Good Reads

Well, I made an account on goodreads. It was kinda fun to try remembering the books I've read. Of course there are too many to list in one sitting, so I started with the ones I remember most liking. Apparently I am a fully qualified Zelazny fan.

Today is a gray and cold day and I have a cold. However it's not the worst of times.

I am also reading Gavin de Becker's "the gift of fear". I started somewhere in the middle and it was just exciting to read the accounts of close calls -- but that's not the purpose of this book of course. Starting over at the beginning, I found a section I really liked where GdB emphasizes the humanity of the violent (they are not inhuman monsters -- they are precisely human) and asserts that introspection is an evolutionary gift that allows us recognize threats from other people.  I mean, of course it allows us to recognize ALL KINDS of things in other people, but still.

FUN TIMES!