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Recently completed 4 books:
Firstly, the 3 books in the "A J Jacobs Omnibus". Mr Jacobs, for anyone not familiar with him, is an "experimental author", who takes on projects and writes about his experiences with them in a very amusing manner. I highly recommend his books. The three books in the omnibus are:
The Know-It-All, in which he reads the whole of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica".
The Year of Living Biblically in which Mr Jacobs, who is a non-observant Jew, attempts to live for a year following all the Bible's precepts on how Jews should live.
My Experimental Life, in which Mr Jacobs undertakes a series of shorter, month-long, experiments, such at outsourcing his entire life to India, trying to get an online date for his children's nanny, and passing himself off as a film star.
All very highly recommended!
The most recent book, for a complete change, was "Gust Front", by John Ringo, which I bought from Baen in April 2001. The second book in his "Posleen War" series, and excellent military SF. It's a direct sequel to the first book, "A Hymn Before Battle", so don't read it in isolation. Again, highly recommended: this was the time when Mr Ringo wrote good military SF, as opposed to his more recent books, which are unpleasantly right-wing political diatribes (to my eyes - I'm sure they appeal to some people).
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