Last night was another selection from the lovely pile of half-finished books by my bed. David Brin's Otherness, a book of short stories and essays. From what I remember they were generally pretty good, but I think he's better as a novel-writer. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the last essay is about memetics (and specific memes that seem to be spreading these days).

Today I stopped by Powells briefly to pick up Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk to read for a just-forming book group. (We'll see if this one lasts any longer than the last).

I found out tonight that Jared Diamond is going to be doing a lecture here in Portland in February. I think I'll have to get tickets.

As soon as I manage to finish Guns, Germs & Steel I think I need to finish off my backlog of Jonathan Carroll books in preparation for his reading here in a couple of weeks.
posted by Kristin Buxton at 11:53 PM