Last book read: The Given Day by Dennis Lehane. Very good.

Books on the way: + The Big Short, Michael Lewis. If it was “The Big Phone Book” by Michael Lewis, it would still be on the way. + Shibumi, Trevanian. Meant to read this a long time ago. + Fly Fishing with Darth Vader: And Other Adventures with Evangelical Wrestlers, Political Hitmen, and Jewish Cowboys, Matt Labash

Books here and waiting, some longer than others: + Empire of the Sun, J.G. Ballard. One of my favorite films of all time. + The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett + Cobra II, Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor + The Housing Boom and Bust, Thomas Sowell + The Civil War, Vol III: Red River to Appomattox, Shelby Foote + The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer