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February 8, 2010
Recent Reads
Finally got to the top of the hold queue for Boneshaker, which I found enjoyable, though less visually evocative than I had hoped. The world and characters were interesting, and the story was enough to move things along, but it felt like a bit of missed potential.
I ended up only getting about 2/3 through The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science before having to return it to the library. I wanted very much to love this book, but when compared to works like Longitude, or Stiff it just didn't quite hold up to expectations. As a series of semi-connected essays, those I read were interesting, but I never really "got" or connected with Holmes' thesis.
Most recently, I returned The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart and haven't put it back on my hold/buy list. The first few chapters weren't particularly engaging, but that could have been more about other stuff going on rather than the merits of the work, so I may give this one another shot.
Posted by dberger at February 8, 2010 10:01 PM