Wednesday, April 6, 2011

WWW: Wednesdays


WWW: Wednesdays is hosted by MizB ofver at Should Be Reading.

To play along just answer the following three questions....

*What are you currently reading?
*What did you just recently finish reading?
*What do you think you'll read next?

Current: How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe by Charles Yu Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time-travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. That’s where Charles Yu, time travel technician—part counselor, part gadget repair man—steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he’s not taking client calls, Yu visits his mother (stuck in a onehour cycle, she makes dinner over and over and over) and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem, and a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog named Ed, and using a book titled How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe as his guide, Yu sets out, and back, and beyond, in order to find the one day where he and his father can meet in memory.

Read Since Last Wednesday (click titles for reviews):
Jerusalem Inn by Martha Grimes
Ten Little Herrings by L. C. Tyler

Up Next:
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Burial Deferred by Jonathan Ross
Victorian Tales of Mystery & Detection: An Oxford Anthology

1 comment:

CMash said...

Your current read sounds profound, but then, I'm not surprised lol.