an adventure in reading: BLOGGING: It's Tuesday, Where Are You?

Thursday, July 14, 2011

BLOGGING: It's Tuesday, Where Are You?

It's been a while since we've played this meme, but luckily nearly every book has a setting of some kind. So, inquiring minds want to know - Where is reading taking you today?

Since it is Paris in July, I thought it was time to head to Paris, so I am in Paris in the 1700s, as Antoine Lavoisier is beginning his scientific career. He's known for a few things, most notably his experiments and discovery of oxygen and hydrogen and his understanding of conservation of mass. But, as all good nonfiction should do, I've also learned he was a major developer of the metric system. I love the metric system! I love it so much, I show my physics class this video every year:

Back to Lavoisier. Not to give anything away, but since it is around the Revolution, and he is nobility, it doesn't look good for him.

I am reading Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution by Madison Smartt Bell from the Great Discoveries series.

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Cathy · 715 weeks ago

I'm in California, and also shooting on location with Dick Van Dyke's My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business. He hasn't started Diagnosis Murder yet.

From the library as an e-book. I'm expanding my horizons. I also just got notification from the library for the audiobook of Tina Fey's Bossypants. I don't usually get audiobooks, but I've heard good things, as Tina Fey is the voice for her own book.

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raidergirl3 91p · 715 weeks ago

From what I've read, Tina Fey's audio version is the one to go for. Dick Van Dyke sounds good - but it also kinda sounds like Alan Alda's memoir - both extremely likeable, talented actors in some of our favorite shows.
I finished Annabel - I'll bring it over tomorrow.

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Cathy · 715 weeks ago

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raidergirl3 91p · 715 weeks ago

that's weird, you posted twice.

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Cathy · 715 weeks ago

I know--it gives me a timed out error when I comment, so I thought it hadn't posted. Now I know to refresh after I get the error, and see that it's there. I couldn't find a way to delete the extra post.

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lemon123 54p · 715 weeks ago

I've never heard of the The Great Discoveries series.

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raidergirl3 91p · 715 weeks ago

This is actually the second Great Discovery book I've read, plus I have Ernest Rutherford's here to read as well. They are all written by different authors, but cover a history of science. The first one I read was about Miss Leavitt, who studied stars but didn't get any credit.

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Treva · 715 weeks ago

I've just left Iceland where Elinborg solved the mystery because Erlander is off finding himself. Now I'm in the Sahara Desert with The Little Prince who is telling St-Exupery about his little planet.

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raidergirl3 91p · 715 weeks ago

Yea Elinborg!
We were in the Saraha with the Amazing Race yesterday.

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Bev@My Readers Block · 715 weeks ago

Always glad to see this meme up!

Here's mine: http://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2011/07/its-tu...

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raidergirl3 91p · 715 weeks ago

Days are a bit hard to keep track of. I actually thought I was posting on Tuesday, oops! Glad you posted too.

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Bev@My Readers Block · 715 weeks ago

Summer does make it easy to lose track of days...I know I did when I was off work for surgery.

As far as the Lord Peter books go...if you want to read them all, then I would suggest starting at the beginning (Whose Body?). If you wanted to start mid-stream, then I'd suggest starting with Strong Poison (beginning of the Peter/Harriet Vane books). If you click on my sidebar "As My Whimsey Takes Me" challenge...it will take you to a listing of all the books in order.

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raidergirl3 91p · 715 weeks ago

thanks Bev! That's exactly the type of suggestion I wanted. I've heard how good the Harriet/Peter books are, but didn't know where to begin. And when there are so many books, it's hard to know exactly where to begin.

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Kailana · 715 weeks ago

Paris would be nice. All of the posts about it are almost as good. :)

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raidergirl3 91p · 715 weeks ago

I saw Midnight in Paris tonight, to continue the theme.

It's a tough time to have any power in Paris for Lavoisier.

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margreads 71p · 715 weeks ago

Glad to see this post today!

I am in upstate New York investigating hate crimes (A Fountain Filled with Blood by Julia Spencer-Fleming). I am also in Paris with Alice B Toklas and Gertrude Stein talking food (Murder in the Kitchen by Alice B Toklas) and in Victorian steampunk England reading The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross.

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raidergirl3 91p · 715 weeks ago

Good to see you Marg!

I haven't read anything by Stein or Toklas, but I read a book called Waiting for Gertrude (cats in a cemetery) that was all about them.
Steampunk is a genre I'd like to read sometime. It sounds like such a fusion.