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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Fair enough, but if I hear you're spending your time reading Ayn Rand or David McCullough I'm going to mutter some nasty stuff under my breath about you.
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I have been reading some fiction by foreign authors (Kevin Barry, Mieko Kawakani, Hiroko Oyamada, Audur Ava Olafsdottir), but in the history department I recently read a solid book about the Battle of Midway, Shattered Sword, more or less from the Japanese point of view, using sources that have been available to Japanese historians for a while but had not been used by US historians. I also read A Libertarian Walks Into A Bear, which Sebby and I were posting about in December, IIRC. Funny!
And keeping it real as a Slothrop, I read an appreciation of one of Pynchon's less-liked books, Vineland Reread, the existence of which I was unaware until I took my daughter to Barnes & Noble for a manga-foraging expedition.
