The Math Gene, Keith Devlin. Whoa. I really dig this book. Rather informative although ... the math really is beyond me :\ I'm just hoping that reading *about* it will help me understand the mindset I need to be in to do arithmetic WHICH IS SOMETHING Devlin claims mathematicians cannot do well, either. Ho ho ho!
How To Be Alone, Jonathan Franzen. I'm not very far into this book, I just checked it out today, but I really like Franzen's insight so far. I'm looking forward to the rest of the book.
The Riddle of Joy, G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis. I'm only two, well, they're not really chapters, into this one, but I'm excited about it as well. C.S. Lewis is an author I've been trying to get into [and by trying, I mean thinking about and then forgetting :x] besides, uh, Narnia. Which incidentally I did rather like as a child. I've never heard of Chesterton, though, but apparently Lewis liked him so... I'm hoping to find something in this, I suppose.
As well as The Tale of Genji - which I am really not liking much, by the way, how boring and nothing much happens and when something DOES happen it's in an absurdly subdued way - and the Aeneid. A copy of which I had as a kid and tried really hard to understand, but, well. It was over my head. Plus the copy I have right now is translated super-awesomely easy to read; I think the copy I had before was Penguin Classics. I'll have to look into the translatioooons.
Oh! Greek Art by John Boardman came in the post yesterday HURRAH~
Bookmooch is fantastic. I wish I had money for postage...
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