WithMentalReservations

Absolutely.  I can't help it.  Perhaps I need a "twelve-step" for bibliophiles.  Anyway, this day I've added three more to my pile of "must reads."  The 4% Universe , by Richard Panek, The Star-Crossed Stone , by Kenneth J. McNamara, and Blood Bound , by Patricia Briggs.  The Briggs book is pure mind-flush...something light but enjoyable.  I've read all of her "Mercy Thompson" novels and have enjoyed them all.  They're all about the supernatural creatures I most enjoy...vampires and werewolves, although the protagonist in this series is a shape-changer that can become a coyote!  Ms. Briggs is a fine story-teller and I can recommend all of this series as well as the Alpha and Omega novels.  She has many more that I've not yet gotten to, and I expect I will enjoy all of her work eventually. The other two are non-fiction, the reading I generally prefer.  The 4% Universe is about the discovery of the "missing mass" of the unive...

I just spent some money I really shouldn't have because I made the mistake of walking into one of Bellingham's many used bookstores...this one, Eclipse Books, in Fairhaven.  A two-story, jumbled mass of books, barely sorted by category, with stacks on the floor because all the shelf space is filled to over-flowing.  Hours can be spent just scanning the shelves and stacks...I know, for I've spent hours doing just that.  I've been looking for a couple of specific titles to no avail, but I almost never leave without finding a treasure.  Today's find is Scaling: Why Is Animal Size So Important , a Cambridge University press paperback on a topic that I've found fascinating ever since I discovered the Area/Volume relationship explained why there are no spiders that could eat Cleveland (though some may wish there were).  It was a mere $7, marked down from $9.95...such a steal! Earlier I had purchased House by Tracy Kidder, and I'm almost through it as I write, p...