The Fall of the House of Zeus by Curtis Wilkie

I’m not going to say much about this book here, for a couple reasons. First, John, Joe, and Lisa have all been posting excerpts and thoughts on the book and the event — I don’t know that I can improve much on what they’ve already done and said. Second, I’ve been posting my thoughts on the book as I read it on our store Facebook page. I decided that rather than hurrying through the book and then trying to construct some overall perspective on it, I’d just take it day by day, and point out the parts I found especially interesting. You know how, when you’re reading and someone else is in the room, you’ll occasionally stop and say, “Hey — listen to this” and then read a couple sentences out loud? That’s what I wanted to do. Check out our Facebook and tell me what you are finding interesting in Wilkie’s book.

Running Blind by Lee Child

The Lee Child train rolls on — this is the 4th book in the series, and I honestly feel the the first 3 books got successively better. We just got signed copies of the most recent book in the series, Worth Dying For, and even though it’ll be some time before I’m ready to read it, I went ahead and bought one before they are gone.

Present at the Creation by Amir D. Aczel

I’m a sucker for a good pop science book and when this arrived in the store the other day, I ordered another copy for myself. The subject of the book is the Large Hadron Collider, a 17 mile circumference particle collider that spans the France-Switzerland border. It is the largest and most powerful particle collider ever built, and is capable of creating events not seen in this universe since the first moments after the Big Bang. When the construction was nearly completed and the CERN facility was preparing for the first tests in September 2008, there were a lot of these kinds of jokes circulating the Internet:

Meanwhile, at the Large Hadron Collider

So far, the physicists have managed to avoid creating any black holes, but the immense power and level of complexity of the Large Hadron Collider make for a compelling story.

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