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May 18, 2006

On My Reading List

My current location: Zurich International Airport, Pier A

One might notice that the "Reading" entry on the left-hand section of my weblog remains blank. It's not because I haven't been reading anything. It's because when I'm not travelling and busy with work, I will typically have a book by my bedside for quite a while, and the "Reading" section remains disturbingly static, implying that I am a pathetically slow reader. As a consequence, I stopped updating it. Now that I'm travelling again, I think I will return to using that section to indicate which book I'm reading at the moment. During my previous travels, I read the following books:

Dog Days by Ana Marie Cox (I saw the author give a reading from her book and blogged about it)
Things Can Only Get Better by John O'Farrell
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Baudolino by Umberto Eco

At the moment, I am reading Krakatoa by Simon Winchester. The problem with travelling is that I typically bring a lot of books with me-- along with all my travel guides, I'll bring a bunch of heavy books I've been meaning to read for pleasure. To relieve the weight of carrying them around, I will typically ship them back home when I finish them. Then I will run out of books, causing me to buy more books, which adds to the weight I'm carrying.

Posted by Dean at May 18, 2006 2:56 AM

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Nice reading choice. I had read some of them, I'll try to read the others. I will recommend "Sophie's world".

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