lectio libri

a rough latin translation for “reading books”

For the curious, here’s what I’m feeding my mind.

currently chewing through:

• never-ending online reading
• Thinking Like Your Editor (re-read)
• Depraved and Insulting English (yes, I read glorified dictionaries for fun)
• Autobiography of Mark Twain

selections from my most recent reads

• The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Publishing
• Sex At Dawn
• Carnival Strippers
• How To Disappear
• A Billion Wicked Thoughts
• Born to Run
• Slaughterhouse Five
• The Lover
• The North China Lover
• The Book of Vice
• Full Dark, No Stars
• Smart Girls Marry Money
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy
• Poorly Made in China
• The Apocalypse Reader
• The Ink Dark Moon
• The Little Book of Economics
• Five Roads to the Future
• Diary of a Taxi Driver

subscriptions

Due to traveling, I’ve let all subscriptions lapse and currently just pay cash at the newsstand for everything, which means I miss a lot of issues.

• The Economist
• Foreign Policy
• Foreign Affairs
• D Magazine
• Paper City (Dallas)
• The Writer
• Writer’s Digest
• Birds and Blooms

I update the list about twice a month. I’m not a slow reader but often I read stuff that I feel is only of interest to me. I try to post things that are more general interest.

My Amazon Wish List can be found to the left under my “Amanda’s Links” category — it’s the “sample of my literary tastes” link. If you’re interested. I have quite an array of books there, probably not what you were expecting to see.