Oh, Yeah, And At Some Point, I'll Probably Pack Some Clothes, Too.

Well, I think I've decided on which books I'll be taking on the cruise. I've finally settled on the following:

Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan, because I'm almost certainly not going to finish it before I leave. I started it last week and figured I'd be long since done with it by now, but I'm having trouble getting into it. It's got some good worldbuilding, and started out looking like it was going to have a really interesting mystery plot, but quickly wandered off into the realm of gratuitous sex and carnage. Not that I object to that in principle, really -- hey, I bet it'd make a great Schwarzenegger flick -- but it's just not what I've been in the mood for lately.

The Dragonlance Legends trilogy by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Time of the Twins, War of the Twins and Test of the Twins). Undemanding, entertaining, turn-your-brain-off vacation reading.

Hellfire Nation by James A. Morone, which I just got in the mail today and which looks like it will do nicely for when I get tired of reading fluffy Dragonlance books.

That should probably do me, although, of course, I as soon as I say that I'm hit by the nagging worry that I might finish them all and -- gasp! -- find myself with nothing to read. Even if I don't get a whole lot of chance to read on the ship, those are pretty long plane flights back and forth to Vancouver, after all... Maybe I should add another book or two to the stack. Hmm.