Books I Intend To Read
I haven’t bought a lot of books recently. Mostly because I am an avid sponge of encyclopedic data and the web is perfectly suited to do that. I really have only one good reason to buy real books and that is to punish trees. Trees may not have a heart but they are evil to their woody core.
Everyone has jumped on the “hug a tree” bandwagon but my personal experiences make it tough to do so. I grew up in a heavily forested area. I have dozens of tree related scars.
As a child a crazy, home-schooled, girl jammed a stick into my eye and I had to wear a cage around my face for a summer. It’s a miracle that experience from my youth didn’t scare me off Team Heterosexual.
The following books arrived from Amazon recently and I intend to read them as soon as possible.
More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman
The follow up book to John Hodgman’s Areas of My Expertise which has a prized position on my modest book shelf. John is one of my all-time favourite comedians. His work on The Daily Show and in TBWA/Chiat/Day’s Mac vs. PC ad campaign is fantastic. His ability to form funny sentences with words, also well developed.
The book itself is an almanac style collection of short pieces which are just close enough to being factual to thoroughly entertain and terrify simultaneously.
My Custom Van: And 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays that Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face by Michael Ian Black
I remember Michael Ian Black as McKinley in Wet Hot American Summer. He is also one of the three guys in Stella (the one named Michael Ian Black), for those who remember that show from Comedy Central, and he was the screen writer of Run Fatboy Run, one of my favourite movies, featuring Simon Pegg.
He also has a blog which features rants and commentary on his own life. This book I’m hoping is a continuation of his writing on the blog. If it’s not, I’ll likely be very upset.
Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions by Christian Lander
Christian Lander writes one of my favourite blogs, called StuffWhitePeopleLike.com, where he rather pointedly highlights the things which I join my pasty brothers and sisters in liking. Christian, who is also notoriously and inescapably white, does a fantastic job of highlighting why minorities think that we white people are collectively morons.
