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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
My Summer Reading Selectionz
I've got the summer reading bee in my bonnet. I hear about it everywhere, Humzoo, NPR, at work...
So I have decided to share my summer reading collection so far. There was a point where I was in the middle of about 3 different books at once (America: The Book, Wicked and War of the Worlds), but I think I am all caught up and ready to start into this stack.
I have collected these books from Amazon.com over the past few months, and this morning, I started Devil in the White City, which sounds pretty awesome so far.
I just finished The Black Dahlia on Sunday night. It was a pretty cool book, although extremely graphic. Now that I've finished it though, I find myself wishing it wasn't over, and I could read more about it. So I guess it was a pretty good book. There was this new section at the end that was written since the movie came out, and it was basically the author talking about his inspiration for the book. It pretty much proved that the guy is a total nut job, which makes his books awesome. (Same guy who wrote LA Confidential).
Since I still had the " book noir" craving after reading Dahlia, I started on Devil in the White City today.
So, I hope I can get through all these books and more this summer. I can't wait to start!
READ ON, HUMZOOERS!
My Summer Reading Selectionz
I've got the summer reading bee in my bonnet. I hear about it everywhere, Humzoo, NPR, at work...
So I have decided to share my summer reading collection so far. There was a point where I was in the middle of about 3 different books at once (America: The Book, Wicked and War of the Worlds), but I think I am all caught up and ready to start into this stack.
I have collected these books from Amazon.com over the past few months, and this morning, I started Devil in the White City, which sounds pretty awesome so far.
I just finished The Black Dahlia on Sunday night. It was a pretty cool book, although extremely graphic. Now that I've finished it though, I find myself wishing it wasn't over, and I could read more about it. So I guess it was a pretty good book. There was this new section at the end that was written since the movie came out, and it was basically the author talking about his inspiration for the book. It pretty much proved that the guy is a total nut job, which makes his books awesome. (Same guy who wrote LA Confidential).
Since I still had the " book noir" craving after reading Dahlia, I started on Devil in the White City today.
So, I hope I can get through all these books and more this summer. I can't wait to start!
READ ON, HUMZOOERS!
I have not read Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius although I am curious what you think of it. I have read another of his called You Shall Know Our Velocity and loved it....hilarious.
-Brian
And Brian/Carrie -- in college we tried an experiment eating green eggs and ham and blue milk, among other things. Eating green and blue things is definitely challenging... we just aren't used to so there is a gut-level "ewww" reaction.