His Master's Voice - Summer 2010 - Genre: Sci Fi

Genre #12 -- Sci Fi
His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem
read 7/11/10 - 7/15/10

This book was so hard to get through. I don't think I have ever felt so dumb after reading a book as I felt after reading His Master's Voice. The vocabulary and concepts are outrageously scientific. This is truly a SCIENCE fiction novel. I felt like I was reading a text book. I can't imagine how smart Lem must have been. This book is filled with chemistry, physics, philosophy, linguistics, mathematics, anthropology, sociology, and other -ics and -ologys that I'd never even heard of. The segments I could understand were cleverly written with witty metaphors. Overall, however, this book went way over my head.

This book was part of my 2010 summer reading program.

Library Summer Reading Program 2010

I first began participating in my library's summer reading program in 2010. That was actually my most "prolific" year to date. (It was before I had kids; need I say more?)

I really enjoyed the format of the 2010 summer reading program. The library selected 15 genres, dividing them into 5 groups. So, each little group had 3 genres. The goal was to choose 1 of the 3 genres in each of those 5 groups (thus, reading 5 books by the end of the summer). Well, since I've always been an over-achiever, I decided I wanted to read all 15 genres. It was such fun! The library gave recommendations of books and authors in each of the genres.

I originally posted my reviews on Facebook, but now that I have a blog, I'll also post them here.

Here are the 15 genres:
Fantasy (I actually read 2 for this one)
Historical
Horror
Literary
Mystery
Adventure
Thriller
Gentle Reads
Women's Lives
Suspense
Romance
Sci Fi
Western
Inspirational
Crime

Hope you enjoy the reviews! What's your favorite genre to read?