Firewall complications ate a post earlier today. Ah well. I'll attempt to recreate.

I put The Gumshoe, The Witch & the Virtual Corpse aside for the weekend since I didn't take it with me to Illinois (but I went back to it last night and am pretty sure I'm going to want to track down the sequel).

On the trip out I read A Wrinkle in Time and most of Connie Willis' Uncharted Territory (which I finished before I slept that night). I really wish I'd read A Wrinkle in Time about 20 years ago (when I was 8) for the first time instead of now. I think I'd have appreciated it more that way. I didn't dislike it by any means, but it didn't totally grab me. Uncharted Territory I liked quite a bit more. I've liked everything I've read by Willis so far. (Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of the Dog and Bellweather are the others).

I started William Kotzwinkle's The Hot Jazz Trio which starts out with a really warped story about Django Reinhardt, but I haven't gotten very far yet since I fell asleep for a decent chunk of the return trip and read an entire issue of the Economist. It'll become my carry-around-in-my-purse-for-times-I-want-a-book-handy book until I finish it.
posted by Kristin Buxton at 11:19 PM