The Small Wave.

My latest music and reading. An album links to its page on All Music; a book to its customer reviews on Amazon (or just view my book shelf).

recent albums:

• Nine Inch Nails — The Slip
• The National — Boxer
• Spoon — Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
• The Mountain Goats — The Sunset Tree
• Zoe Keating — One Cello X 16: Natoma
• Cloud Cult — The Meaning of 8
• Headlights — Some Racing, Some Stopping
• Okkervil River — The Stage Names
• Beirut — The Flying Club Cup
• Bodies of Water — Ears Will Pop and Eyes Will Bleed
• The Magnetic Fields — Distortion
• Windmill — Puddle City Racing Lights

recent books:

• Gontran de Poncins — Kabloona 
• Neil Anderson — Partners in Grime: Escaping the Rat Race Cycling Across Canada.
• Dan Kennedy — Rock On: An Office Power Ballad.
• Sam Harris — Letter to a Christian Nation
• Gary Taubes — Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease.
• Adam Braver — Mr. Lincoln’s Wars: A Novel in Thirteen Stories
• Jared Diamond — Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
• Steve Ettlinger — Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated into What America Eats.
• Barbara Tuchman — The Guns of August
• Nathaniel Philbrick — In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
• Edward Larson — Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
• David McCullough — 1776