tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3884357133426747280.post1679143082724725547..comments2023-08-19T10:14:53.410-04:00Comments on Chez-Ami: On My Stack: Nighttable That IsChez Amihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834440604616829noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3884357133426747280.post-68685833360255576432009-03-07T19:25:00.000-05:002009-03-07T19:25:00.000-05:00Nice stack,girl!Nice stack,girl!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3884357133426747280.post-38908208007599091132009-03-07T14:25:00.000-05:002009-03-07T14:25:00.000-05:00Speaking of stacks of books to read, your blog has...Speaking of stacks of books to read, your blog has inspired me to count my unread volumes. I'm up to 11 now. Some of the volumes:<BR/><BR/>- The Horseman's Graves, Jacqueline Baker;<BR/>- Through Black Spruce, Joseph Boyden;<BR/>- Ten Days in the Hills, Jane Smiley;<BR/>- Searching for the Secret River, Kate Grenville;<BR/>- 2666, Roberto Bolano;<BR/>- Homecoming, Bernhard Schlink<BR/><BR/>I currently reading Without Warning, John Birmingham, the first volume of a trilogy on what would happen if the USA was wiped off the face of the earth by some mysterious energy wave. He's focussing not on what caused it, but how people react to such a disappearance. He's got multiple storylines and characters going at the same time - the General in charge of Guantanamo Navel Base (which survives); the Admiral at PACOM in Hawaii who is the senior US military leader left; a smuggler in the South Pacific; a city engineer in Seattle; an assassin in Paris, all bouncing off of each other on a timeline that starts on the first day for the first third of the book, the first week for the second, and the first month with the final third. It's not great literature, but it is fun to speculate on The End, whatever that is. When I started this, it was still -15 out there. Now, it's +7 so the need to escape to an alternate world is not so pressing. <BR/><BR/>What I wanna know is, what happens when you can download books into your reader, like music today? Will you still keep those volumes of paper surrounding you? Or will you gradually pulp them, storing the three versions of the same book that exist electronically on your home server for consultation at a later date?Leohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10339296590669071730noreply@blogger.com