For the time being at least, WAYR will be posted on Wednesday mornings.
For those who are new ... we discuss books. I list what I'm reading, and people comment with what they're reading. Sometimes a post a special edition on a particular genre or topic.
Just the usual list this week
cfk has Bookflurries on Wednesday nights, with links to lots of other diaries about books and reading on daily Kos.
sarahnity has Books by kossacks on Tuesdays.
If you like to trade books, try bookmooch
Just finished
Cat Chaser by Elmore Leonard. Crime novel set in Florida. I've just started it.
Now reading:
Godel, Escher, Bach - the going is getting heavy, the crowds are getting scarce, but I keep plugging away, every Sunday morning. This week, we have a guest host: joffan.
The Enlightenment: An anthology by Peter Gay. I found this at a used book stand near me. A fascinating period.
Bozo Sapiens: Why to err is human by Ellen and Michael Kaplan. The authors, one of whom (Ellen) is a friend, sent this to me. This is wonderful stuff, full of humor and insight into why we make mistakes. Also, the jacket photo shows one author (Ellen) pushing the other in a baby carriage (she's his mom). In fact, you can get a good sense of the book from the cover (I KNOW I KNOW) ... but ... the title, the subtitle, the cover picture (a banana skin) and the jacket photo together give me the following impressions:
1) The authors are having fun. When the authors have fun writing, I usually have fun reading.
2) The authors have a sense of humor
3) The authors assume you will get the joke. Not on some super-high, Umberto Eco-like level, but that you will know "to err is human" and "bozo sapiens" and similar levels (or perhaps slightly higher level) things throughout the book
Before the Golden Age ed. by Isaac Asimov. Short SF stories from the 1930s.
Gaming the vote: Why elections aren't fair and what we can do about it by William Poundstone. About different ways of voting. More on this in Morning Feature next Tuesday.