Currently Reading

Of course I'm not only reading Jurassic Park. I'm not sure why I always have a couple books going at the same time. I finished our book club book for March. There will be a post after our meeting on it. I also finished the third book in the Stephanie Plum series and will be working through the rest of them. This is a series that I can read a book in a couple days and be in a good mood after them. The books are just hilarious! I also picked up The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction (sixtieth anniversary edition) at the library. There are a lot of authors I haven't read anything by yet. I figured by reading some short stories I will know if I want to pick up a larger work. I've read two stories so far; "Other People" by Neil Gaiman and "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut. Both stories piqued my interest. Gaiman's story is very short but brings up some harsh questions about the afterlife in Hell and how one is punished for the sins they committed. The ending threw me a little but it makes sense to me. Vonnegut's story was just scary in how the human race has tried to make everyone equal to each other through hiding differences and adding weights to slow people down. The idea of this government that wants everyone the same is ugly to me. You root for Harrison but know that there was no other way the ending could be. I'm sorry - I don't want to give too much away!