Do the 2008 TBR challenge

reading for pleasure – even for work! – has fallen pretty low on the priority list given limited time available.

Obviously it’s going to be piecemeal, but I’ll try to make it cumulative so they’re all in one place.

A Pigeon and a Boy – Meir Shalev
A Woman in Jerusalem – A.B. Yehoshua
La Sombra del Viento – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Problem of the Media – Robert McChesney
Manufacturing Consent – Noam Chomsky

might be the hard part, but for starters:

Robert McChesney, The Problem of the Media
Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent (this has been on the list for, oh, 10 years)

I think it’s the dense non-fiction books like these for which I need the most accountability.

On the other hand, a few years ago I cruised through Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States like it was Anne of Green Gables, so you never know; the right level of political outrage can be as compelling as anything.