Toadfish Monastery

An older book (1978) on the role of science in WW2

The Tenderness of Wolves ~ Steph Penney

Maybe I should read the Friday papers at last

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Fateful Choices - Ian Kershaw

Joseph Staten - Contact Harvest (from the Halo books series).

Churchill's Wizards
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The next Pratchett is due next week in a proper edition (i.e.a British one with a Kidby Cover)

Quote from: Swatopluk on September 12, 2009, 09:11:11 PM
An older book (1978) on the role of science in WW2

Not R.V. Jones's Most Secret War by any chance?

Good book if you haven't read it yet.  Good technical stuff and quite amusing (he wasn't overburdened with modesty).

Quote from: beagle on October 09, 2009, 10:18:53 PM

Quote from: Swatopluk on September 12, 2009, 09:11:11 PM
An older book (1978) on the role of science in WW2

Not R.V. Jones's Most Secret War by any chance?

Good book if you haven't read it yet.  Good technical stuff and quite amusing (he wasn't overburdened with modesty).

No, the German translation of Brian Johnson's The Secret War (based on a BBC series I believe)

I saw some of The Secret War (very complimentary about German engineering by the way, especially the Würzburgs ).  I've still got one of the tapes somewhere, about how radar was discovered while the air Ministry was investigating if there was any credibility in the Sci-Fi death ray idea.

They were in part based on Jones's book.  Don't think the Bletchley Park story had fully been publicised by then though, so they were a bit light on that.

James May's Magnificent Machines

Learned Optimism - How to Change Your Mind and Life  ~ Martin Seligman

Just the morning papers

I am chronically halfway through a number of books. "Stiff" and "The Great Mortality" are the two that I really need to finish most pressingly.

Still no time for reading anything aside from the latest issue of the Economist, and I've even taken to listening to the unabridged podcast version to fill the long hours while driving.  I drove about 3000 km last week, and it damned near takes that long to get through an entire Economist on tape, so to speak.  I wish they sold books at those kind of word:$ ratios.