Vacation is more or less the only time I can read books. My Kindle 2 made it easy to carry them around and read them on planes, trains and metro during my last vacations in France:
- Absinthe & Flamethrowers: Projects and Ruminations on the Art of Living Dangerously (William Gurstelle):
A short and interesting book, but I would not put drinking absinthe in the list of dangerous things – well at least in my opinion it is way less dangerous than eating fast food regularly. I will probably write a bit more about the ideas on this book, as there is some that are related to something I will spend most of my time for the next year.
- Daemon (Daniel Suarez):
An excellent novel that is, a the difference of most novels about technology, completely realistic. I cannot wait for the sequel.
- Thomas Jefferson (R. B. Bernstein):
Thomas Jefferson is probably, with Benjamin Franklin, the most interesting of the Founder Fathers. This biography was so interesting that I found it way too short and I will try to find something that would go deeper in the life of this extraordinary person.
- Declare (Tim Powers):
There is no such thing as a bad Tim Powers book and there is no such thing as an easy to read Tim Powers book. My favorite is still Last Call but Declare was really captivating after I managed to read pass the first one hundred pages.
- Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon (Chuck Palahniuk):
Well, I read everything from Palahniuk (*cough* Haunted *cough*), so I had to read this one, even if it is not a novel but a travel guide. As always, extremely entertaining.