i've been splurging on books. and by splurging i mean that i'm purchasing them online for ridiculously low prices, but buying a lot of them. i have always been a reader. i think i am going to start keeping track of the books that i read, simply because there was that huge fuss made last year about how the average american reads four books a year, and they're probably all beach reads anyhow. seriously, i read probably four books a month, depending on the books involved (meaning how long they are, whether or not i am re-reading them, how many books i am reading at the same time, and how interested i am in them.)

so. so far in 2008, i have read moo and a thousand acres by jane smiley.
i am currently reading after the promises, which is about new orleans during lyndon johnson's pursuit of the great society.
i'm trying very hard to read dying to win: the strategic logic of suicide terrorism. i think i may in fact just skip the introductory chapter and go straight to the meat of the study, because i am not digging the ridiculously plodding nature of his thesis introduction. seriously. the man has stated how he designed the study something like nine times in the first twenty pages.

i just ordered books on j. robert oppenheimer and superpatriotism.

i sound like a bore, huh. oh well. it makes for interesting conversations in bars.