Current reading

[vivdunstan]

I thought I’d start a semi regular post here about what I’m currently reading.

I mainly read on my Kindle, with a dozen or so books on the go there right now. But my main ones are:

• Robert Jordan’s The Great Hunt, the second in the Wheel to Time series. I’m approaching 2/3 through now, and liking this more than the opening book. It is quite hard to resist the temptation to peek at spoilers!
• Mary Tamm’s Second Generations autobiography book 2. Which is going to be sadly curtailed, but is a compelling read, and very well written.
• The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel, about the astronomy work done by a group of very skilled women in 19th century Harvard, including Dundee’s own Williamina Fleming. Quite fascinating stuff, and something I can relate to, having studied astronomy for 2 years of my undergraduate degree, and only thwarted in my attempts to study it to honours by St Andrews having just newly scrapped the CS&Astro combo.

I also have some physical books that I am battling with by the bed, including a recent coffee table book about Somerset, an omigosh photograph book of the treasures from the tomb of Tutankhamun, and a popular Russian schoolbook (albeit in translation, thankfully!) about a genie finding himself in Soviet era Russia.