Sunday, March 9, 2008
What I'm Reading
Thanks for the tip, offered by another Baltimorean about how to catch rats (with fried chicken). Haven't been posting lately as this has been a surprisingly busy time for me. Right now I am reading a book called "A Colongy of Citizens: Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804," by Laurent Dubois. I'm only a couple chapters in and it is pretty interesting so far. Any book with this long a title was not meant to be a best seller. It seems by giving your book this long a title you say, "this is for academics only, normal reader do not bother to pick this up!" Thus shooting yourself in the foot sales wise. If I had written this book I would have called it: "Blood in the Caribbean" or something like that. Unfortunately I have no time to read books of my choice these days, but in that vain, what are you all reading out there? (By you all I mean my three faithful readers of course.)
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I pretty much exclusively read trash novels. In the past week, that has been Bermuda Schwartz by Bob Morris, The Spelman Files by Lisa Lutz, and I'm currently working on Hurricane Punch by Tim Dorsey. I'm definitely partial to South Florida mystery(ish) writers.
After I finish this latest one (and a Lee Child that I have lined up), I'm hoping to read something a little more culturally/intellectually/spiritually redeeming. I saw that there is a third book in the Celestine Prophecy series that I never got around to reading back in the day. Or I was eying an Ayn Rand down at the library the other day.
Good times. I like reading.
You know what I am reading but, in the spirit of keeping your blog going, I will post anyway. I don't read books, unless they have 1,000 pages and no pictures. All I read during school are the Week and People magazines.
Wren- If you haven't already, you should read Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen. Not the best book ever, but a mystery set in South Florida :)
PS- Dave, talking to you on your blog counts as conversation, even if you are in the same room.
It's sad when your fiance posts out of sympathy. :-(
I'm reading Undaunted Courage, about the Lewis and Clark expedition. My favorite recent snippet - when they meet up with some Shoshone Indians who have been pretty hungry. Some of the members of the expedition kill a deer. One Shoshone warrior is then seen eating an eight foot long section of uncooked lower intestine, while squeezing the contents out from the other end. Those guys must have had stomaches of steel! Stephen Ambrose is pretty good, but sometimes he is guilty of a reverence for the explorers that is a bit over the top. Also reading Inside Out and Outside In, about psychodynamic theory.
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