Unfinished Business: One Man's Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things(Lee Kravitz)

The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times (Pema Chodron)

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Lynne Truss)

The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien

The Average American Marriage: A Novel (Chad Kultgen)

When They Were 22: 100 Famous People at the Turning Point in Their Lives (Brad Dunn)

At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Bill Bryson)

How to be Free (Tom Hodgkinson)

Sword and Sandal compendium

Americanah

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Karlology: What I've Learnt So Far... (Karl Pilkington)

a sci-fi book:
Wool
by Hugh Howey



WSJ article about the the book and changes in the publishing world.
Sci-Fi's Underground...

Notes from a Small Island (Bill Bryson)

the stupidest thing i'll read all day

http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/02/professionalism-and-oppression/?utm_content=buffer7a43b

The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia (Paul Theroux)

Crazy Rich Asians- Kevin Kwan.

All Who Go Do Not Return- Shulem Deen (JB may have heard the story of this local Brooklynite)

Skincare and Cosmetics Ingredient Dictionary.

I have now. Any good?

Amazing and courageous.

Dungeons and Dragons Player's Handbook 5th Edition.

The new rules have a classic feel using a modern d20 system. More balance between the crunch and role play. There is also a push back to "rulings rather than rules" for the Dungeon Master like in the 70s and 80s. They are also leaning more back to the "theater of the mind" so no need for detailed grid maps and battle mats. Wizards of the Coast is on a slow release schedule for additional books and have promised to keep the "bloat" down and to maintain balance in this edition and it appears 5th will be around till at least a few more years, but we'll see.

The book is better than previous editions laying out the rules but its still a cluster fuck at times. Reading it and having some of the "cheat sheets" you find online that were made by other players helps. It also helps to look up some of the terms for the 5th edition definitions(there is no glossary) to make things clearer. They use the terms for 170 pages before you get to the sections where they actually define them. This edition looks fun and actually makes me want to play again unlike editions 3, 3.5 and especially 4th edition.

Ugh, someone is in their first year of university. There's nothing 'classist' about requiring people to wear a collared shirt for Christ's sake. To call that oppressive, as opposed to, say, actually being oppressed, is mind bogglingly stupid and denigrates people who have really suffered and struggled.

Also all her talk about 'authenticity' seems pretty naïve and not very pomo.

Kitchen Confidential- Anthony Bourdain.

$2 at thrift shop. I've only seen his show twice and not sure if I've tried his restaurants, but Ashley Blue reccomomended it long ago. It's a fast yet visceral read. He's such a passion for food and the industry in a rock n roll way. You hear the pots and pans clanging together when you read it.

^ I agree. My Dad worked at the Rainbow Room many years ago and it was fun hearing Bourdain's stories about the place. The main story I remember my pops telling me about the place was about him getting into the elevator and seeing Johnny Carson already in there with a cigarette in his mouth and a blonde on each arm. That's show business!

Extreme Frontiers: Racing Across Canada from Newfoundland to the Rockies (Charley Boorman)

I read Bourdain years ago when it came out. The wife bought it and I usually hate those sort of books but was totally absorbed by it. Would totally recommend to anyone.

never really seen his show.

a chart of age of consent by state

Goldmine magazine. Good article on The Zombies and one on Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown. Also a short one on the Yardbirds.

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (David Sedaris)

attempting to read Infinite Jest while plastered

I love Karl. I have seen all the TV stuff and seem to mostly side with Karl and find Ricky and Steven to be pricks. It's still funny as fuck, though.

Pilkington is the best thing Gervais/Merchant ever came up with. Some of the funniest shit ever.

I am reading a novelization of the 2011 film by Bela Tarr'The Turin Horse'.

A Pocket History of the 1916 Rising: The Story of Ireland's Independence (Gallagher, Duibhir, Biggs)

Just finished John Cleese's So Anyway ...



Disappointing. He went into excruciating detail about his childhood and youth but completely left out from the Monty Python years (which is covered in another book) until the group's reunion of a couple of years ago. Nothing from the 1980s, 90s and 2000s -- about his failed marriages, A Fish Called Wanda, etc.

Any day now I plan to start
D-DAY

I turn to Goldmine magazine the most these days. Especially in the "reading room".

"The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch

The Vorrh by B. Catling

Tampa by Alissa Nutting

Just finished The Heart Of Darkness. Now starting Doctor Sleep

Color me incredulous, but I'd have expected a perpetual college commie to have already read Conrad. And bleated about its failings ad nauseum. Whoever's writing your copy has to do a whole lot better.

I'm not even in college. I'm a prole working in a mind numbly annoying shit job for slightly more than peon wages. Conrads failings? Book was fantastic. It's less about imperialism than being consumed by the void of the primal reptilian jelly in the center of our souls. ( if we have souls)

China in 10 Words - Yu Hua

The Divine Invasion - Philip K Dick
Walking to Hollywood - Will Self
The Ghost Writer - Philip Roth

Shadow & Claw - Gene Wolf

From over in the Gimp Box Brandon Irons wishes you to know he is reading 'From Under' by Bill Tyson or something.

We don't need to know what's in the box. This ain't Seven.

The Soul of the Marionette - John Gray (Nassim, he has a chapter on Philip K here you may want to check out)

Eyes of the Overworld - Jack Vance