So, lately I’ve been reading a lot. And yet, my TBR (to-be-read) shelf is still way out of hand and growing larger and wilier by the day, and so, the necessity of reading a lot of books has become, well, a necessity. What I would like to do here is share some of the books I’ve read, am reading, and will be reading. Maybe this will help me, and you, in some strange subpsychic and or metaphysicomental way. And so a list of sorts:
Recently read:
Neuromancer _ William Gibson
All the Pretty Horses _ Cormac McCarthy
The Moviegoer _ Walker Percy
Snow Country _ Yasunari Kawabata
*Tenth of December: Stories _ George Saunders (see below for asterisked items)
Infinite Jest _ David Foster Wallace
Red Country _ Joe Abercrombie
Currently reading:
Fevre Dream _ George R.R. Martin
Murphy _ Samuel Beckett
A bacon sized slice of the hog that is The TBR shelf:
The Virgin Suicides _ Jeffrey Eugenides
*The Miniature Wife: and Other Stories _ Manuel Gonzales
May We Be Forgiven _ A.M. Homes
Geek Love: Katherine Dunn
The Broom of the System _ David Foster Wallace
Storm Front _ Jim Butcher
Ghost Written _ David Mitchell
Gravity’s Rainbow _ Thomas Pynchon
So about those starred titles.
The Tenth of December is our first editions club pick of the month, which also happens to be one of the
best collections of short stories I’ve read in a long time – a long time. These stories are set in the near future (my favorite type of future) and are very satirical (satirical is my favorite type of satire). George Saunders will be here THIS MONTH <January 23> @ 5 o’clock. He will read and sign and it will be very fun. And 1dolla beers.
The Miniature Wife is a collection of short stories by new 
author Manuel Gonzales. I don’t know much about this book other than I want to read it. But it is new, came out this month, and I’m always looking for a great new author to follow.
And, don’t forget <January 23> @5!
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