Just finished....

Peter Singer's small book on Hegel. "Elegy for Iris", about Iris Murdoch. Year's Best SF 14 (I think). Read Nick Hornby's "How to Be Good" a while back. Starting Wodehouse collection, "Blandings Castle". Also various math books.

More books

Reading "under the net" by Iris Murdoch, to get ready for book club meeting. Finished "embassytown" by China Mieville; pretty same-y. Don't think I'll be following him any more. I need to ready "emma" but I can't make myself do it. Read two PG Wodehouse books on my Nook during the summer, a few are free on Gutenberg, pretty good ones too. Some I've tried from the library (jill the reckless, and money in the bank) seem like duds.

Yet more bargain books

Good grief. I'm picking up so many of these cheap books that I am ending up taking them back there and dropping them off again. Here're some of the keepers:

A beat up old paperback of Whitehead's "Adventures of Ideas". A compact paperback of "The Mill on the Floss", which will become part of my travel reading I guess. A great big old hardback of an 1892 survey of philosophy by Royce (an American Hegelian).

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My browsing at the 25 cent bin has to stop...

So far I've accumulated 2 Mel Levine books (there must be SOMETHING in there, amongst the dry academic verbiage), a Merck Manual so that I can worry about having diseases I don't have, some Sierra Club nature books (so that I don't waste looking at nature), and some literary fiction. I passed up a chance to get a beat up copy of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (I might like reading it, if it only had the Ikea lists and breakfast details, but no violence).

My youngest son is waiting (in a queue 173 long) for The Hunger Games to come into the library. This seems to be the new YA dystopia craze.