What I'm reading

It's the time of year - well, the calendar says it is - for summer reading. You wouldn't know it around here with the torrential downpours and the cold temperatures. Deeps keeps threatening to turn the heat back on.

Anyway - it's a good time to start thinking about summer reading. I just finished two back issues of the Atlantic Monthly. I even read the really long article about the New York Times and what happened with Jayson Blair (a very fascinating, if not surprising read). Now I've moved back to the realm of books. Or at least I'm trying to.

Usually by this time of the year I've got a nice long list of reading ahead of me. I'm not sure how it happened but my list has not manifested. I just started The Devil in White City which is in keeping with my history of reading the really hot thing everyone read (last year) much later....

But what comes next? Scott Von D has a few suggestions, although since I broke up with the Sopranos about 3 seasons ago I can't say I'm intrigued by all of them.

But Raymond Chandler - that's something I can get behind. I spent a few summers back reading the works of Dashiell Hammett and really enjoyed myself. I love the hard boiled detective. Which I think is why I was so fond of Frederick Brown's pulpy crime novels from last summer.

Maybe I have a summer reading list after all.

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