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It’s Monday What Are You Reading? is a group blog hosted by J. Kaye’s Book Blog. You can link your blog by clicking here. I’m cheating this week. I was on the road last Monday, and didn’t get around to participating in the group blog. So, today’s post is actually what I’ve been reading over the past two weeks. I read both of my Christmas gift books The Devil’s Eye by Jack McDevitt and The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett. I also listened to the audio version of Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, read The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell and an all ages sort of picture book by Jon Muth called Stonecutter. My quick reviews on each of these books are listed below. The Devil’s Eye Jack McDevitt...

It’s Monday What Are You Reading? is a group blog hosted by J. Kaye’s Book Blog. You can link your blog by clicking here. Well, I read a grand total of one book last week, thanks to the holiday and all the craziness cutting into my reading time, but thankfully it was an entertaining book, though not exactly the escapist sort of fare that I really could have used last week. Perpetual Motion: The History of an Obsession by Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume I love science books. I love history books. So, when a book manages to masterfully combine science and history, I am hooked. That was the case with Perpetual Motion: The History of an Obsession by Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume. Also, I am thinking that some sort of law should be passed that only the British are...