SFist Reads
Between our online reserves and the review copies we happily receive, we've had such a book backup that we haven't made it out to any of our fine local independent bookstores over the past week. Listen to us whine about how busy we are with our free books! Well, soon you too will be able to share in the fun, as SFist will be giving away review copies of books, music, and movies from Thanksgiving through the December holidays. Start preparing now for what will be some of our biggest, wackiest, and oddest giveaways ever. Exciting!
Nobody in the world is as psyched as SFist Jer, who is reading A Feast For Crows, the fifth and latest installment in George R.R. Martin's awesomest-ever fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. While Jer has found most fantasy series rather lame since graduating junior high school, he loves this sprawling, detailed and well-written epic. He's not afraid to have an opinion: better than Tolkien. Believe it.
SFist Derrick is trying to see how many books he can squeeze into the weekly Reads roundup. His bedside table includes Sous Vide by Joan Roca and Salvador Bruges, a primer translated from its original Catalan about a cooking technique sweeping through snooty restaurants, and Patience Gray's Honey From a Weed, which many experts consider the best exploration of Mediterranean cuisine in print. Perched in his backpack is DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web. He's more or less convinced that this Web thing isn't just a fad, so he thinks it's time to explore this HTML thing he keeps hearing about.