I’m not dead and I still read books. I’m just not good at this blogging thing.
The Report, Jessica Frances Kane
I first encountered this book through a preview that was part of a Powell’s Indiespensable that my mom passed along to me. A few days ago she sent me the full novel. Here are the facts: On March 3, 1943, a crush occurred at the entry to the Bethnal Green underground air raid shelter. 173 …
In brief:
Neutron Star by Larry Niven The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear by Seth Mnookin Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All by Paul Offit Losing My Cool: How a Father’s Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture by Thomas Chatterton Williams (his dad was my SAT tutor)
Disintegration, Eugene Robinson
Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America, Eugene Robinson Robinson is a frequent guest on the Rachel Maddow Show, which I listen to as an audio podcast fairly frequently, and I usually like what he has to say. The main point of the book is that there is not one “Black America,” which to me seems …
Catching Fire, Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
These books are the second and third of the Hunger Games trilogy. I really liked these books and even though I know they’re marketed as young adult books I kept forgetting that as I read. I really think they could be packaged for the general adult market. What is it about books about dystopian futures …
Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Alison suggested that I try breaking out of my (lack of) reading rut with some post-apocalyptic YA books. While I don’t know if I’m cured, I did read this in one sitting and enjoyed it. I haven’t read much YA; even when I was a teen I mostly read adult fiction and non-fiction.
Two more
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, Stieg Larsson I’m going to miss reading about Lisbeth Salander. Bipolar II: Enhance Your Highs, Boost Your Creativity, and Escape the Cycles of Recurrent Depression – The Essential Gudie to Recognize and Treat the Mood Swings of This Increasingly Common Disorder, Ronald R. Fieve, M.D. The dude could …
Two books
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson Addictive, but really cruel at times. This really is the full list of books I’ve read since the last time I posted. Those of you who knew me well can infer what this means about my life …
Shelves, soup, but no books
I have been in a reading funk lately. Light fluffy reads irritate me, more serious reads bog me down. I made it about 200 pages into Freedom but was so irritated by the section that’s supposed to be Patty’s autobiography being written a) in the third person and b) in the same voice as the …
Persuader, Lee Child
When I am not feeling well, I read thrillers. 61 Hours was just what I needed the other day, so I thought perhaps more Jack Reacher would be a good idea. This is an earlier Reacher novel, and it’s written in the first person instead of the third. There’s a lot more back story to …