Looks like I haven’t really kicked my eBay used book habit. I was going strong there for a while but my insatiable need to finish a series once I start it pushed me into trying to round out the back half of Jordan’s wonderfully trashy soap opera series The Wheel of Time. In the process of hunting down the missing books I found myself bidding on other sets by other authors, this time four by Greg Bear.
Seriously, I have a problem. As if my “To Read” list of trashy fiction wasn’t already long enough (around 87) and my non-fiction list, which I haven’t touched in over a year, still remains with some 20 books waiting to be read. At my current rate of one book = one month Gabriella will be heading into middle school by the time I’m done. That is of course if I STOP BUYING BOOKS. Like some perverse math word problem my little habit will certainly outpace my ability to read and finish. “If Jimmy finishes one book per month but purchases four books every other month how soon until Jimmy is buried under pulp fiction?”
When Gabriella comes onto the scene this is likely only going to get worse as I try and hunt down every cool children’s book so that she can be buried just like her dad. If I’m lucky she’ll turn into a little reading junkie like us and her grandparents. If you’re going to be strung out on something literature isn’t the worst thing.
Went on a Greg Bear buying spree a year or so back. He does have some interesting ways of wrapping what sounds like reasonable genetic science into the good old fashioned end of the world sci fi spectacular.
Looking forward to giving him a shot as I like my sci-fi with a little harder edge. Niven, Clark, and Asimov are fairly solid as far as this liberal arts student can surmise. If anything they all make for decent escapism.