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What are people reading? I'm currently reading _A Killing Frost_ by Seannan McGuire (an October Daye novel). Not the best, but I'm still invested in the series, and have some hope that there's more going on that minutia of Elvish law driving the plot.

Has anyone else read _The Ministry for the Future_ by Kim Stanley Robinson? How much of the solutions for climate change actually make sense?

Also two horror novels. _The Southern Book Club Guide to Slaying Vampires_ by Grady Hendrix. Do not be deceived by the title. The book starts off funny and gets terrifying. Physical, mental, and social horror. A new idea that I haven't seen before-- a vampire who gets his victims involved in bad investments to make them financially dependent on him-- in addition to the stuff about blood and madness.

_The Hollow Places_ by T. Kingfisher. Inspired by "The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood. In which a museum of oddities becomes a problem and a solution. Very scary, but to say more would be spoilers. Suffice that there's plenty of whimsy and more than sufficient fear.

I'm still reading "The Willows". Even if you don't like horror, I can recommend the beginning as excellent nature writing. The Danube is a bigger deal than I realized. There's a reason The Blue Danube waltz has so much lift and drive.

Also, I had no idea it was that feasible to die a mere century ago in flat land at moderate temperatures just by taking the wrong branch of the multiply divided Danube. If you don't like horror, bail out when things start to get disquieting.
nancylebov: (green leaves)


The client owns an extensive collection of books on the subject of Islamic history, so he requested that we create this building with the maximum capacity for its storage and exhibition.

It's carefully designed to be earthquake-proof, but now that the subject has come up I wonder if it would be good to have a little something to restrain the books from falling out of the shelves if the building is shaken.

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