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The Most Beautiful Woman In Town, by Charles Bukowski.

Birthday present from my wife. Anthology of Bukowski's short fiction, set in the theme of alcoholism, poverty, and mental illness, his stories range from the truly sad, to the hilarious, to the truly bizarre. So far, a great read.

"being mortal" by atul gawande (md) what is important toward the end of life and how to get it

Just finished tonight:
Eros and Magic in the Renaissance by Prof. Ioan Couliano.

I'm currently reading Drop Dead Healthy by my favourite author, A.J. Jacobs. He seems like he could probably be autistic, he spends entire years devoting his life to various things, one book was about him reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica (The Know It All) and another was devoting a year to living exactly as the bible says he should (The Year Of Living Biblically).

This one is about 2 years of living exactly how health programs say he should, like using noise cancelling headphones to protect his ears, running barefoot because it's natural, becoming vegan and chewing a minimum of 30 times with every bite. He's very funny.

Noise by David Hendy. Very interesting.

Just finished 2 books lately.

Alex Sinclair's Tell me no lies

my second book by this author and this one was at least as bad as the first one. How anyone can make such an exciting idea so boring is beyond me. Repetitive and boring. Never reading this author again.



Stephan Pastis: It's The End When I Say It's The End
The seventh and last Timmy Failure book.
I have loved and laughed my way through this series. As much as it is a natural end to the series, I wish there were more Timmy books in the future.

Winter by Marissa Meyer.

Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights, A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism, Ed. Patsy Stoneman (Cambridge, 2000).

The classic satire Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut.

Re Vonnegut's cynicism - did you know he joined the Army for WWII. still in USA went home for Mothers Day, his mother hanged herself that day. A week later his sister died in a car accident. A week after that his brother-in-law died in a train accident. Vonnegut decided there is no God, which he stuck to for the rest of his life. Do you think this cynicism might have coloured Slaughterhouse 5?

All That Is - James Salter

Started well. When the main character reaches middle age it gets a little dull, I'm hoping that it picks up again.

Holland, Nick, and Emily Brontë. Emily Brontë : A Life in 20 Poems. Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2018.

I'll forgive Mr Holland just this once, for quitting The Brontë Society.

Heinlein's Rolling Stone(s) and Autism in Heels and also How Write a Damn Good Novel.... and

A Dignified Exit by John Asher

The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith

"everything beautiful", teen fiction

Riley rose, a "bad girl" atheist gets tricked into Christian camp

She meets Dylan

Dylan is in a wheelchair

Dylan tried and failed to commit suicide




It's totally fascinating