Holiday reading
Lindsey Davis - Ode To A Banker
The 12th (!) in the Roman
detective series; good, but not as satisfying as previous episodes.
Liz Williams - Empire of Bones
Oh wow, this is a nice treat, a
new, and original, SF author. This is a first contact tale, where a caste driven
empire decides that an Untouchable in a future India is their preferred contact.
Too complex to summarise, but very, very enjoyable. One to review later.
Jonathan Lethem - three
titles
I remember
Gun, With Occasional
Music
with fondness, but wondered if he'd stopped
writing as he seems to have vanished from the SF shelves... Annoyingly, because
he's good, Lethem is shelved under general fiction. I tore through his uneven
collection The Wall of the Sky, the Wall
of the Eye, but was most impressed by two of
his novels, Girl in
Landscape, and
As She Climbed Across The
Table. The former is a haunting
Bradbury-meets-Nabokov tale, while the later is terribly sad story of your basic
love triangle - man, woman, baby universe. By far and away some of the best
writing I've read in a long time. See review later, as I feel I must stand on a
chair and shout for attention, then demand that everyone run out and buy some of
Lethem's work.
Anthony
Bourdain - A Cook's Tour
Non-fiction; sequel to
Kitchen
Confidential. A chef, disillusioned with
cooking under pressure and amazed by the success of his first book, decides to
milk his fame and travel around the world in search of the perfect meal. I'm
tempted to try his fiction, as he is as deft a writer as many better known
authors.
Posted: Thu - July 10, 2003 at 12:37 AM