Amazon Raid
Jan. 29th, 2012 06:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowAs I mentioned a bit ago, I was reading Virginia DeMarce's 1635: The Tangled Web. Having finished it, I was unclear enough on the sequence of events to date in the Ring of Fire universe that I decided to go ahead to a marathon. This was helped by the handy inclusion, in that volume, of a suggested reading order, by Eric Flint himself. Unfortunately, it included several volumes - four issues of the Grantville Gazette, Ring of Fire 2, and 1635: The Dreeson Incident - which I don't have. This prompted my first visit this year to Amazon.
I ordered those books, of course, but also went for a few more items from my to-get list: the fifth Mercy Thompson book (not out yet, but only days away); The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy (recommended by the Pinyin website); a Cambridge Language Surveys volume on the Dravidian languages (hi, Tora!); and A Tour Through Mathematical Logic. That last got a good writeup in one of the journals I read, and fills a gap. (I'm comfortable with propositional and predicate logic, but modal logic and model theory are unmapped territory to me, and the book also includes a chapter on constructivism, which I don't know enough about.)
As a side note, I see that, though we lost the local Borders, its site was immediately occupied by Books-a-Million. I don't know much about that chain; I'll have to wander over there sometime. Probably not until spring, though.
I ordered those books, of course, but also went for a few more items from my to-get list: the fifth Mercy Thompson book (not out yet, but only days away); The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy (recommended by the Pinyin website); a Cambridge Language Surveys volume on the Dravidian languages (hi, Tora!); and A Tour Through Mathematical Logic. That last got a good writeup in one of the journals I read, and fills a gap. (I'm comfortable with propositional and predicate logic, but modal logic and model theory are unmapped territory to me, and the book also includes a chapter on constructivism, which I don't know enough about.)
As a side note, I see that, though we lost the local Borders, its site was immediately occupied by Books-a-Million. I don't know much about that chain; I'll have to wander over there sometime. Probably not until spring, though.
