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autographedcat) wrote2004-02-27 08:17 pm
autographedcat) wrote2004-02-27 08:17 pm
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Reading list
So, I'm thinking that if I actually start talking about the books I'm reading, it'll encourage me to spend more time reading them. I used to read a lot, but in recent years I've started spending too much time in front of the computer and not enough time with a book in my hand. Time to fix that.
Currently, I'm in the middle of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, which is one of the most entertaining general overviews of science and the history of science that I've ever come across. I really enjoy a genre of non-fiction that I call "anecdotal history", by which I mean "history told in a nonfiction but entertaining manner". I also have Kenneth Davis's "Don't Know Much About History", which I'd read before but only recently reacquired.
Last week, I read Nerve.com's Guide to Sexual Etiquette, which was a marvelously informative book with a droll style. It was slightly different in focus from The Bride Wore Black Leather (And He Looked Fabulous), which is a different sex etiquette book focusing more on altsex than more usual fare. And I'm reading Dan Savage's Savage Love in pieces. As a collection of columns, its easy to read in small pieces. (What I sometimes refer to as a "bathroom book").
So, what are YOU reading right now?
Currently, I'm in the middle of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, which is one of the most entertaining general overviews of science and the history of science that I've ever come across. I really enjoy a genre of non-fiction that I call "anecdotal history", by which I mean "history told in a nonfiction but entertaining manner". I also have Kenneth Davis's "Don't Know Much About History", which I'd read before but only recently reacquired.
Last week, I read Nerve.com's Guide to Sexual Etiquette, which was a marvelously informative book with a droll style. It was slightly different in focus from The Bride Wore Black Leather (And He Looked Fabulous), which is a different sex etiquette book focusing more on altsex than more usual fare. And I'm reading Dan Savage's Savage Love in pieces. As a collection of columns, its easy to read in small pieces. (What I sometimes refer to as a "bathroom book").
So, what are YOU reading right now?
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You do know there are seven anthologies, right? I thought that the seventh pretty much wrapped everything up with a bow on it.
(If you didn't know there were 7, don't feel bad; I spent years convinced there were only three...)
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Leslie Fish and Dirty Harry together still boggles me.