too many items on the to-read list

[boxofdelights]

This is what I've got checked out from the library:

A paradise built in hell : the extraordinary communities that arise in disaster / Rebecca Solnit.
Dog tricks / by Deb M. Eldredge, DVM, and Kate Eldredge ; photography by Beth Adams.
MacBook for dummies / by Mark L. Chambers.
Waterwise landscaping with trees, shrubs & vines : a xeriscape guide for the Rocky Mountain region, California & the desert Southwest / by Jim Knopf.
Better living through criticism : how to think about art, pleasure, beauty, and truth / A. O. Scott.


Watership Down / Richard Adams.
Ex Machina. Book One / Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell / Susanna Clarke ; illustrations by Portia Rosenberg.
Deathless / Catherynne M. Valente.
Go set a watchman / Harper Lee.
People of the book : a novel / Geraldine Brooks.
After Alice : a novel / Gregory Maguire.
Riding freedom / written by Pam Muñoz Ryan ; drawings by Brian Selznick.
Lagoon / Nnedi Okorafor.
We are pirates : a novel / Daniel Handler.
The good, the bad and the smug / Tom Holt.
Carol / Patricia Highsmith.
The horizontal man.
East of Eden / John Steinbeck

Deadwood. The complete third season [videorecording] / Home Box Office ; Roscoe Productions.
My old lady [videorecording] / Cohen Media Group and BBC Films ; produced by Rachael Horovitz ... [et al.] ; written and directed by Israel Horovitz.
Arrested development. Season four / Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Labyrinth [videorecording] / Henson Associates, inc. and LucasFilm Ltd. ; producer, Eric Rattray ; story by Dennis Lee and Jim Henson ; screenplay, Terry Jones ; director, Jim Henson.
Masters of sex. The complete second / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
The man from U.N.C.L.E. [videorecording] / writers, Guy Ritchie, Lionel Wigram ; producers, John Davis, Steve Clark-Hall, Lionel Wigram, Guy Ritchie ; director, Guy Ritchie.
Orphan black. Season three / produced by Alex Levin, Claire Welland, Aubrey Nealon, Tatiana Maslany ; written by Chris Roberts, Alex Levin, Hannah Cheesman, Lynn Coady, Aubrey Nealon, Russ Cochrane ; directed by John Fawcett, David Frazee, Helen Shaver, Chris Grismer.

What should I read instead, given that it is less than four weeks till Wiscon?

Comments

[watersword]

OMG read the Solnit, she is SO SMART.

[boxofdelights]

She is! I've read several of her smaller essays. I'm reading this tome slowly, not because it isn't interesting but because it keeps getting bumped by something I'm reading for book group. She strikes me as a very honest writer too: she clearly has a thesis, but she doesn't ignore the parts of her research that don't support it.

[luzula]

If you haven't read Watership Down, I would read that! Possibly not relevant to Wiscon, but then I don't know what's relevant for that.

Also, the Solnit is on my list of books to check out, but I haven't gotten around to it.

[bibliofile]

Have you read enough-for-you stuff by the GoHs? My favorite Larbalestier is her latest, Razorhurst, which is about the working poor in historic Sydney, with ghosts. Sofia Samatar's second novel is out, so you can buy it at WisCon if you don't get to it before then. And surely you've read things written &/or edited by Nalo Hopkinson, yes?

[jesse_the_k]

I think many folks will be talking about Charlie Anders' novel. It's a gas, and short, and it's (in part) fantasy vs SF so relevant to cons.
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