I'm reading The Mind of Clover - Essays in Zen Buddhist Ethics by Robert Aitken. Enjoying it? Somewhat.

Traffic Secrets 2.0. Basically, it's a 300 page transcript of a guy talking for 18 hours, although I pulled the audio out of the video files, sped them up, and can now listen to it in 11.5 hours instead. Being a southerner, he is very easily understandable despite the faster tempo. (I finished listening to it all twice through already on my daily commute, just haven't finished reading through the transcripts.)

Advanced Marathoning - Pfitzer. I'm sad.

The Castle, by Franz Kafka (some paperback translation). I'm reading it on work breaks, and it's taking me forever to finish!

Good book. I love Kafka. Currently I am reading T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. It's pretty good thus far. It's definitely interesting to see some of the history of Western involvement in that region of the world. The writing leaves a bit to be desired, but it is manageable.

...an odd stack of Father Andrew M. Greeley's Irish books....mentally trying to check out till race day...

Last week I finished re-reading The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. I re-read it because I felt like I sort of skimmed it the first time. You've probably seen Trent mention Mr. Pollan's articles and/or books around RA and I bought this one and another book by Mr. Pollan called In Defense of Food on Trent's suggestion. I learned a lot about where our food comes from - in particular how much corn and oil play into the American food production process. Mr. Pollan is a gifted writer and he took me on a journey of four different meals from Mc Donald's to a meal he prepared only from foods that he hunted, gathered, harvested. An interesting read for sure. This weekend I finished A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. Not normally my thing, but it was one of those books I started years ago and never finished. Found it in my office the other day and decided to finish it. Learned a little about physics and crossed off some unfinished business. It's a bit dated but a good overview of theoretical physics for the "layman". I also read Hardcore Zen by Brad Warner. With a subtitle of Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality, how could I pass it up? If you're into or interested in Zen, Brad's book cuts to the chase on the subject of reality without all the sugar coating found in other texts on Zen. His writing style is entertaining and I finished the book in an afternoon. Good read. Next up are a couple murder mysteries to give myself a break from the non-fiction kick.