Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man

college option

I decided at the last minute to do a College National Champion version of the Super Bowl reading option I do every year. I only wish I'd thought of it sooner so I could have picked four books Instead of just two. Here are the chosen ones:

A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

(Ohio State)

vs.

The Steampunk Trilogy - Paul DiFilippo

(Oregon)

Next book I read is decided by the National Championship Game. Good luck, teams!

annual favorite 2014

This year's Upside Your Mind favorite book is:

The Wise Man's Fear

by

Patrick Rothfuss.

***

Runner up:

Fiendish Schemes

by

KW Jeter

BANNED BOOKS 2: Whores, Talking Pigs & Euthanasia

2014

Books I read this year.

1. Homunculus - James P. Blaylock
2. Dinner at Deviant's Palace - Tim Powers
3. Shockwave Rider - John Brunner
4. Get Jiro! - Anthony Bourdain
5. 1984 - George Orwell
6. Underground 3: Rowlf - Richard Corben
7. Lux the Poet - Martin Millar
8. Ender in Exile - Orson Scott Card
9. Dune - Frank Herbert
10. The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
11. A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. LeGuin
12. Secrets of the Shopping Mall - Richard Peck
13. Eye in the Sky - Philip K. Dick
14. The Visible Man - Chuck Klosterman
15. Hylozoic - Rudy Rucker
16. Fiendish Schemes - KW Jeter
17. The Big Chunk of Ice - Bertrand Brinley

Neil's Book of the Dead

currently reading

The Big Chunk of Ice

by

Bertrand R. Brinley

BANNED BOOKS: Boobies, Pillz & Aliens

currently reading

Fiendish Schemes

by

K.W. Jeter

recommended

Someone on reddit recently asked what is an amazing book from a genre I typically don't read. Here's my recommendation. Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb. It's a whodunit set at a science fiction convention.

R.I.P.

currently reading

Hylozoic

by

Rudy Rucker 

currently reading

The Visible Man

by

Chuck Klosterman

Thug Kitchen Cookbook

currently reading

Eye in the Sky

by

Philip K. Dick