So. . Waaddja readin'?
If you are like me (ok. . shouldn't start off a post with an insult).
I'll start again.
I tend to have a couple of books working at a time. If they bore me or become a chore, I simply don't finish them. It also takes me a while to get through any of them, since I read for a living and usually fall asleep after a couple of pages. . . , picking back up when insomina kicks in at 3 am.
Right now I'm working on the last couple of issues of Sports Illustrated, a baseball book by Buzz Bissinger, Who wrote Friday Night Lights, called Three Nights in August (St. Louis Cardinals. . Tony LaRussa. . how could this St. Louis native resist?) , and some really light fare, Stalingrad, by Antony Beevor. The Nazi-Soviet front was neglected in my history education and continues to fascinate me to this day.
So. . what are YOU reading?
I'll start again.
I tend to have a couple of books working at a time. If they bore me or become a chore, I simply don't finish them. It also takes me a while to get through any of them, since I read for a living and usually fall asleep after a couple of pages. . . , picking back up when insomina kicks in at 3 am.
Right now I'm working on the last couple of issues of Sports Illustrated, a baseball book by Buzz Bissinger, Who wrote Friday Night Lights, called Three Nights in August (St. Louis Cardinals. . Tony LaRussa. . how could this St. Louis native resist?) , and some really light fare, Stalingrad, by Antony Beevor. The Nazi-Soviet front was neglected in my history education and continues to fascinate me to this day.
So. . what are YOU reading?
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Right now I'm reading a post by Stewdog called, "So...Waaddja readin'?". I'm breaking a rule of mine not to read things that scare me before going to bed (and Stewdog's posts usually do just that).
This one, however, has me hooked. Can't wait to find out if the Nazis and Soviets end up together...
I'm reading a novel called Empire Falls, by Richard Russo. I'm halfway through and enjoying it (much better than I enjoyed The Corrections, another celebrated book of a few years ago). It's kind of a comi-tragic tale of blighted lives in central Maine, with some small-town mystery thrown in for fun.
I just finished (only hours ago!) slogging my way through Glorious Appearing, the 12th and final book in the Left Behind series [Shh. Don't tell the Vatican] by Tim F. Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. The first book was the best of the lot, but I had to know what happened. Who knew it would drag on for 12 novels?
Last night I skipped ahead to read The Man Who Would Be King, which was one of several stories in a book of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. I've had the book for 9 weeks and cannot renew it again, so I figured I should at least read the main story. All the stories were good, but a challenge to read.
In between, I've been reading newspapers (WSJ, Wash Post, Catholic Herald) and magazines: Science News, Economist, Wired, Car & Driver, and Scientific American. (CIV bought many subscriptions last year to support the school band. Some of these will not be renewed.)
CIV recommends the pricey but good Wall Street Journal and Science News.
Just finished a review of the much-anticipated Honda CRF450X in Dirt Rider Magazine. It's a four-stroke dream with an electric start and newly designed frame. Leaner and meaner than the Yamaha 450WR. Poetry, man. Sheer poetry.
-Dirtbiker for W
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