Listening/Reading
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
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