Summer is over, and the days are getting shorter and colder.  Perfect weather to curl up by a fire with a good book.  Still, thanks to a series of entertaining reads, my summer productivity for at least two months was high. The lack of air conditioning and an extremely hot summer that made it just painful to do much other than read, which helped the cause as well.

Then I started reading Christopher Buckley’s ‘Boomsday.’ It’s amazing how a bad book can stop you cold from a great reading streak.

I had read Buckley’s ‘Supreme Courtship’ the month before and enjoyed it.  Thus I was excited to check out this book.  Still, something about it made it impossible for me to read more than a chapter in a sitting.  Maybe it was tired characters.  Maybe a bit of an unrealistic plot.  Every part of me wanted to continue through it, but it took close to two months to complete.

So where do I sit now in September on my two books a month goal? Thanks to the summer surge I am only a book behind.  My current reading list is mostly technical books, which I vowed not to add to this list.  Thus the fall run should be interesting.

1. Here is New York – E.B. White
2. Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion – Gary Vaynerchuk
3. When You Are Engulfed in Flames – David Sedaris
4. Then We Came To an End – Joshua Ferris
5. Twinkie, Deconstructed – Steve Ettlinger
6. Where Have You Gone ’82 Brewers – Tom Haudricourt
7. Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Aren’t Scary… – Edited by Ted Thompson
8. America, The Book – John Stewart
9. God bless you, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
10. God bless you, Dr. Kevorkian – Kurt Vonnegut
11. Rework – David Heinemeier
12. God is Dead – Ron Currie, Jr.
13. Supreme Courtship – Christopher Buckley
14. How Soccer Explains the World – Franklin Foer
15. You Suck, A Love Story – Christopher Moore
16. Boomsday – Christopher Buckley
17. xxx – yyy (name withheld for my protection)