BOOKS THREAD

I need to know how all of you have so much time to read. Every time I look at this thread I get an anxiety attack thinking about all the books I've bought and never opened.

 

The secret to getting reading done? Take transit to work.

 

Mod, did you see Keith Olberman wrote a review of Leavy's book in the NYT Book Review today? Good stuff. I bought it for my nook the other day. Can't wait to start it ... still am working on Freedom.

 

Heller. And one book was all it took.

 

Reading some Dale Brown -- international/political/high tech war stuff. Just finished Act of War and am reading Executive Intent. I'm reading much more since I got reading glasses. 8o)

 

Finished the new le Carre and enjoyed it, but he's getting a little formulaic.

 

Yeah, but I'm skeptical about how well his stuff will age when it is this anchored in its time.

 

Reading Alan Furst's "The Spies of Warsaw," on the recommendation of an old friend who has written three non-fiction books and is in the middle of writing one on HP now.

I'm not normally into fiction (except for Dan Jenkins, Leon Uris and Darryl Brock), but I'm finding this engaging. I'm going to have to read more of Furst's historical espionage tomes, which usually center on pre/early WW II Europe.

 

I love Furst's stuff, haven't been let down yet.

 

Read Scoreboard, Baby, the book version of the Seattle Times' series on the 2000 Washington football team. I knew most of it, but was still interesting/maddening/etc. Brought to mind an incident that happened probably in the 1999-2001 period when a friend and I went to a movie in an almost empty theater and Jerramy Stevens came in with his boys and sat right in front of us. Had to get up and move in order to see over his huge head. I would have said something except for the whole not wanting to get killed thing. He always was an asshole. Then read an oral history on the Simpsons which the writer mostly pieced together from previous interviews since no one currently involved in the show would take part. Some pretty good stuff in there I didn't know before, though.
Now reading Feinstein's Living on the Black.

 

Most recently read Winslow's "The Winter of Frankie Machine," and really enjoyed it. "California Fire and Life" is still probably my favorite two books in. I'll definitely be back for more of his stuff ... I have "The Power of the Dog" in the queue and may pick up "Dawn Patrol."

For now, I'm on more of a serious literature binge ... currently reading McCarthy's "Suttree," which is pretty damn readable as his stuff goes ... much easier than "Blood Meridian" (for which I own two reader's guides!) Also picked up Flannery O'Connor's "Wise Blood" and her "Complete Stories" on the recommendation of a friend.