Springfield Elementary Library

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Super Bowl time again. Next book I read is decided by the outcome of the game. This year San Francisco 49ers = Philip K. Dick - Now Wait For Last Year, and Baltimore Ravens = Orson Scott Card - Shadow of the Hegemon. It's a win-win for me. Either way I'm reading some good science fiction.

pop culture

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

by

Chuck Klosterman

A Big Hand for the Doctor

Top 3

This year's "best book I read this year" award goes to Slam by Lewis Shiner. Second place goes to Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card. 3rd place: Ringworld by Larry Niven.

Foundation

Foundation

by

Isaac Asimov 

2012

Books I read this year.

1. You Are Here - Katherine Harmon
2. The Simulacra - Philip K. Dick
3. Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
4. Crompton Divided - Robert Sheckley
5. Be More Chill - Ned Vizzini
6. How to Architect - Doug Patt
7. The Boxes - William Sleator
8. Morlock Night - K.W. Jeter
9. Tik-Tok - John Sladek
10. Crash - J.G. Ballard
11. The Iron Dream - Norman Spinrad
12. Never the Twain - Kirk Mitchell
13. I Sing the Body Electric - Ray Bradbury
14. Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card
15. Schismatrix - Bruce Sterling
16. Gather Darkness! - Fritz Leiber
17. Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks - Terrance Dicks
18. Slam - Lewis Shiner
19. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
20. The Stainless Steel Rat Returns - Harry Harrison
21. Ringworld - Larry Niven
22. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk - David Sedaris
23. True Names - Vernor Vinge

reading out loud

one minute

True Names

True Names

by

 Vernor Vinge

Sedaris on Ferguson

currently reading

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

by

David Sedaris

body language

overdue

Larry Niven