A Modest Construct

Now Reading

• Planned books:
  • House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
  • The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet
  • Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Prof. Randy Frost Ph.D., Prof. Gail Steketee Ph.D.
  • Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
  • Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
  • To Your Scattered Bodies go by Philip Jose Farmer
  • And God Said: How Translations Conceal the Bible’s Original Meaning by Joel M. Hoffman
  • I Love It When You Talk Retro: Hoochie Coochie, Double Whammy, Drop a Dime, and the Forgotten Origin by Ralph Keyes
  • The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman
• Current books:
  • Oil Panic and the Global Crisis: Predictions and Myths by Steven M. Gorelick
  • Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
  • The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history by John M. Barry
• Recent books:
  • The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
  • Juliet, Naked: a novel by Nick Hornby
  • Shades of Grey: A Novel by Jasper Fforde
  • The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
  • K-Pax by Dr. Gene Brewer