The Other Stack
I've previously talked about the stack of CDs waiting to be played so I thought it was time I mentioned the other stack: books to read.
Right now I'm half-way through Mankell's Before the Frost, and next in the fiction line is Fight Club which has been on the must-read list for ages.
In terms of non-fiction there's the seminal (but somehow unread until now) Design of Everyday Things which I started before I got distracted by Mankell. Further down is a copy of Freakonomics and also IDEO's Art of Innovation. And in case you somehow failed to notice my fascination with architecture, the copy of de Botton's The Architecture of Happiness should give it away. That one was a birthday present that I'm really looking forward to reading. I think it'll jump the queue and end up next in line.
Lastly, there's a hardback illustrated copy of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything which I flick through when I don't feel like reading something else.
I'm always up for suggestions... What books are in your stack right now?
Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 and filed under Life.
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In my half read pile: Fiction = The Line of Beauty (Hollingworth), Still Life and Woodpecker (Robbins), Blind Willow Sleeping Woman (Murakami); Non Fiction = The Nine Parts of Desire, Freakonomics, Why Buildings Fall Down, Murakami and the Music of Words. Keep us posted on your progress with de Botton's ...Happiness.
Posted by: n on July 11, 2006
At the moment I'm just finishing up Catch-22.
Posted by: Jesse on July 12, 2006
How very odd. I'm posting a list of my to-be-read books today. Great minds!
Posted by: Krissy on July 12, 2006
Si, you must read fight club, I tend regard it as a bit of a sacred text at times.
Posted by: Chris on July 12, 2006
