Ryan's Cultural Consumption
Wednesday 30 July 2008 at 10:56 pm.Bill Buford’s Heat put me on a nonfiction track a while back, and I’m still doing some laps on it. I’m a ways into the World War I account The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman, which also fits onto my recent Pulitzer slant (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Olive Kitteridge being the most recent).
Other novels on the current nightstand (reading or soon to read) include The World Without Us, Anathem, The City and the City, and The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet.
I recently finished Shambling Towards Hiroshima, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, and The Forest of Hands and Teeth.
Check out more of what I’m reading (or am about to read) at GoodReads.
My wife and I watch Infomania every week, and have discovered the secret of Hulu for keeping up with the current season of The Office. Two recent guilty pleasures are Dorm Life and Legend of the Seeker.
Iron Man was probably my favorite movie of 2008. Star Trek seems to be the front-runner for 2009.
I’m still subscribed to Wired and First Things, both of which I enjoy.
I’ve also become a social media junkie. Sort of. I’ve managed to completely avoid Facebook, but I Twitter as jesteram, which is also the name I write under at ficly.com.
