Reading List for July

A new month, a new selection of books to read. It's a damn shame that we have to go to work and things like that and cannot do what we want to do, such as read, travel, sleep, have sex, etc, whenever we want to do it. Life costs money.

This summer, we're doing the "staycation" idea. A couple of months ago, the wife and I decided that we would take a week of vacation time from our jobs but would not go anywhere this time. We would stay at home, fix up some things at the house we'd been wanting to do, do some things in the business world since not everyone is open on the weekends, read a lot, fuck a lot (something we normally do on a vacation) and just basically chill out.

A week or two after we decided to do that, we start seeing the terms "staycation" and "holistay" being tossed about. So, while we didn't coin the terms, I feel like we pioneered the concept. Sort of.

Anyway, here's the current reading list:

1) Paul Starr - Freedoms Power: The True Force of Liberalism

2) Christopher Moore - The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

3) Kurt Vonnegut - Armageddon in Retrospect, and other new and unpublished writings on war and peace.

4) Tony Morris - What Do Buddhists Believe?: meaning and mindfulness in Buddhist philosophy

5) George Lakoff - The Political Mind: why you can't understand 21st century politics with an 18th century brain

6) Barack Obama - Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance

7) David Sedaris - When you are engulfed in flames

8) Stephen Colbert - I am America (and so can you!)

9) Christopher Moore - Coyote Blue

Hope you all get to take some time "off" and enjoy life. My guess is that, by the end of the year, gasoline is going to cost upwards of $6/gallon. Ouch. Mission Accomplished, George.