What we been readin'

What's it to you? Ah, well, since you asked...

After finishing Mr Barth's The Development I really did dive into Andrew Sullivan's The Conservative Soul, as I threatened myself I would. Great friggin' book. Much of the first half of it is devoted to an explication of fundamentalism better than any I would have thought to have read. Taking it seriously (and opposing it) on its own grounds. And then a description of fundamentalism's grip on the current Grand Old Party and its dark service at the core of the Bush administration. All as a prelude to Sullivan's description of true conservatism. Makes a liberal wish he could help the conservatives wrest back control of the GOP.

Then (or maybe during), Ricky Jay and Rosamond Purcell's Dice: Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck. Then (and now) Umberto Eco's Serendipities : Language and Lunacy, alternating with recipes from A.J. Rathbun's Luscious Liqueurs. (Something about a fantasy of replacing much of the booze in the cabinet with our own concoctions. The better to read Eco by.)

You?