Books! Whatcha reading?
5Even though I have a ridiculous amount of books sitting half-read on my shelves, I could always use more recommendations for good reads. Fiction, non-fiction, comics, whatever you're into right now I wanna hear about it.
I just started reading the Eisner Award winning Daytripper on a recommendation from Jeff Cannata.
I'm really enjoying it so far and I'm excited to see where it goes. I'm a big fan of the art style, really beautifully drawn.
I guess I'm on a grounded, slice of life graphic novel kick because I also have Persepolis lined up to read next.
I also want to pick up Bananas again, which I started and found fascinating but haven't gone back to.
So how about you fine folks, whatcha reading?
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Currently Reading:
Sex Criminals
Bonk
Plus I also just wrote a comic called B0VINE.
Sex and Cows. Weird combo.
Well, at least we know what's on your mind. Keep this guy away from a dairy, AMIRITE?
I'm reading Saga
and the Runaways. I highly recommend both.
I'm also reading a lot of Bulbapedia lately. None of these are books. You're welcome.
Small in size, but not in content. It's one to savor. I'm just getting into it : The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabether Tova Bailey
There is actually a cool Youtube trailer for the book :
I've been reading through David Allen's Getting Things Done.
When he's not making assumptions about the "normal" human mind or self-aggrandizing by talking about the high-level executives he's helped, it's a really good read about a system that's been working pretty well for my chronically disorganized self.
So, unlike you nerds with your stupid comic books, I'm actually trying to improve myself. On an unrelated note, I've also been looking through the Pathfinder Bestiary 4.
Great reviews! I'm really interested in the snail book.
DOOD (assuming that you're a dood)...I'm almost done with the former, and have been playing AD&D since '92!
Pajama Time. Over and over and over and over and.........
If you want to ensure a healthy dose of tears whenever it's mentioned later in life, be sure to include
are you trying to get me to cry @jont?
da-na-na-na-na na-na na-na PAJAMA TIME
@jont That is the creepiest book ever. I read it once to my son then immediately threw it away. Talk about teaching a lack of boundaries.
Hah, I might feel the same way now but I just have a memory of my grandma reading it to me and lots of tears.
I'm reading the dictionary. It's a little wordy, but it's a lot easier than the telephone directory (a collector's edition) and trying to keep track of its cast of thousands.
I am currently reading Wonder
and
Mrs. Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
which are both recommendations from an elementary school teacher friend. I miss the days of getting paid to read YA fiction. Now it's boring old college stuff for me.
mostly technical stuff, computer related.
For nonfiction I litstened to non fiction while commuting, I can recommend many books.
My favorite book of all times is Zen and the Art of motorcycle maintenance .
The audio book is excellent, I read the print in HS.
An interesting one is
Shadow Divers
I loved Shadow Divers. Very interesting and learned a lot about wreck diving.
I'm reading a pandering novel that's nothing more than The Hunger Games for 30-40 somethings. Total guilty pleasure, but I'm mindlessly consuming it.
Being a video game enthusiast I've heard nothing but good things about this one, it's definitely on my list.
It's great, but it's as subtle as a sledgehammer.
Also, going to Barcade tonight.
Dark Invasion, Howard Blum. Basically the start of homeland security in the WWI era. Reads like a fiction whodunit, New York cops and German terrorists. I'm both enjoying it and learning. That doesn't happen often.
Let's just all be friends on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2859144-katy-lavallee
done :)
I just picked up a few baseball books
Ten-Cent Beer Night and the 1974 Baseball Season
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JDOW8TK/
So far, there's a few bits of historical information that are interesting.
Center Field on Fire: An Umpire's Life with Pine tar Bats, Spitballs, and Corked Personalities
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A1VZ7DI
I'm looking forward to seeing the umpires perspective.
My favorite baseball book is
The Pitch that Killed
http://www.amazon.com/Pitch-That-Killed-Mike-Sowell/dp/1566635519/
There's a lot of historical tid bits that are really fascinating to me. Back in the 20's baseball owners were upset over the cost of balls. So, whenever a ball made it to the stands, an usher had to go retrieve the ball. Some fans didn't give the ball back and were arrested.
This still happens for bats. I saw a kid cry at a game Sunday when the usher took the bat he caught away from him.
Not a book but this is a thought-provoking article I recently read about bullshit jobs: http://www.salon.com/2014/06/01/help_us_thomas_piketty_the_1s_sick_and_twisted_new_scheme/?source=newsletter&utm_source=hackernewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=working
Thanks for the link. I found it very interesting.
Fantastic article, and I'm just happy to have found someone else who read it! The links were very good too.
This is great. Krasznahorkai is new to me, but already he is like an old friend.
http://wapo.st/1g47Faq
"Carrots and Sticks Don't Work" ...excellent for those in Mgmt.
Listening to "Gone Girl" on my ipod during my commute, and reading "Into the Wild" at home.
Oooh - another audio commuter! "Gone Girl" was better in audiobook format than in print.
I'm reading Gone Girl in print now - wish I had known that sooner!
Re-"reading" "Code Name: Verity" via Audible. This is the best audiobook I've ever heard.
Also reading "American Gods". That book absolutely defies categorization.
I just added Verity to my audible wishlist. Thanks for the recommendation. :-)
I'm in the middle of American Gods now; now I know why people were so excited when it came out.
I read American Gods on my last vacation. I have Good Omens in my stack to take on vacation this year. I was pretty underwhelmed with AG.
@fait When I drove from California to Texas in 2 days I knew I should get an audio book for the ~22 hours I'd be on the road.
I had heard of American Gods and was always interested in Gaiman but never read him. I knew it was long enough and is actually in a way about road trips. Gaiman wrote it after traveling all around the US for a few years (as I think it mentions in the foreword).
I'm curious to hear what you think about it. I was really really loving it at first, but it kind of lost its way and started meandering towards the middle and the pace just died. It had such a great set up followed by hours of absolutely nothing happening which caused me to give up. I'll finish it some day.
It was a reminder that abridged versions exist for a reason.
I think I liked it. If this makes any sense at all, the farther I get away from it, the more I like it. It did get long 2/3 of the way in.
Re-reading GOT, almost done with Dances of Dragons. I have a veritable slew of e-books waiting for me, so I'll have to think about it. Recent additions to the pile: Long Mars, Unexpected Stories, Spiderstalk, the Serpent of Venice and The Drayton Chronicles.
Finally picking up Fahrenheit 451, and I'm loving it so far.
Going through my extensive collection of Louis L'amour westerns. They're quick reads and good fun. Currently on The Daybreakers
It's interesting that I saw this thread...I was taking a pic of some books that I suggested that a friend of mine read (bios about Mercedes-Benz), and I looked at the other books in my library, thinking that I've only actually read a few of them.
Time to get cracking on them...not sure what I'll start with, but I'll figure it out. Been going through Rework, which was written by the guys that started 37signals (my favourite PM system).
Rework is solid, and an easy read....my favorite
Just finished The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling). Enjoyed it. Reviews of the next one say it's even better.