Another one down

Well, I skipped ahead. Friday night, on my way to Denver, I cracked open Colson Whitehead's "Apex Hides The Hurt"; I finished it this morning on the flight back to Seattle. It's a little gem about a corporate brander dispatched to a small town to help settle a dispute over the town's new name. It's funny and powerful; I dug it. My only other exposure to him was listening to his audiobook "The Colossus of New York City," which I'd recommend to anyone who is moved by their surroundings.

As of this morning I am officially on Librarything's 50 book challenge. Feel free to join me there.

47.25 to go

Everyone out there has probably been wondering how my reading of fifty books this year is going. And they all probably think I've been slacking since I haven't posted any updates. Well, I haven't been slacking.

Tomorrow at lunch I will be finishing Edmund Wilson's magnum opus "To The Finland Station." It's a history book about writing history; it's an account of revolutions in Europe and Russia; it was hard to read because he glossed over events that my ill-educated ass hardly even knows occurred. However, I feel like it was kind of a rite of passage. I can read a little Marx, Engels, Trotsky, Babeuf, Bakunin, or LaSalle and have at least had a little exposure.

I'm stalled at the start of part five of Anna Karenina but will be continuing on tomorrow evening. Up next: Colson Whitehead's "Apex Hides the Hurt" in the fiction department and "An All-Consuming Century" by Gary Cross as nonfiction.

The fifty book challenge has grown to two members strong. Check out Wayne's blog here for his reading list. Also, if you're a member of LibraryThing you may have received their recent email about trying to get through fifty this year as well. I'm on the site but I have yet to officially join their challenge.