RECENT READING: The Five Book Catch-Up
I am probably offline when you read this. Of late, I’ve been programming Freedom to block my internet access for eight or nine hours a day. No social media, no checking sales numbers, no logging into this blog to check stats. The net result is a lot of writing, and a whole lot of reading. Right now, this series is running several books behind my actual reading. I’m starting to forget things and get the order all mixed up in my head. So here we go, a quick-and-dirty catch-up of books I heartily recommend. Go and read Mary Robinette Kowal’s THE CALCULATING STARS. Obviously, you don’t need me to tell you this, given that it just won a Hugo and seems poised to win all the other awards in short order. Short version: It’s great. It’s really, really great. I gave a copy to my partner, and it largely sparked off a week of good book noises and momentary pauses
