Maybe slightly off topic, but I am curious: What is your book consumption? (Throwing this out to the general TI membership.)

I feel good about myself if I make it through a book a month. Given such distractions as work, home maintenance, records, eating, drinking, FNB, and my love life, a book-a-month amounts to an achievement. Of course, I spend my 8-hour workday reading the stuff I have to edit, and I have a few magazines I read religiously, but I often wish I could do better than this.

Last edited by Chipper (2016-12-02 20:33:44)

Lots of music books at the moment.

The complete history of the Philly R&B/Soul Sound which is a stunning book:
http://www.soul-source.co.uk/soulforum/topic/358738-review-the-theres-that-beat-guide-to-the-philly-sound-review-by-mark-windle/

A similar book on Scepter/Wand label:
http://www.soul-source.co.uk/soulforum/topic/361022-news-scepter-wand-forever-a-new-book-now-out/

A great book on early Motown in the UK by Keith Rylatt:
http://www.soul-source.co.uk/articles/news-soul/launched-hitsville-the-birth-of-tamla-motown-keith-rylatt-r3476/

and on my tablet device I am reading Terry Wilson's book on UK Motown singles.

Lots more music books to read, plus lots handed over for Christmas presents: Modernism, designing a new world by Christopher Wilk, two books on Wells Coates, the Festival of Britain, the Tubby Hayes book by Simon Spillett.

As an English major, I tend to linger over pages and relish the prose, especially if its by a master like Nabokov or Updike. My ex-wife, who would devour a mystery novel in two or three sittings, never understood this and called me a slow reader. My current beloved, an English major herself, totally gets it, and I no longer have to feel weird about carrying around the same book for a year. LOL.

Not sure about a lot of modern fiction. 'Booker prize' crap for instance. No time for stuff by Saul Bellow either.

I might start reading Bulldog Drummond - an old fashioned, British hero for a post-Brexit, UKIP age.

What happened to Sammy Ambrose?  another good poster disappeared...

I have some days off over Christmas when I will be doing a lot of non-fiction reading of books stocked up to read and more put away as presents, all of it music, design or style related.  I find it helps clear my head of work stuff.

I decided to resubscribe to THE NEW YORKER, both online and print magazine. As someone who himself has been banned from time to time, here and there, and as a one-time fan of Henry Miller, I found this article intriguing.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/12/people-of-the-book-2

Restarting Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist... . I picked it up last winter and dropped it after the first third. It's a little slow going but my wife promises me it gets better.

I'm thinking of joining an audio book service for my car commute. I wish I could take the train--I would use the commute to read. One is available but as it turns out, a train would take twice as long.

On the home strait with 'Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism by Larry Siedentop'
Then on to Norman Cohn's 'The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages'
I've decided I'm finally going to get round to reading Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities next year and have all three volumes lined up..
Also really looking forward to Pankaj Mishra's 'Age of Anger: A History of the Present' being published next year. Hoping to find time to reread some of Tony Judt's work as well..