New Books

It's been awhile, I know! I haven't really had much to say lately. But let's see, I'll try to change that. I just came back from Vermont and visited my favourite bookstore there, and those who know me will know that entering a bookstore is dangerous to me. I always come out with a number of books, and this time was no different. Ok, well, I got three, and I'll be getting more later this month. And hey, guess what, I still haven't finished reading the books on my shelf! I've got a backlog of at least a year at this point. And this is why I haven't raced to pick up HP & The Deathly Hallows. Why do I keep doing this? Well, one could say I love my books a bit too much.

Books I got:

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams : I haven't read it yet in all this time and I've always been meaning to pick it up but have always been sidetracked, which happens a lot with what I want to read.

- Mercury by Ben Bova: A favourite author of mine ever since I read Mars by him, which I consider a classic in Mars fiction.

- The Zero by Jess Walter: First time I see his name, but the cover and description won me over. It seems to have gotten a lot of praise, plus it's from one of my favourite publishers. Description below.

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The Zero

Hero Cop Brian Remy wakes up after shooting himself in the head -- and so begins a harrowing tour of a city and country shuddering through the aftershocks of a devastating terrorist attack (9/11). Lurching between lucid moments and entire days when he feels he's living another's life. Remy confronts a landscape at once fractured and oddly familiar. As he tries to make sense of his new life -- chasing paper scraps for a shadowy intelligence agency -- Remy can't be certain whether the trail will lead him to an elusive terror cell... or send him circling nightmarishly back to himself.