What book are you reading at the moment? Part 2

[Doc]

It's a beautiful spring Wednesday afternoon. I'm going to grab my copy of the Hollow Lands, then head off for a couple of beers and a read, in the country.

Spring, Dancers, beer. What a great combination!

I'm (still) reading a collection of Howard Waldrop short stories, Things Will Never Be the Same: A Howard Waldrop Reader. Less exciting to most might be Modern Sociological Theory, by George Ritzer, an overview of work written mostly between 1930 and 1980.

[Dead-Air]

I've read a book about that period, DA. It was a pretty good tome entitled Our Band Could Be Your Life. For myself, I'm finishing off Fabulous Harbors tonight.

Yeah, I read that one too. Some serious inaccuracies to be found in it though, like calling the pride of Tacoma Girl Trouble and "Olympia Band"! I was there for enough of the stuff contained in that book to know when he was pretending to know more than he really did. Still a good read though.

[johneffay]

Hey Pietro, synchronicity! I too am currently rereading The Hollow Lands.

[Doc]

But does your re-read also involve beer and a trip to the country? If those were required elements, I can guess what would be the winner of the next Moorcock cup.

[johneffay]

I don't have to make a trip to the country: I live there. Usually it's pretty cool, although it wasn't so much fun this morning when the peacocks in the wood we live next to started squawking at 5:45.

As for beer: most things I do involve it at some point...

Still reading The Hollow Lands, but today I will be mostly reading Frege on formal logic. I'll need a good dose of Mike in the evening to cheer me up!

[Doc]

Still reading The Hollow Lands, but today I will be mostly reading Frege on formal logic. I'll need a good dose of Mike in the evening to cheer me up!

Perhaps this should be a question for a new thread:

Do you find that fiction helps you unplug after reading academic work?

Some of my students have asked me through the years how I read for pleasure after I read so much for my academic life. I suppose some of them cannot understand that they are remarkably different pursuits, since fewer and fewer of them read for pleasure. Regardless, I find that I sometimes need the catharsis of reading fiction after academic heavy lifting.

[thingfish]

As for beer: most things I do involve it at some point...

Mmmm funny you should say that.......

[Governor of Rowe Island]

Still reading The Hollow Lands, but today I will be mostly reading Frege on formal logic. I'll need a good dose of Mike in the evening to cheer me up!

Perhaps this should be a question for a new thread:

Do you find that fiction helps you unplug after reading academic work?

Some of my students have asked me through the years how I read for pleasure after I read so much for my academic life. I suppose some of them cannot understand that they are remarkably different pursuits, since fewer and fewer of them read for pleasure. Regardless, I find that I sometimes need the catharsis of reading fiction after academic heavy lifting.

I don't read academic work but I do read a lot of non-fiction, mostly histories or accounts of this and that. I find I need a break every now and then, and fiction supplies that.

[johneffay]

Some of my students have asked me through the years how I read for pleasure after I read so much for my academic life.

The majority of the material I read for my academic life gives me as much pleasure as reading fiction. However, I do find that I read different stuff at different times of day. I like to read in bed: at night it could only be fiction, but first thing in the morning I reach for my notebook and something complicated. Of course, this might just be an excuse for not getting up by making out that I am doing something useful...

[Kevin McCabe]

Finished Fabulous Harbors, starting War Among The Angels.

[DeepFixer]

Soldier, Ask Not by Gordon R. Dickson and Viriconium by M. John Harrison

Michael John Harrison . . .Michael John Moorock

Two great authors with the same names . . .

Coincidence . . . . . .mmmmm, probably . . .

[David Mosley]

You never see them in the same room together do you?

[SERPNTA1267]

I'm in the middle of rereading The Black Corridor. In a weird way, Ryan's loneliness really hits home.

[thingfish]

Brilliant book the Black Corridor is Serpnta,i know what you mean.
Im away to start The Time of the Eye by Harlan Ellison.

[UncleDes]

[QUOTE=Doc;157749]

Perhaps this should be a question for a new thread:

Do you find that fiction helps you unplug after reading academic work?

It certainly takes me well away from my workaholic life.

Des