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After Ruin of Angels (which, thinking back on it, had so many cool ideas - that series is the fantasy equivalent of a Gibson or Stephenson cyberpunk story), I picked up the current Library Big Read, The Darwin Affair. Murder mysteries don't typically catch my attention, but I do like historical fiction, and particularly about science history. In some ways it was like picking up the next chapter after Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle, but for the most part it focused on the inspector, the very dark villain, and the royals and other political players. Overall, it was a fun change of pace, and solidly narrated.
Right about the time I was wrapping that up, I stumbled into a conversation about Upton Sinclair and Theodore Roosevelt, and someone recommended Edmund Morris' three-volume Roosevelt biography, and particularly the audiobooks (at least for volumes 1 and 3...). So, now I'm listening to The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, which is more fascinating than I could have imagined. So far it's a very novelistic read about a larger-than-life character, but gives every indication of being well-sourced.
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