The Moody Biologist

Thought I would review every book I managed to read over the last two months, but graduate school has consipred to keep me away from it. Will try to post atleast a couple of reviews/week from now.

Here’s what I’ve been reading -

Robert Heinlein The moon is a harsh mistress, Stranger in a strange land, Variable Star (with Spider Robinson) and Have space suit, will travel

China Mieville The City and the City and The Scar

Connie Willis The Doomsday Book and To say nothing of the dog

Ian McDonald King of the morning, Queen of day and Cyberabad Days

Cory Doctrow Down and out in the Magic Kingdom

Bruce Sterling The Caryatids

Scott Westerfeld Leviathan and Succession (The Risen Empire + The Killing of Worlds)

Adam Roberts Gradisil

Charles Stross Iron Sunrise

I suspect that I have missed some, will update when I remember. Will post atleast one review by Wednesday.

A big THANK YOU to my colleagues & friends who gifted me the coupon a few months back.

I finally got the chance to use it today, and went to the Landmark store at the Swagath Garuda Mall in Jayanagar. I remain impressed with Landmark – they really have a good collection of books. I finally got my hands on Carl Zimmer’s wonderful journey into the world of E.coli. A big bonus was finding Sergei Lukyanenko’s fantasy trilogy there – well, I got two out of the three. Have been promised that they will get the first in the set in a couple of weeks time, so am not complaining.

Red-whiskered Bulbul

a.k.a. the Red-whiskered Bulbul. One little fellow flew into my garden some time back. Really strange, as the only birds around these days seem to be crows and pigeons.

[Image from Wikimedia Commons]