A sample of my recent music and reading. An album links to its review on All Music; a book to its customer reviews on Amazon.
Recent Albums:
- Pete Yorn — Back & Forth
- Green Day — 21st Century Breakdown
- The Decemberists — The Hazards of Love
- Bob Dylan — Together Through Life
- Jack’s Mannequin — The Glass Passenger
- Elbow — Leaders of the Free World
- Sun Kil Moon — April
- The National — Alligator
- Shivaree — I Oughta Give You A Shot in the Head for Making Me Live in This Dump
- The Mountain Goats — Tallahassee
- Fleet Foxes — Sun Giant
- Cloud Cult — Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)
Recent Books:
- Benjamin Franklin — Autobiography
- Edward J. Larson — A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign
- James L. Swanson — Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase For Lincoln’s Killer
- Laurence Bergreen — Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
- Sumbul Ali-Karamali — The Muslim Next Door: The Qur’an, the Media, and that Veil Thing
- Andy Gill & Kevin Odegard — A Simple Twist of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood on the Tracks
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle — A Study in Scarlet; The Sign of Four; The Hound of the Baskervilles; The Valley of Fear
- Harold Sinclair — The Horse Soldiers: A Novel of the Civil War
- Gontran de Poncins — Kabloona
- Jared Diamond — Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
- Barbara Tuchman — The Guns of August
- Nathaniel Philbrick — In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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