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I finished reading Magical Thinking: True Stories by Augusten Burroughs Sunday afternoon. That puts me 60% of the way toward my 50 book goal for 2006. Whee!

This is the first book of his that I've read, and I adore his sarcastic, mean, ego-centric way of looking at the world. I can only hope to achieve this in my own head, let alone in my writing.

 

Now I'm reading The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl. It's good so far. I've been on a big historical fiction kick this year, and I adore Poe, so it seemed like a natural choice. I'm also reading Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond. It is taking me a while to get through it, as I find it rather dense, but it is fascinating.