I don't even want to talk about how much thought went into shooting this book. I'm not kidding. I shot it too many times in too many settings, and now I don't even care. Finally I just checked the lighting and called it. You even get a complimentary inexplicable vacuum in the background.
The point of this one is this: I used to be nearly religious about updating my Read Books list. Upon completion of any book, I'd add it to the list. If I didn't finish it for whatever reason, its title sat in waiting until I could legitimately call it Read. I don't know why, but it was important.
But then Tiberius (also pictured, big surprise)... accidentally relieved himself on Reading Lolita in Tehran when I was ten pages from its end, and then for reasons I won't list here (out of concern for time, not privacy) I held off on the epilogue of American Gods for several months. Then I worked on Recommendeds, then a re-read jag, and with the two unfinished books, I was mildly stressed/confused about the List.
Anyway. I'll cut discussion of the List to a minimum, because I get the idea I'm not making much sense. But this is what I'm reading now, and it's a worthy bit of history, I think.
And for posterity: other books I've read since I updated the sidebar (which used to reflect my list):
Reading Lolita in Tehran (Azar Nafisi) (minus ten pages)
American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
The Passage (Justin Cronin)
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Siddhartha Mukhurjee) (READ IT)
Diary (Palahniuk)
Fight Club (Palahniuk)
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 (Eggers/SUFJAN)
How We Are Hungry (minus a chapter) (Eggers)
And then The Devil in the White City? Pretty sure there are some missing pieces... And we'll all pretend that doesn't bother me at all.
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