Just finished Salman Rushdie's new one, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights. It's about the irruption of the irrational world of the Jinns into the modern rational world over the titular 1001 nights, and an ongoing discussion between two dead philosophers over the relative merits of reason and unreason. It's been called a masterpiece, but I don't really see it. There isn't really that much of a narrative, as some admittedly fine concepts are referenced but never really built upon (eg where a politician adopts a baby in whose presence the dishonest become physically afflicted). But it is in places interesting from a philosophical point of view, and it's drenched in references to modern fantasy fiction. Not his best work that evokes thoughts of the X-Men (that would be Midnight's Children), and it sometimes reads as if Rushdie is just indulging his imagination, but nonetheless a pretty good read.
Blue Gemini Got it autographed here at the Trussville Public Library today: https://omnireboot.com/2015/mike-jenne-blue-gemini/
Re-read a copy of 'The Late Shift'. It's interesting that a lot of the issues brought up about late-night television 20+ years ago between Leno and Letterman are the exact same problems NBC ran into with Leno and Conan. It actually makes me wish the author Bill Carter had waited to put out his second book after Leno and Letterman retired instead while they were still on the air and things were still shaking themselves out.
The Stormlight Archives #1 - The Ways of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. Another great book from Sanderson, but it'd be even better if 200-300 pages were cut. This book did not need to be 1,000+ pages.
I'm finishing up High on Arrival by MacKenzie Phillips tonight and then plan on going back to a book I started a few weeks ago.
Too horrifying to read much at a time, so, in between, I'm reading lighter things. Just finished The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo.
I forget where I was the last time I checked in. I think I was about to read Coming Home by Jack McDevitt, then decided to re-read Friday by Heinlein, because we were talking about in on another board, then I took a break from that to read Marvel Comics: The Untold Story (the sad tale of how some retarded businessmen destroyed a cultural phenomenon), and now I'm taking a break from my Friday re-read to read Coming Home, which I am about a third of the way through.
Working my way through The Dark Tower - just finished Wizard and Glass and went with The Wind Through the Keyhole next.
I think I'll read some Voyager Atonement tonight. I have a couple of books that should arrive tomorrow and will probably break into Atonement to read them.
So now I've taken a break from Coming Home while taking a break from Friday to read The Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage. Not only is there a lot of biographical information, but it's a nice look at the Chicago Renaissance and the artistic and intellectual underground of the 20s and 30s. The reason the Roaring 20s have always held such an appeal for me is because of the similarity to the 60s. I wish the next liberal renaissance would hurry up and arrive.