rw wrote:
George Cleveland wrote:

I'm reading "Madness: A Brief History" by Roy Porter....

As long as we're posting reading lists, here's what's on my shelf:

Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris
The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
The Sea, John Banville
The Last Expedition (Stanley's Mad journey through the Congo), Daniel
Liebowitz and Charles Pearson

obroff: Read Casting a Spell by George Black at the beginning of the
month. History of split cane rod making in the U.S., focusing on a
small number of the best early and contemporary makers. Much better
than I had expected it to be.

More recently, I've read Packer's The Assassins' Gate and Gordon &
Trainor's Cobra II, and am now in the middle of Woodward's Plan of
Attack. I'd be most grateful if someone could please give me one good
reason why Rumsfeld shouldn't have been fired two years ago, at the
very latest....

Thanks for the head's up on Quammen's new book, George. His Song of the
Dodo is one of my favorite natural history books.

- JR