That is Zoe's Tale, by John Scalzi. My library owns the first three books on this series, and yet when I suggested that they buy this one, which could qualify as the fourth, I got a message stating that Scalzi was a fairly unknown author and that the library would not be getting this book. So I let it drop, hoping that the book may become available later on through interlibrary loan (oh, I am so cheap). Well, all of a sudden, I got another message from my library that the book was ready for me to pick up. Apparently, enough readers requested it that they went ahead and bought it. And the best part was, I was the first to read it.
It took me about two evenings to finish it, but that is not surprising, it happens to me with all of Scalzi's books. This is the same story of the third book, but written under a different character's point of view. Not boring at all, even when you already know what is going to happen. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The second book is The Nuclear Jihadist, by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins. Now that's a depressing book. You see, A.Q. Kahn, the scientist who developed the Pakistani nuclear bomb, went on to traffic nuclear technology with countries like Lybia, North Korea and Iran, all the while under CIA surveillance. And nobody stopped him, because nobody wanted to cause any turmoil in Pakistan. Well, Pakistan is in turmoil anyway, and now the genie is out of the bottle. Depressing indeed.
So let's talk about something more cheerful, shall we? How do you like the sock striping, so far? I like how it is coming out and I am thinking of making a plain stockinette sock without any bells and whistles. Any attempt to incorporate texture would ruin the wide stripes, don't you agree?
