Junky - William Burroughs

I might start those two books soon.

Miyuki Miyabe - "Crossfire" and "Shadow Family"

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters.

La Fille qui Revait d'un Bidon d'essence et d'une Allumette (The Girl Who Dreamt About a Gas Can and a Match)-- Stieg Larsson

that's a much better title than the american translation of "the girl who played with fire"

It might be a better title but "The girl who played with fire" is true to the original title "Flickan som lekte med elden", and I like it when even the title is translated well.

OMG U GUYZ REED Y EYE DUNT UNDASTAND Y WOOD U DU DAT? DOZ KNOT MAEK SENZE

KAN WUN OV U TELLE MEA Y DIZ IZ

BRB GUNNA POSTE AHN UTUBE

I was looking at my cousins facebook profile yesterday and it said, next to reading. "NONE i HATE reading." Chair's post doesn't seem that exaggerated a form of satire in light of that.

I finished Candide, but haven't started the other stories yet. Voltaire is a bit tough going because I often feel out of the loop when he's ridiculing a figure who would have been contempary knowledge to people at the time but to me, uneducated as I am, I could barely follow it with the aid of the notes. I think I'll read Dunsany's In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales instead. I took a quick look inside and it seems just the ticket.

Have been reading quite a lot recently. Have watched very little television, and no movies at all in 2 weeks.

In the last 2 weeks I have read both Bridget Jones books, Lucky - Alice Sebold, Nobody True and The Rats - James Herbert, Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years - Sue Townsend and am currently reading Fever Pitch - Nick Hornby

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

I wanted to wait for my Kindle to read this but couldn't.

100 Years of Solitude

Pretty good. I'm already halfway through. Wish I had more to say about it, but it's hard to explain.

Goethe's Faust
Kept hearing about it. It's not bad.

Lysistrata by Aristophanes

Gave up on Fever Pitch, too footbally for me lol, haven't started anything else yet. Have about 50 books unread to choose from though.

Laura Joh Rowland - The Fire Kimono (Sano Ichiro's 13th case)

I'm pissed at the cover. Why did they have to do this?

The 1st - 12th ones looked like in that style:



Now it's like that... how ugly.



(And it's still the same publisher...)

Mathematics of DFT with Audio Applications by Julius O. Smith III

Science! If you want learn the theory of Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), read this book. It's available free online. I've read the first half of the book and have so far understood everything. I majored in digital signal processing so that shouldn't be a surprise but I never expected to understand a theory book this well. It helps that the book presents the theory more practically than the lecture slides we had at the university.

Behind The Curtain - Travels in Eastern European Football by Jonathan Wilson. I love this kind of book

Dragonball Volume 21

Taking my first tentative steps into "Swanns Way," by Marcel Proust later tonight.

"Look Me In the Eye" by John Elder Robison. I didn't know until I started it that the author is Augusten Burroughs' brother. If I had known that, I would have read it sooner. It's really good so far.

When Life Lights Up by Serdar Özkan (not very promising so far to be honest, much like Paulo Coelho whose books I can hardly stand), also Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson (always great).

freesia. i'd recomment it to anyone. amazing art-style and plot.

Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov.

I just read the short story Why I want to Fuck Ronald Reagan by J.G. Ballard.