I’m kicking the year off with some lighter reading, because one of my sub-goals this year is to finish Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. I started it last year but it is a behemoth to get through in one library checkout period.

So far I have finished:
Mainlines, Blood Feasts, And Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader – edited by John Morthland
The Sound and the Fury: A Rock’s Backpages reader: 40 years of classic rock journalism – edited by Barney Hoskyns

Currently I’m partway through:
Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President – by Jimmy Carter (the first step of a new goal to read the memoirs of each President from my lifetime)
The Late Shift – by Bill Carter (particularly apt, given Johnny Carson’s death this week)

Currently stacked by my bed, waiting their turn:
Adventures in Missing the Point: How the Culture Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel – by Brian McLaren & Tony Campolo
What’s So Amazing About Grace? – by Philip Yancey
Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live – by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller
plus a stack of several CS Lewis books I got for Christmas, some of which I have not read before and am quite looking forward to.

2/30 done!