Focus!

As I noted, I'm making progress on catching up on my reading (a book a week is a lot for someone who watches as much TV and movies, plays as much sports and video games, and likes to hang out as much as I do. Oh yeah, and that whole 'job' thing. And the whole 'job search' thing. Woe is me. Drat, bebother...You get the idea.)

Though a lot of the progress is invisible, since I have the stupid habit of starting a book, reading a bit, starting another, reading a bit, starting a book, etc...

To give an idea, here's the list of titles I have currently open to one extent or another (not to count the two I've finished, but haven't gotten around to posting about yet)

• "Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky
• "Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs" by Chuck Klosterman
• "The Left Hand of God" by Michael Lerner
• "The Republican War On Science"
• "Soul of the Samurai" by Thomas Cleary
• "The Sling and the Stone"
• "Cobra II" by Michael Gordon
• "A Feast for Crows" by George R.R. Martin
• "A History of Warfare" by John Keegan
• "American Theocracy" by Kevin Phillips
• "A Death in Belmont" by Sebastian Junger
• "To Hate Like This Is to be Forever Happy: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry" by Will Blythe

And then there are those just on 'top' of the pile (or en route)

• "Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich" by Kevin Phillips
• "A Conflict of Visions" by Thomas Sowell
• "The Demon-Haunted World" by Carl Sagan
• "Crashing the Gates" by Kos
• "How Would a Patriot Act?" by Glenn Greenwald
• "Blink" & "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
• "Blue Blood: Duke-Carolina: Inside the Most Storied Rivalry in College Hoops by Art Chansky

Not to mention any old title that pings my interest on my next pass through B&N or Borders.

So, apparently, I've got some work to do...