Reading Ravenously

Posted on February 27th, 2007 in Customary Drivel by Deas

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again - nothing helps your reading life better than moving to a rural island in the middle of the Japanese Seto Inland Sea. Seriously. So, I killed off The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, which was good but which had a weak ending, and will likely finish up 問題な日本語 before too long. It left me thinking…I have polished off almost all of the books immediately available to me. Most of them were read for no other reason than that they were available and I had free time to kill. I think I may need to put in an Amazon order, or try to find a used English bookstore somewhere. Anyway, looks like things will be quieting down on the reading front until I can get my grubby thumbs on some more pages. Here are some books I’d fancy reading this year.

Fun books:
State of Fear, and Next by Michael Crichton
The Solomon Key by Dan Brown (scant info available here)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Thinking books:
The Essential Kierkegaard
Letters & Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics

Any other recommendations from you folks? Anyone know of a second hand book shop in Ehime Prefecture? Ho-hum. Two boring posts in one day. What shall I do? Can’t make that a habit. :-(

Please Lie

Posted on February 27th, 2007 in Customary Drivel by Deas
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Please lie and tell Technorati I’m a favorite of yours, add me to your blogroll, and feel free to link to any and all posts that strike your fancy. I’m not looking for the attention that comes with a YouTube deluge, though. :-) Just some more folks interested in the random stuff I talk about.

You might have noticed that I put a small link Add to Technorati Favorites on the bottom right-hand side of the site, in the Site Meta section. It’s a link to Technorati which will place me in your favorites. Everyone in my blogroll has been favorited by me. I added them in manually. I recommend claiming your blog (if you haven’t) and setting up ping stuff. Anyhoo. Just thought I’d put out a shameless plug for myself. See, world? I’m not lame! (Ok, I am. But not lame enough to stay ranked as 1,204,877th for the rest of this blog’s life.) Cheers.