stoutfellow

It's been a while since I ordered anything from Amazon, but I put in a new order last week, and a box-o-books arrived today. In it:

The Science of Art: optical themes in western art from Brunelleschi to Seurat, by Martin Kemp; recommended - or at least mentioned - on the Bujold list by LMB herself.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty; it's been a hot topic on the political blogs I read for quite some time. It's definitely a tome, but should be interesting.

Math Girls, by Hiroshi Yuki; it's described as "[c]ombining mathematical rigor with light romance".

The Secret Life of Pronouns, by James Pennebaker, which is apparently about discoveries from the relatively new field of corpus linguistics in the computer age.

Homelands, by Bill Willingham, the next volume (5? I don't recall) in his "Fables" series of graphic novels.

I also picked up electronic copies of some SF/F - Through Struggle, the Stars by John Lumpkin, New Amsterdam #1 by Elizabeth Bear, The Disappeared by Kristine Kathryn Rusch - and also Wizard of the Crow, by Ngugi Wa'Thiong'O. (I'm not sure where I ran across that last one or how it got on my to-get list, but it does look intriguing.)

I'll probably start with Homelands; it's probably the lightest thing I bought.