#38. The Years of Rice and Saltby Kim Stanley Robinson
This man, in my opinion, is one of the smartest writers alive. And I deliberately did not include the words “science fiction” because I think his books should be considered as much mainstream as sci-fi.
This alternate history is not only eye opening, but I found myself nodding a lot. As in, yes, I do believe that could have and would have happened if 99 percent of Europe had died during the Plague.
January 2010

#38. The Years of Rice and Salt
by Kim Stanley Robinson

This man, in my opinion, is one of the smartest writers alive. And I deliberately did not include the words “science fiction” because I think his books should be considered as much mainstream as sci-fi.

This alternate history is not only eye opening, but I found myself nodding a lot. As in, yes, I do believe that could have and would have happened if 99 percent of Europe had died during the Plague.

January 2010

#38. The Years of Rice and Saltby Kim Stanley Robinson
This man, in my opinion, is one of the smartest writers alive. And I deliberately did not include the words “science fiction” because I think his books should be considered as much mainstream as sci-fi.
This alternate history is not only eye opening, but I found myself nodding a lot. As in, yes, I do believe that could have and would have happened if 99 percent of Europe had died during the Plague.
January 2010

#38. The Years of Rice and Salt
by Kim Stanley Robinson

This man, in my opinion, is one of the smartest writers alive. And I deliberately did not include the words “science fiction” because I think his books should be considered as much mainstream as sci-fi.

This alternate history is not only eye opening, but I found myself nodding a lot. As in, yes, I do believe that could have and would have happened if 99 percent of Europe had died during the Plague.

January 2010

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I am a voracious reader. An obsessive reader. An addicted reader. I read almost anything I can get my hands on. I own over a thousand books. I need more. I re-read everything I own when I run out of new books. I buy books. I do not borrow them from a library. I keep them. Forever.

In the spirit of the "Photograph A Day" projects I am going to chronicle everything I read for an entire year, starting in September, 2009.

All of the book images are the exact edition I have/read. Most of them are linked to Amazon.com but some are any image I can find because I own a lot of out of print books. Some I will rate or summarize or describe in depth . Some I won't because I'm too busy with the current book I'm reading. The top left picture will always be the book I'm reading *right now*. The date will sometimes be the approximate date I read the book and sometimes it will be exact. Hey, I'm busy.

There is no rhyme or reason to what I read and when I read it, although I am very, very partial to science fiction, biographies/autobiographies, history, historical fiction and classics.

Bascially:
"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes" - Erasmus


Oh. I'm also a freelance writer, but I try not to let that get in the way of reading.

~ Maria Christensen

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