I forgot to post my reading log ( Read more... )

I didn't do a great job of choosing recreational reading in 2013. I've spent too much time grazing at the genre fiction buffet, and though I read some good SF, I feel I've shuffled past the point of diminishing returns. I'll read more greens with my sweets in 2014 ( Read more... )

The best book I read in 2012 was the first one: Melville's The Confidence Man. It's hard to believe it's by the author of Moby Dick. The Confidence Man is sardonic, ambiguously (sometimes intriguingly, sometimes humorously) moralistic, picaresque, fast-paced. It has the funniest chapter titles I've ever read. I really enjoyed Moby Dick when I ( Read more... )