Books are the Most Difficult

I am an information junkie. I absolutely love reading and will have 4 or 5 'reads' going at once. Right now it's In Defense of Food, the current issues of CA and Atlantic, and 2 textbooks for work (these I am 'previewing' and doesn't include the 2 textbooks that I'm currently using). On my list for the restroom is an article in the new Time about grass-fed beef.

Interestingly enough, I've pretty much given up on newscasts. I used to watch CNN every day over lunch - can't really tolerate too much of that these days (seriously, I try to watch... sometimes it is a matter of seconds before I just flip it off again). We don't get the local paper anymore, either. That would usually cover about an hour of my evening. Most of what the paper had was AP news that I'd already read that morning on my iGoogle newspage. The rest of the local news - well, I'll hear about that somehow anyway. Don't really need to go looking for it, especially when the morning radio guys will 'fill you in'.

I love radio, too - NPR News, Coast to Coast AM. (enough said about that)

Anyway - the books are from my bedside cabinet: The Grisham book was pretty good as Grisham goes... There was a time when something from John Grisham was always at my bedside. The Robbins book was a gift and a lively read. It reminded me of Robert Ludlum's style. The book McTeague was hard to get used to the writing style, but once in it - had a delightfully flawed protagonist. I never 'read' the audio books... Breakpoint was pretty good - Clarke should keep writing fiction as he's bound to get better at it. The bottom two were textbooks that I picked up from the bottom of a sale bin in a used bookstore in Canyon, TX. They were both scrambled last minute purchases on the way to the checkout. I didn't get the chance to look over them too well from simply being rushed and the fact that the total for both books was 75¢. They were not at all what I expected.

I wish all my disappointments only cost me 75¢.

~ un-collecting dad