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I look at my stack of books and I see Cold Days, American Gods, Clash of Kings, and I know that the second I finish one of them, the rest of all y’all have a list of books for me to put under the yet unfinished stack and I remember one of the driving dynamics behind switching to reading mostly reference materials.

And we’re not even talking about finding four carved out hours within which to place a viewing of The Hobbit.

So… what are you reading and/or watching?

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  2. American Gods rides high on my list of favorite books. Liked tAnansi Boys even better, and I hear Gaimon’s got a book story on Shadow growing in his dark recesses.

    He’s a difficult creation, Shadow. He doesn’t act, he reacts in American Gods. He begins to see the need to take action in Anansi Boys. Maybe he’ll fully realize himself in what will be.

        • huh. Maybe I’ve twisted things, Tod; we’er getting a heavy snow (a foot already!) and weather makes havoc with my brain function.* Wikipedia tells me I’ve mixed Charlie/Spider/Shadow into a new brew, never before seen on the page. Yet I clearly had it in my mind that Shadow is Mr. Nancy’s son in the book.

          It’s on the shelf in the library, I’ll go move it to the bedside table for re-reading, I think. Been a while, though it seems like it was just published last week.

          *Constant reminder of how dysfunctional the brain can become causes great consternation in me. I used to feel confident in my mental acuity. Now, I constantly question. It would be easiest to pull the covers over my head and never speak again. I resist; it’s always okay to prod me on the erratic synapses.

  3. Almost done with A Dance with Dragons then I need to figure out what to read next. recommendations welcomed. Tomorrow morning going to the matinee of The Hobbit.

    • Cloud Atlas. Then you’ll be in a position to tell whether the movie was a disastrophe, or a clusterfiasco!

      (Great book, BTW).

      • I’m mid-way through Cloud Atlas; moved on from the Doctor and the messenger and the slave to the second section. The jump made it easy to set aside, thank you for the reminder to pick it back up again.

      • Good suggestion Glyph unfortunately all 19 copies are checked out at the library

  4. I confess I haven’t gotten very far with Blacktone’s commentaries (begun last week). I probably won’t get much further.

    On the dock for this week and next week:
    William James, Varieties of Religious Experience
    Rutherford, London: A Novel

  6. I’m reading a book called “Remainder” that Chris mentioned in comments. It’s about a guy who’s recovering from a head injury and emerges from a coma without any memory or motor skills. He basically learns to function again, and it’s this learning to function that presents the tension in the book: how much of what we all think of as authentic is simply learned behavior.

    At least, I think that’s what it’s about.

  7. Just finished re-reading No Country for Old Men.

    On-going reading is Richard Rhodes monumental The Making of the Atomic Bomb.

    • No Country for Old Men is one of the few books where, even though it’s very good, I enjoyed the film more. (The Godfather is in a differnt category, being a great film and a pretty trashy book.)

      The Rhodes is amazing, as is his sequel about the H-Bomb.

      • The Cohens did a great job with the film. It’s a masterpiece.

        The Rhodes sequel is also on my list, probably after I read his Twilight of the Bombs, though.

        And my co-teacher for our Nuclear Weapons and Power class cadged our Dean into paying Rhodes to come talk to our class and also give a public talk at our college this March. I’m very excited about that.

      • No Country for Old Men is one of the few books where, even though it’s very good, I enjoyed the film more.

        I thought the book was outstanding. I thought the movie was even better! (Did you notice that there’s no soundtrack to that movie?)

        That hasn’t happened very often for me. Only a handful of times. Sophie’s Choice comes to mind as a truly phenomenal book that I think was even better story on screen. Most recently, I think Hunger Games was a better movie, too. But I’m of a mind that it was also a really great book!

  9. I’ve been reading a crapload of comics; otherwise, I just started Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate series (the first one is _Soulless_) and it is a hoot – particularly if one is familiar with the many many genres whose conventions are being sent-up-while-simultaneously-adhered-to.

    Rewatching Freaks and Geeks.

    • My son just finished watching Freaks and Geeks for the first time, because a lot of his favorite comedians are in it (Seth Rogan, Jason Segal, and a few I’d never heard of.) He enjoyed Joe Flaherty too, so I’ll have to see if I can dig up some SCTV for him.

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