Books Read in 2010

[rolanni]

The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson

Sunshine, Robin McKinley
Bone Crossed, Patricia Briggs
‘Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
The Ten-Cent Plague,  David Hajdu
Bridge of Birds, Barry Hughart

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[6-penny.livejournal.com]

I've been rationing myself on the short stories posted on http://www.janetkagan.com/index.htm

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

Barry Hughart is quite good. There are two other stories in that setting: Eight Skilled Gentlemen and Story of the Stone. I recommend them.

A recommendation that Theo would approve!

[(Anonymous)]

Here's a recommendation, from something I saw on the AP… Theo would approve!

LONDON — A book charting the frontier between handicrafts and geometry on Friday won Britain's quirkiest literary award, the Diagram Prize for year's oddest book title.

"Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes" by mathematician Daina Taimina beat runners-up "What Kind of Bean is This Chihuahua?" and "Collectible Spoons of the Third Reich."

Prize overseer Horace Bent said "the public proclivity towards non-Euclidian needlework" proved too strong for the competition.

-Mary Matthesen

crochet and geometry

[(Anonymous)]

Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes by mathmatician Daina Taimina just won an award in Britain for year's oddest book title. It is a non-fiction book, but wondered if you had read it. Truth is stranger than fiction, perhaps.
Can't find my icon so I am anonymous. Kathy F.

Re: crochet and geometry

[jane-barfly.livejournal.com]

Daina Taimina has a wonderful TED lecture that you can find. Prepare to lose some time in fascination.
(Okay, that's true of a lot of TED lectures.)