Bibliophilia

[saavedra77]

Comparing notes with verbicide:

What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm   You're probably in the final stages of a Ph.D. or otherwise finding a way to make your living out of reading. You are one of the literati. Other people's grammatical mistakes make you insane.
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[pescana.livejournal.com]

Hee - guess how I answered that particular question?! Currently reading through And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts, Working with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Coleman, and The Silver Branch by Patricia Kenneally (which isn't gripping me, but I wanted something in the magical otherworldy realm). The book in my work bag is Adventures in Wine edited by Thom Elkjer - I got that at the SPL book sale. It's good bus reading - short essays.

How about you?

[saavedra77.livejournal.com]

And the Band Played On is one of those books I've been meaning to get around to for some time ...

Mainly, I'm reading Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club: listening to an NPR interview with the author made me curious to delve a little deper than the movie's MPD/anarchy themes. It's pretty hair-raising, and not altogether dissimilar from the film (thus far), but definitely a page-turner.

I'm simultaneously making my way (rather more slowly) through Thomas Ricks' Fiasco, Colin Wells' Sailing from Byzantium, Gabriel Garcia Marquez' Of Love and Other Demons, Jose Saramago's The Stone Raft, Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, and Mario Vargas Llosa's Feast of the Goat.

I'm not sure that I'm going to make it all the way through Fiasco, though: the material is too familiar, too depressing. I got a lot more out of David Corn and Michael Isikoff's Hubris, which I just finished.

I'm trying to get back in the habit of reading more fiction, after a long time spent mostly just current affairs and history--hence the Palahniuk, Garcia Marquez, Saramago, McCarthy, and Vargas Llosa.