My reading's been a little off lately. I'm trying to get back into 'Dead Like You' by Peter James.

A fascinating look at a real life sociopath.

I'm always looking for new reading material to study more about sociopathy (was married to one, didn't realize it, now want to know everything about it, lol).

My current reading: Fundamentals of Social Psychology, Canadian edition, for my elective sociology course. Yeah, when I'm in school, I don't read much other than textbooks, I just don't have time.

Oh and can't forget my other course textbook: Probability and Statistics II: Volume 2. Fascinating read (not ).

"The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World" by Jay Winik

"Wooden: A Coaches Life" by Seth Davis

"Homer & Langley" by E.L. Doctorow

(I've never been able to read just one book at a time.)

I usually reserve Florida/tropical books for the winter months, but with this climate change shit, all bets are off.

Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century, is the subtitle.

Really a summary of German cultural and intellectual history. If you can call 880 pages a summary.

Watson is a British germanophile who writes quite well. Taking it slow but have made it thru 500 pages. Coming up on WWI. WWII is described as a race between our German scientists and Germany's.

Favorite line so far: Orchestral music is the music of invisible feeling. The passages on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche were great, not to mention Marx. The sum total of everything that came of Germany pre-Hitler is stunning, from the Reformation to Communism to breakthroughs in most every physical science, philosophy and of course psychology. Not to mention literature and music. Watson's larger point is that the horrors of Hitler produced a terminally stunted view of Germany, to the detriment of anyone who wants to understand its full and defining impact on the modern world.

How to Retire the Cheapskate Way: The Ultimate Cheapskate's Guide to a Better, Earlier, Happier Retirement by Jeff Yeager

We're not getting any younger here And there's no way we'll have a million dollars in the bank before we die. So we're down-sizing and simplifying.

I'm about 80 or so issues in (out of 127)... Good stuff...

I read one of those Year's Best Science Fiction collections awhile back. 21st Edition, I think. Also, good stuff.

I don't quite have every word memorized yet. Currently on Soul Music.

Read the Divergent series yesterday. Good writing, but the ending pissed me off.

by Todd Gitlin, a founding member of the SDS. Pretty heavy...skipping thru some of it...

Berlin at War, and Go Down Together (about Bonnie & Clyde), and Japan 1941 by Eri Hotta.

I'm an undisciplined reader. So, those and several others, mostly history, as catch my fancy.

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am now into "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Think Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" will be next.

Just finished 'Ham on Rye'. My first Bukowski novel. 'Post Office' is next.
How did I miss this writer?

Good to Great, by Jim Collins.

It's my "summer" novel.

And I've just started reading Ken Follett's World Without End (the follow-up to The Pillars of the Earth).