Interconnected

Books read March 2008, with date finished:

• A Science Fiction Omnibus, Brian Aldiss (editor) (13th)
• The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam, Robert Graves and Omar Ali-Shah (translators) (13th, r.)
• The Purple Cloud, M. P. Shiel (13th)
• A Lover's Discourse, Roland Barthes (15th)
• The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard (20th)
• The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within, Edward R. Tufte (21st)
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard (22nd, r.)
• Antarctica, Kim Stanley Robinson (23rd, r.)
• What is History?, E. H. Carr (26th)
• 253, Geoff Ryman (30th)

Graves' fraudulent Rubaiyyat is breath-taking, as always. Cherry-Garrard, Carr, Stoppard and Ryman are also happy additions to this month's reading. But Barthes' Lover's Discourse is an observed and poignant pattern language of love. Recommended.