Status report

This post is actually my answer to Bibliobibuli’s question on her blog: What are YOU reading? Any good?

For the first time in ages, I’m only reading one book at the moment: To Fear a Painted Devil, by Ruth Rendell. Started it last night.

I’ve just finished Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge. ZOMG!!1 (I’d like to write a better review but my head is still spinning from all the ideas. Wearable tech, libraries without books, mysterious rabbits, Dangerous Knowledge, Librarian Militants. I heart Vernor Vinge.)

Also Stasiland by Anna Funder. A very readable book, about the secret police in the East German Communist regime and their impact on East German society. People do horrible things to each other.

I would be reading Wikinomics: how mass collaboration changes everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, but it’s a library book, and someone else wants it. I ordered this for the collection, why can’t I hang on to it a bit longer? (I’ve only had it for a couple of months…)

I also want to start reading Situated learning: legitimate peripheral participation by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger. I have some ideas for an article I’m writing with the LINT folks, and want to see if this book supports them.

And I really ought to stop gazing at the stacks in my room and start reading:
The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Life: A user’s manual by Georges Perec
Panggil Aku Kartini Saja [Just call me Kartini] by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
And then there’s all the books I noted in that reading challenge I wrote about in January.
And a small list of journal articles I’ve come across.

It occurs to me that this list is never going to get smaller, mainly because I buy so many books. I think I buy at least one book a week, and some weeks it’s more. (Last week? Four books. Just ordered four books, from Amazon. Sigh.) And then there’s all the library books. I could probably stop buying books today and never run out of things to read.