I could have sworn Bloor started one of these threads this year but damn if I could find it. I clicked through every page of 2011 and it doesn't seem to exist. Pretty pathetic that we are in March and only have 7+ pages of threads but anyway...

Finally finished:



A.J. Liebling's "The Telephone Booth Indian"

About halfway through:



Thomas McGuane's "92 in the Shade" which I'm really liking.

I mostly read fiction but I'm currently reading Lawrence Ritter's The Glory of their Times about the early days of baseball.



I'm enjoying it. A lot of amusing stories.

Enjoyed this very much. Haven't read "The Corrections". Any thoughts on it?

A little bland at times, but overall, it gives a good idea of the history of health care, mainly from the insurance side, and a history of how health care reform has been stifled for over a hundred years. Should be required reading for elected officials...

From what I remember, I did like The Corrections, but wasn't astounded by it. I think I appreciated the style of it most, though. Have yet to read Freedom, but it's queued, ie. I'll read it in the summer.

I've read a crap load since Sept. right now reading comics. a few weeks ago I read Deliverance. cool book.

Just read the Tao te Ching (again) last night-Stephen Mitchell translation.
Always helps me focus (or, unfocus, as it were). I needed that.

About what you'd expect:


and

I was always under the impression that you read the Autobiography of Malcolm X and Haroun & the Sea of Stories over and over. I didn't realize there was a third book.

I'm trying to read 40 books this year, on top of all the crazy amounts of comics and graphic novels I read.

So far, I've done six and a lot of comics. I'm also obsessed with NYRB pressings, if that isn't obvious.



and starting right now:

Recently finished:



Now reading:

regarding



Jesus Christ, I just a read a disturbing review in the New Yorker magazine about this English author's life

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2011/02/07/110207crbo_books_acocella

Currently I am reading and enjoying

I'm a fan of those Broadway Library Of Lacerny series, my favourite is McGoorty : A Pool room hustler,good stuff.

Currently reading:



Then:

You'd be surprised; there are a couple of others!

I'm very slowly working my way through this:



It is so dense it's hard to keep track of everything, but interesting nonetheless.

Working my way through this. It was self published, and therefore written without the help of an effective editor. This makes it meandering and chronologically confusing, and suffused with the author's own defensiveness, score settling, and conjecture. All of which weakens many of his main points. I also worked for the guy involved, which colors my own biases. I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. It is, however, enlightening to know how much fucking money some shitbirds around town made.


Edit for posting in iPad:

This is on deck. I'm also going to send a copy to Squirg and First Mate. A book club of sorts.

BG: I never started the thread mainly out of embarrassment for being such an illiterate slob.

Since Christmas:










The Sam Cutler book is pretty poorly written and the Pixies book would be incredibly boring if it weren't an oral history. As such, it's a pretty good read.

I thought Chuck had a pretty limited range but I still like to read his stuff on the way to work because I have attention issues.
This book is written entirely in some made up language of scientific broken engRish. It might be too hard for me to read on the train.
Pretty engaging so far.


The last few years have been pretty strange for me.
It's led me to the spiritual belief that I'm controlling my small slice of the world with my thoughts.
This book is just reaffirming my crazy.


Lots of interesting studies about how the brain functions within the first couple seconds of perceiving something.


I really wish this book had a million more pictures, because I can only read it side by side with a google image search.
Otherwise I don't know what the fuck building she's talking about.


Just finished this. It was just all right. Made me feel hungover. Running with scissors was much better.


A fictional biography of Mamah Cheney and her life with Frank Lloyd Wright. A little too romance novel-ly for me but I love reading about Frankie.

Finished this a few weeks ago and jumped directly into The Corner.

Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis
Deadwood: Stories of the Black Hills by David Milch
Daddy's Boy by Chris Elliott with rebuttals by Bob Elliott (just got this in the mail today)

and a bunch of other shit.

I've always enjoyed reading Palahniuk. He's been on a downward trend lately, but "Pygmy" is probably one of my favorites of his most recent works. I think I'm going to start re-reading "Fight Club" this week.