Book Call

[ase]

I am bored, and my personal "to read" list is packed with fiction and looks boring. So give me recommendations. I'm in the science nonfiction market, especially biology. Bonus points for things large university libraries should have on their shelves. Is there a good Linus Pauling biography? If anyone knows of a lay-ish intro to bioinformatics, please comment.

Shoutout to herewiss13: Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything is available... at the public library. It requires a little pre-planning to get there, so I'm going to wait until they call about my Fifty Degrees Below hold and pick them up at the same time. What else where you exalting? My memory is a sieve.

It's probably just as well I'm out of nonschool reading this week, what with Wednesday's physics test. (The end of Midterm Madness!) Me + novels + stress = things not getting done. Nonfiction is usually a little safer.

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[herewiss13.livejournal.com]

What else where you exalting? My memory is a sieve.

Oh, who knows? That was soooo last week. ;-)

Prompted by reading a selection of old LJ posts of my own, I did just revisit "The Tapir's Morning Bath" which describes the lives and studies of a group of scientists at the Barro Colorado Island Research Center, an island in the panama canal where some of the finest tropical biology research takes place. An informed and occasionally amusing look at field work and the people who do it...and why.

OTOH, I just re-read "The Black Gryphon" yesterday for the hell of it...so I'm a little ecclectic at the moment.

...I do think you'll like Bryson, though.

[ase.livejournal.com]

Oh, who knows? That was soooo last week. ;-)

With a little effort, you could make the eyeroll come out in the text too. *G*

OTOH, I just re-read "The Black Gryphon" yesterday for the hell of it...so I'm a little ecclectic at the moment.

I'm going to politely shudder, and then remember that I'm in Lackeyland too at the moment, so I need to not be so picky. (Because 2005fanmixes really needs a Vanyel mix. Uh-huh. Okay, so I've got one song I'm building the mix around, so it'll go away and stop bothering me.)

I've read A Walk in the Woods, so I know a little about Bryson's style. And I'd like to read I'm a Stranger Here Myself, but it's out of circ at the moment. How badly do you have to bang up a book for it to land in repairs?

[herewiss13.livejournal.com]

Well, there was also that fanfic I emailed you. I've been wondering if you'd found the time to read it and what you thought.

In re: screened comment: Not a key-word I'd have thought of (the number of false positives from herp sites boggles the mind), but I suppose a sufficiently motivated stalker could make something of it. Sorry to cause paranoia. ;-)

[ase.livejournal.com]

You're using different keywords than me. Also, probably a different grade of paranoia-filter.

[ase.livejournal.com]

I did read the fic - it's good for what it is, but it's tough to read in bed, while passing out. Printouts are too messy, and also kill ink, you know?