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The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian People

Sword of Dracula (2003) by Jason Henderson

Comic book miniseries collected in paperback, just started. Very interesting so far. It's basically Zero Dark Thirty meets Dracula, with special forces military going after "the bin Laden of vampires," as they call him, with helicopters and hawthorn-tipped bullets. It's nice to see Dracula as a villain again (as opposed to the sympathetic and romantic antihero approach that's been popular for the last 30 or so years) and the new powers he's been given (controlling and manipulating blood like Magneto does with metal) are pretty creative.

Whoops, the title is actually 'The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia'

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China - by Jung Chang

'A Királyné Nyaklánca', by the Hungarian novelist Antal Szerb. I'm reading it in the German translation, 'Das Halsband der Königin'.

Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare

I'm currently reading The Princess Bride.

Most recent book I finished was The Meaning of Meaning.

richard north patterson's "protect and defend". best book i've read in a good while. excellent use of omniscient point of view. thorough exploration of a tough subject.

Book #1 in the Hornblower series.

Or book #6 if you're stupid like the publisher and number them chronologically.

Sadly, that's one of the better covers I've been able to find online.

My edition has a cover that's slightly less appalling, but not by much.

just started - God Created the Integers

A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War by Ronald Fierstein.

I have the Kindle version. The first 30% of the book was basically a biography of Land and the development of his inventions. The next third of the book (at least - I'm 60% through it), is a detailed account of Polaroid's legal battles with Kodak. It's VERY detailed. I'm sticking with it because the overall subject matter interests me, but I have to admit the courtroom strategies are a bit thick to slog through. I just reached the end of the initial trial, so hopefully it'll get back to the good stuff soon.

Frontier Cthulhu.

Anthology of short horror fiction in the Lovecraftian tradition, taking place on the American frontier.

Turning Confusion into Clarity by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche