Recent Book Activity

I like to read a lot of science fiction, sometimes murder mysteries for variety. I have recently taken a liking to the sub-genre of alternate history. A lot of my collection I got from fundraiser book sales at local libraries, the .25 cents a piece five for a dollar kind. I found a book this way with a series of short stories in it. In this book was a short story called "The Spirit of Xmas Sideways". A murder mystery set in an alternate universe where the federal government doesn't exist. The author, L. Neil Smith, has become one of my favorites.
From what I have seen of the various bookcrossing zones in the Philadelphia area I will see what I can do to expand them.


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I like this quote:
"The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one that looks as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more stairways than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. "

Terry Pratchett