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currently reading

A Model World

and other stories

by Michael Chabon

chicks dig sci-fi

Ray Bradbury

10 future reads

I went shopping for used books today at my favorite bookstore. Seems like it's been months since the last time I went out there. I only bought nine books, but I was tempted to buy a lot more. Here's what I ended up with:

1. Victim Prime by Robert Sheckley. This has been up there for a while, but I didn't buy it because I wasn't sure it wasn't the same book as Hunter/Victim by the same author. Apparently this one is the sequel to the 10th Victim, which I've read and enjoyed.
2. Choose Your Own Adventure #21 Hyperspace by Edward Packard. I used to love these things when I was a kid. I don't remember this one, so I bought it. I was tempted to buy another one called You Are a Monster, but I resisted the urge.
3. Strange Attractors by William Sleator. I've got a lot of new ones by this author, stacking up for me to read. The description from the back cover sounds like an episode of Doctor Who. Speaking of the Doctor...
4. Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks. The number of Doctor Who books has suddenly exploded at Gardner's. Last time I was up there, there were only a couple. Now there's a couple dozen. This one's one of my favorite episodes, so it's the only one I bought.
5. Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad. Having finally finished Little Heroes after so many years, I decided to look into this author and found a surprising number on the shelf. I selected this one, having heard that it's his most famous novel.
6. A Model World and Other Stories by Michael Chabon. I really like short stories. I could have had the one he won the Pulitzer for, but they had 3 copies of that one and only one of this, so I grabbed it. The best book of the year that I've read so far was the collection of short stories by Jonathan Lethem.
7. Go Jump in the Pool! by Gordon Korman. Another Bruno and Boots book by one of my favorite young adult writers. I'm trying to re-assemble my collection of these books that I used to have when I was a kid.
8. The Shamutanti Hills by Steve Jackson.
9. Khare' - Cityport of Traps by Steve Jackson. This one and the one above are game books, similar to the Choose Your Own Adventure books. These actually require dice, pad of paper and a pencil. I know I used to have one of these in high school. I had forgotten all about it until I saw these on the shelf today.

Also I visited B&N acouple of days ago and I found a copy of Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff. I might read that one next, but if I don't I might read that collection of short stories by Chabon next...

Cassie Wright

Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk

Bargain priced $5.98 hardback from B&N.

and now for something completely different

benefits of membership

short space stories

Shards of Space

by Robert Sheckley

Finally, a new book. Don't know why it took so much time to read the last one, it wasn't very long. Probably the heat. Also my short attention span.