SFist Reads
When we're not poring over voter information to make sure we're the best informed voter we can be, we're hanging out at our local bookstores. And if the other guy wins (you know who we're talking about) we'll be reserving books from the San Francisco Public Library so we can mentally escape from it all. (That is, if he doesn't just get rid of all the libraries! Darn that other guy!)
SFist Jon just finished The Daily Show's America: The Book. He can't decide whether it's merely really funny or really really funny. The kind of book that references the Beastie Boys in a bit about John Locke and Harry Potter in a bit about Patrick Henry.
With the holidays barreling towards Sfist Rain, she decided to once again try and tackle Jonathan Frazen's The Corrections. She figured reading about a fictional dysfunctional family's attempt to gather for Christmas could help her prepare for her own yuletide get-togethers. And perhaps even appreciate hers a little more.
SFist Emily continues her trend of making the rest of us feel stupid by reading The Presentation of Self in
Everyday Life by Erving Goffman. Basically Shakespeare got it right, all the world's a stage and we're just actors on it. In this book Goffman explores the roles that everyone plays all the time when interacting with others. Best chapter title = "the Art of Impression Management".
Sfist Eve just whipped through Jeffry Lindsay's Darkly Dreaming Dexter We're all so tired of thoise dumb serial-killer books, aren't we? But DDD one-ups all of them by making the hero of this story a organized socipathic killer who only does in bad guys. All of the fun of casual sadism with none of the guilt? We'll take it!