What are you reading?

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Fernando Pessoa: The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive.

the road to Wigan pier - George Orwell

Governing The Firm: Workers' Control In Theory And Practice, by Gregory K. Dow, 2003

Villa and Zapata: A Biography of the Mexican Revolution
by F.J. McLynn

Re-reading The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play by Ben Watson. Part scintillating, part utterly preposterous tome on the life and works of Frank Zappa.

John Updike - My Fathers Tears

Non-fiction: Ivan Illich Limits to Medicine: Medical nemesis

Fiction: Kazuo Ishiguro The Unconsoled

I am hoping to wait for my summer holiday to read Alex Ross The Rest is Noise but think I will probably get to it before then...

Karen Blixen: Anecdotes of Destiny

I was reading Jack London - Call of the wild until I lost my bag with the book in it after too many beers last night 🙁

Next up is The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.

Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson

Just started it.

Originally posted by Palynka
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson

Just started it.

This is an important book. Let me know what you think of it.

Just finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

The Iron Tracks - Aharon Appelfeld

Originally posted by Mimor
Just finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

I liked that one.

Originally posted by cheshirecatstevens
I liked that one.

Excellent book, I thought. Definitely worth a re-read.