Is it that time of the year again? =) Since the semi-annual Zornlist Summer Reading List thread hasn't started,
I love these lists because even though I've been in the book business 15 years and a constant reader twice that long there's always something interesting I've never heard about. So: currently reading: Orson Welles Interviews Sienkiewicz - Quo Vadis Javier Marias - When I Was Mortal will read in the next couple of months: Jiminez - Caesar Against Rome Schodt - Manga Manga Trollope - Doctor Thorne Henry James - A Life in Letters Terry Pratchett - Moving Pictures, Eric (& then I'll have read all the Discworld books) Beevor - Stalingrad Brewer - Pleasures of the Imagination (18th cent. English culture) & I may finally get around to Simmons' Hyperion books and the recent Mingus and Bing Crosby bios but don't know if that'll happen; also keep wanting to read more Iain Sinclair but they've been checked out for ages comics: Alan Moore - Top 10 Book Two & Promethea Book One, Lafler - Bughouse, Robinson - Box Office Poison, Miller - Daredevil Visionaries 1, Steranko - Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD, Gerber - Essential Howard the Duck, Bendis - Powers Vol 2, more Walt Kelly and that new Krazy Kat collection I always find a bunch of interesting-looking stuff in the library that I bring home; if the first couple of chapters aren't impossibly dull I read the whole thing. Currently in the stack: Simoons - Eat Not This Flesh (about food taboos), Allen - Doubt's Boundless Sea (about Renaissance atheists/skeptics), Volo - Daily Life in the Age of Sail, Richardson - Georges Bataille (out of an entire shelf of English-language books about Bataille the only one that looked remotely like a biography; are there any bios?), Costen - The Cathars & the Albigensian Crusade, Etherington - Rider Haggard, & after reading a Guy Debord bio I'm hoping to re-read Machiavelli (& possibly Machiavelli In Hell which has been by my bed for a couple of years) and get to Gracian and the Sophists. Or then again I may just read comic books for a few weeks.... ----------------------------- Violinist Bauer-Lechner on Mahler: "The first thing he composed on paper at the age of six was a polka, to which he added a funeral march as an introduction." The Funhouse Journal http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/blog/journal.htm