It's a long weekend which means some solid reading time.
Here's what's on my bedside table.
I've had this one for a while and am about half-way through it. It needs concentration so it's no good for a lunch time read. It builds on some of Chown's other titles. I'm really starting to feel as if I understand the theory of things like the Large Hadron Collider
Summary: Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you that the universe is orchestrated by chance. The iron in a spot of blood on your finger tells you that somewhere out in space there is furnace at a temperature of 4.5 billion degrees. Your TV tells you that the universe had a beginning. In fact, your very existence tells you that this may not be the only universe but merely one among an infinity of others, stacked like the pages of a never-ending book. Marcus Chown takes familiar features of the world we know and shows how they can be used to explain profound truths about the ultimate nature of reality.
It's the latest title by the fabulous Fforde. He has written about the Nursery Crime Division (nursery rhyme/crime thriller mashup) and Thursday Next (a special operative investigating literary crimes.) This one promises to be just as weird and fun.
Summary: Eddie Russett lives in a world where fortune, career and ultimate destiny are rigidly dictated by the colours you can see, with Violet at the top, and Red at the bottom. Below the Colours are the Grey underclass who can only see tones of black and white. It is also a world of rules and regulations - a place of merits and demerits, prefects, bullies, snitches, sports days and over-boiled cabbage. Eddie is pretty happy - he thinks he can see over 70% Red, so will be able to marry up-spectrum. But then he meets Jane, a Grey: alluring, exciting - and dangerous. But she's not his only preoccupation. Eddie is awarded so many demerits his dowry is wiped out, and the only way to turn things around is to take a trip to High Saffron, an expedition from which no one has ever returned ...
Born to run : a hidden tribe, superathletes, and the greatest race the world has never seen by Christopher McDougall.I love to read about super athletic people while eating chocolate.
Summary: McDougall reveals the secrets of the world's greatest distance runners--the Tarahumara Indians of Copper Canyon, Mexico--and how he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of super-athletic Americans.
What have you got to read/watch/listen to this weekend?
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