci Code, which I hated but couldn’t put down.  But, I found The Illumination to be well written, with decently complex characters and plenty of action.  It made me want to watch Raiders Of The Lost Ark, though, a craving I still haven’t satisfied.  Maybe this weekend after I reorganize my bookshelves.

Here is what I would like to find, on the last day of work before the weekend: The time, and the willpower, to reorganize my bookshelves, and get caught up on general tidying.  Not fun, but still needed.