Bookin'

In the eternal quest to make ends meet while earning about poverty level, I've taken a part-time job at Phonebank Systems answering calls for various public TV stations around the country. In between pledge breaks I've been catching up on a lot of reading.


I just finished the "March to the Stars", the latest in the David Weber/John Ringo "March Upcountry" series, and found it to be riveting enough that I found myself reading till late into the night. The characters are engaging and I'm kept anxiously waiting for the next disaster to strike Prince Roger and his rapidly shrinking battalion of marine bodyguards. Baen Books, the publisher, has a nifty program going on -- they put select volumes, unabridged, on the web for free download. In this case, you can download "The March Upcountry" (the first in the series) as an Ebook. (I read it on my Handpring Treo.) I think the idea is you try the series, and if you like it they figure you'll buy the books. And if I weren't so flat broke, I would. Meantime, I rely on the good offices of the East Lansing Public library and my good friend Craig Norman (evil, evil boy -- he's gotten me hooked on several Baen series now!).