At any rate, here is what I got:<\/p>\n
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Titles include:<\/p>\n
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- Ninja<\/em> by Eric Van Lustbader. Because it says Ninja<\/em> on the front and sprawling erotic thriller<\/em> on the back, which probably means lurid and not well-versed in actual martial arts.<\/li>\n
- Get Out Of I.T. While You Can<\/em> by Craig Schiefelbein, a self published book from 2007.<\/li>\n
- Tin House<\/em> magazine Volume 16, Number 3, which I can stack amongst all the other literary magazines I’ve been meaning to read when not distracted by sprawling erotic thrillers.<\/li>\n
- Acorns from an Aging Oak<\/em> by John C. Allen which looks to be some grandpa poetry for a change.<\/li>\n
- Field Stones<\/em> by Robert Kinsley, the less expensive of the two Kinsley titles they offer. The authors photograph on the back is very serious, so I’m worried they will be a bit academic. Now that I read the author bio, I see he’s the editor of a literary magazine. So.<\/li>\n
- Philosophy for Beginners<\/em> by Richard Osborne. It’s in the same series as Einstein for Beginners<\/em><\/a>, so I am sure it will be chock full of straight-up Marxist fun.<\/li>\n
- Antoine Watteau<\/em>, a Henry N. Abram monograph about said artist for browsing during football games.<\/li>\n
- Edward Hopper: A Modern Master<\/em> by Ita G. Berkow. I picked up this monograph because it was the less expensive of the two Hopper books they had, and earlier this week, I saw someone talking about how Hopper was one of their favorites, but I’ve forgotten where. But what I read on blogs continues to influence my purchasing decisions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
As I stacked the books on my to-read shelves atop other books, I thought, Man, I need to read more<\/em>. I have only been getting in an hour some nights as we handle the boys’ activities and whatnot. Of course, in a couple of years, I won’t have to keep one ear open all night for the boys, so I will have time for projects and reading and whatnot. And I will be both happy and sad.<\/p>\n
THIS JUST IN: When I mentioned to my beautiful wife I bought a sprawling erotic thriller, she laughed. But when I mentioned the name Lustbader<\/em> which sounds just like the nom de some off color joke here<\/em> of an erotic thriller writer, she said she’d heard of him<\/a> as he’s the guy who took over the Jason Bourne series for Ludlum. So I guess that’s his real name. And this book is the first in a series<\/a> that has run (so far) from 1980 to 2016 (an ebook short story). So I guess that is his real name, and I’m not looking at a fat mash-up of Kung Fu featuring Mace<\/a> and The Gunsmith<\/a>. I have put it on the table beside my reading chair anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- Get Out Of I.T. While You Can<\/em> by Craig Schiefelbein, a self published book from 2007.<\/li>\n