50bookchallenge, 15000pages
Dec. 14th, 2009 09:29 amBook #89 -- Richard Castle, Heat Wave (Nikki Heat)
, 198 pages.
Yup, *that* Richard Castle. This is the tie-in book to the show Castle. It's actually a pretty decent mystery, although if Richard Castle were a real person I'd tell him he needs to run his Jameson Rook character through a Gary Stu detector. As it is, the book reads like an extra-long episode of Castle, and I have no problem with that at all :)
Book #90 -- Francesca Lia Block, The Waters & the Wild
, 111 pages.
This one packs a punch -- it's short and a quick read, but despite that, it's well-written and has hidden depths. I think anyone who has been a misfit teen will identify strongly with this book, and the supernatural element only serves to enhance this connection, at least for me.
Book #91 -- Gerald S. Hawkins, Stonehenge Decoded
, 190 pages.
This is actually a fascinating book, published in 1966, interpreting Stonehenge as an astronomic calendar and calculator for predicting events like solar and lunar eclipses. Sadly, many of Hawkins theories relied on assumptions of building schedules that have been since been proven false. The fact that Hawkins' theory works in the abstract is a victory for chaos theoreticians everywhere . . . score one for coincidence.
Progress toward goals: 348/365 = 95.3%
Books: 91/100 = 91.0%
Pages: 22812/25000 = 91.2%
2009 Book List
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Yup, *that* Richard Castle. This is the tie-in book to the show Castle. It's actually a pretty decent mystery, although if Richard Castle were a real person I'd tell him he needs to run his Jameson Rook character through a Gary Stu detector. As it is, the book reads like an extra-long episode of Castle, and I have no problem with that at all :)
Book #90 -- Francesca Lia Block, The Waters & the Wild
This one packs a punch -- it's short and a quick read, but despite that, it's well-written and has hidden depths. I think anyone who has been a misfit teen will identify strongly with this book, and the supernatural element only serves to enhance this connection, at least for me.
Book #91 -- Gerald S. Hawkins, Stonehenge Decoded
This is actually a fascinating book, published in 1966, interpreting Stonehenge as an astronomic calendar and calculator for predicting events like solar and lunar eclipses. Sadly, many of Hawkins theories relied on assumptions of building schedules that have been since been proven false. The fact that Hawkins' theory works in the abstract is a victory for chaos theoreticians everywhere . . . score one for coincidence.
Progress toward goals: 348/365 = 95.3%
Books: 91/100 = 91.0%
Pages: 22812/25000 = 91.2%
2009 Book List
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