Earth's Children series. Now just starting on "Reunion" by Jeff Bennington. Kind of creepy in light of the school shooting earlier today.

On the Jean Auel series...I was thinking about how I read the first book as a junior in a high school Anthropology class. 26 years later I read the final book of the series (which just came out electronically) on a Kindle. Time flies. I'll miss Ayla and Jondalar. They've been here my whole adult life.

'The Hunger Games' trilogy.

original artwork. Outrageous plot, ridiculous science, loads of antique fun.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38981

"The Chase of the Golden Plate" featuring, of course, the Thinking Machine.

He's my second favorite author after Roberto Bolaño, with Nick Harkaway a close third. It's a busy reading time for me with all three having new near-1000pg. novels out in the past 3 months. Mind you, I'm still lagging a promise to myself to finish Marcel Proust's À la Recherche du Temps Perdu, Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.

I'm a lit. fic. nerd.

long work hours

Virtual Light - William Gibson
Distrust That Particular Flavor - William Gibson
The Table Comes First - Adam Gopnik
Scott Kelby's 7 Step Photoshop book

Tahiti" by Thea Atkinson...on my Kindle

and "Fart Proudly" by Benjamin Franklin...hard copy.

Gotta have something for every mood.

Taubman and Philip Ziegler's biography of King Edward VIII, the monarch who abdicated to marry the woman he loved. Both are fascinating, very insightful and very interesting and I highly recommend them both

Also skimming through Terry Anderson's fascinating memoirs as a hostage in Beirut "Den of Lions" and was very recently also skimming through Terry Waite's memoirs as a hostage in "Taken on Trust". Both very worthwhile reading and both provide a fascinating insight into the Lebanon hostage crisis in the 1980s

and as good as it was the first time ten years ago, it was far better the second time around. Davies is certainly a finalist for best English-language writer of the 20th century. Wise, witty, humane, with caustic humor and a keen eye for the delights and absurdities of the human condition.

Just started Shane O'Sullivan's "Who Killed Bobby?" Fascinating stuff.