Summer Reading
With vacation coming up, I need to make sure I have sufficient reading material to occupy myself between excursions into the water. Typically in a week I'll read three or four books, and I try to include at least one that is at least semi-historical (last year that was The Road to Wellville, even though the history was maybe a little thin), and one that I wouldn't ordinarily read (last year, that would have been a couple of The Southern Vampire Mysteries).
This year, though, I'm kinda stuck. I've picked out two books on end-of-the-world myths - A History of the End of the World by Johnathan Kirsh and The Real History of the End of the World by Sharan Newman. These will feed the interest I have lately in end-times movements and how they reinvent themselves when their central events fail to occur.
Beyond that, I'm at a loss. I'll finish The Elements of Murder this weekend (thanks to Joshua Zelinsky for suggesting that one), so I need at least one more. I'd like it to be something entertaining. I was considering The Bourne Identity, but I'm worried that it might be too dated.
I'd certainly appreciate if either of my readers could suggest something, preferably something that can be read while holding a cold beer.
-Jay
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