There's a bookstore here now, and I just picked up an old (pub.1946) edition of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
About to bail from here and go read, what's on the nightstand for you?

this book, which, although long, is very, very good:

I'm halfway through Christopher Moore's "Lamb".

Just finished Kerouac's Satori in Paris. An effortless read.

Backburner: Visons of Cody, And the Ass Saw the Angel, As I Lay Dying.

Due to various circumstances im a fair way into each of these.

But right now i'm reading Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain. Its an interesting account of various psychic experiments conducted in the Soviet Union, as well as a rare glimpse into every day life under the Communist regime. According to this book, at least, a great deal of important scientific research was abolished after the wall fell.

Holy farm animals, Batman, I love the review--as good as it sounds?

Northern: At first glance this looks masochistic, but sometimes one needs perspective. Question: is your avatar the international sign for "waking up not knowing where you are"? I need to know.

I just finished "Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain. I haven't decided what I'll start next.

A compiliation from years back of short horror / noir stories. There's some good ones, some duds. And the spread of authors is interesting - just read one from Bram Stoker last night about Nurnberg, and it was cool to actually know what it looks like while I was reading it. I think Asimov and Bradbury are there too.

CS Lewis- Miracles
Assia djebar - l'amour la fantasia
azouz begag - le gone du chaaba
marguerite duras - moderato cantabile

It's awesome. One of the few books I've read that have made me laugh out loud. It's perfectly irreverent without being insulting.

Read a lot on vacation: Ian McEwan - The Innocent, Saturday; Bret Easton Ellis - Lunar Park; Da Vinci Code; the DeRogatis Flaming Lips thing.

Currently reading the Handmaid's Tale and, no surprise here, A Passage to India.

just started...

"Night" - Elie Wiesel

On the Road... I've been meaning to hit it for awhile but never got around to it. It really is as life changing as they say.

Kinda freaky how relavent it is.

I'll be in revision mode for my exams for the next month but on June 2nd I'll be able to actually read a novel. Awesome.

set down anna karenina for a little while, picked up civil disobedience, the beautiful and damned by fitzgerald, and brave new world for school and i hate it so far.
i really want to read of human bondage by maugham though

just finished 'the secret life of bees'
not sure what i'll pick up next.

Baseball & Philosophy

It's answering such age-old questions as: Would Kant cork his bat?

I beg to differ.

Good, but life changing or largely relevant...no.



lr: Ulysses

nr: Gravity's Rainbow

I crashed a book club meeting in Madison that my friend Monica hosted last week. They had just read the book. Both she and I loved it. A few liked it but wasn't sure about the irreverance. One person found it especially tiresome. Go fig.

As for me:
Gene Wolfe - Sword of the Lictor (Book of the New Sun, part 3)
Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich Action Pack

Just finished Blink, now reading No way to Treat a First Lady by christopher buckley, and I'm a Lucky Guy, by Joseph Cullman.

A bunch of books on the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn for a history class on New York. Seriously, some of these people get way too passionate about a baseball team they weren't even alive to see play there.

This has been reccomended to me enough to pique my curiosity.

As for me:

Just Finished:




Now onto:


That makes about 1500 on LBJ...but the cool thing is, it pretty well doubles as a history of the 20th century.

I am also reading:
Foxes in the Henhouse : How the Republicans Stole the South and the Heartland and What the Democrats Must Do to Run 'em Out by Steve Jarding and Mudcat Saunders....its pretty much another "Why we lose and how we won't fix it cos dolts like this run shit" manual

AND

Politics Lost : How American Democracy Was Trivialized By People Who Think You're Stupid by Joe Klein..pretty interesting, but I'm not sure if his premise holds.

"jailbird" by Vonnegut

not sure what i think of it at this point.
its not flowing as well as some of his other books, but i'm still enjoying it.

Marching Powder - by Thomas McFadden

An Autobiography of an Englishman who spends six years in a Bolivian Prison for drug smuggling. Pretty damn interesting.