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I finished Robertson Davies’ The Rebel Angels<\/a>. If I can get a hold of some of the ideas that are flitting around my head with respect to it, I’ll try to crank out a review sometime this weekend. The short version – I like the thoughts it made me think. I didn’t so much like it.<\/p>\n

I am now beginning Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination<\/a>. It was actually tough selecting my next book. I have a backlog of books I want to get through including:<\/p>\n

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  1. Mary Doria Russle, Children of God<\/a> – a follow up to the remarkable The Sparrow<\/a>. I was really tempted to start this one, but it seemed like a little to much religious philosophy on the heels of The Rebel Angels<\/b>.<\/li>\n
  2. Brian Greene, The Elegant universe<\/a> – This one has been on my shelf for a while, and it seemed like a perfect breath of cleansing sherbet after the philosophy I still haven’t fully digested. But, I suspect it won’t be a quick read, and I need a quick read next.<\/li>\n
  3. Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere<\/a> – This is almost certainly the book that I should be reading next. But, I so enjoyed American Gods<\/a>, I want to delay the gratification of reading another Gaiman book for just a little while longer.<\/li>\n
  4. Carl Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin<\/a> – I’ve recently become fascinated with Ben Franklin, but the biography feels a little dense, and I’m not quite ready to try to trudge my way through it just yet.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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