Reading

There's a thread in a racing forum I regularly monitor about favorite books. That's subject-specific, racing, including classics like Mark Donohue's "Unfair Advantage," and the very recent "The Art of Racing in the Rain," which my friend Murphy reviewed last fall.

I've always been a reader. I stacked up my last ten books and listed them here, in no particular order.

1. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
2. Army of Amateurs, General Benjamin F. Butler and the Army of the James, 1863-1865 - Edward G. Longacre
3. Sony Alpha DSLR, Guide to Digital SLR Photography - David Busch
4. The Glory and the Dream, A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972 - William Manchester
5. The World is Flat, a Brief History of the 21st Century - Thomas L. Friedman
6. Sea of Glory, America's Voyage of Discovery - Nathaniel Philbrick
7. The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
8. Boys of '67, From Vietnam to Iraq - Charles Jones
9. Andrew Carnegie - David Nasaw
10. Sea of Thunder, Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Champaign, 1941-1945 - Evan Thomas

In the backlog to be read:

1. The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
2. The Judas Field - Howard Bahr
3. False Economy, A Surprising Economic History of the World - Alan Beattie
4. Toly's Ghost - BS Levy
5. 2666 - Roberto Bolano
6. Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow

For tonight, however, Alabama vs. Texas in Pasadena for the BCS Championship.