I've been really sticking to my vow to read more recently.

It's been a fine thing to feel like I'm not only doing something that's good for me--just sticking to my resolution for longer than a few weeks has been a pleasant achievement. I'm not exactly reading exclusively top-notch, high-quality stuff, but it's not been all junk, either. Since I really started to read again in earnest (partly thanks to my flirtation with H and the realization that I couldn't keep up the front of erudition if I didn't actively practice it more), the volume of reading has accelerated. During my time off over the holidays, I blasted through a startling volume of books and the new year has kept that pace, even as I return to work.

So... since this is a journal to some extent, here's what I've read since August (while they're still sitting on one shelf and easy to recall--well, not recall, just type):

• The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction; Gardner Dozois, ed.
• Freakonomics; Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• Postmortem; Patricia Cornwell
• The Penguin History of the World; J. M. Roberts
• The Golden Age; John C. Wright
• The Phoenix Exultant; John C. Wright
• The Golden Transcendence; John C. Wright
• The 42nd Parallel; John Dos Passos
• 1919; John Dos Passos
• The Big Money; John Dos Passos
• Angels & Demons; Dan Brown
• The Da Vinci Code; Dan Brown
• Founding Brothers; Joseph J. Ellis

CDs listened to today:

• Luciano Berio: Rendering per Orchestra
• Nine Inch Nails: The Perfect Drug
• Porno For Pyros: Pets
• Edison Denisov: Choral Varié
• The Zutons: Tired Of Hanging Around
• Anton Bruckner: The Symphonies, disks 1-2