SFist Reads: Or Do We?
Oh, it's a sad day for SFist. Not to encourage undue speculation, but it seems like we have all found better things to do than read this week. Is it that our online reserve queue from the SF Public library is currently stalled, ot that we've opted instead to buy our reading material from one of our fine local independent bookstores? We can only hope that next week is a better one for us all.
Want to know how bad it is? Well, SFist Jeremy is reading "the user's guide for my new camera." Gripping stuff, Jer. Sfist Krissy has "only been reading the job listings on Craigslist and skimming Newsweeks." Krissy, we've been there, and cannot judge.
Other SFists are hung up on the smame thing for a while. SFist Rain is still making her way through Love and Rockets, her speed probably due to the fact that it's too big to read on the bus. SFist Eve has been reading Watership Down for what seems like forever, as she prepares an essay on it for Spunk [arts] Magazine.
Down and Dirty Pictures jacket from the SFPL site
And then we have our troopers, SFists Chesh, Rita, and Jon.
SFist Cheshire is reading PHP for the World Wide Web (Second Edition) by Larry Ullman. As with most tech how-to books he has in his library, he's only reading the parts he needs to in order to achieve his plans of Web dominance. Most recently he's been excited by the section on explode() and implode(). (Seriously, who doesn't want to convert a string to an array and back again?) He also just received a free debut copy of Cook's Country, a new magazine by the sweetly anal-retentive people behind Cook's Illustrated (which SFist Isaac is reading this week, along with The soul of a new machine, by Tracy Kidder). He wonders just how different this magazine is going to be.
Sfist Jon is reading Down and Dirty Pictures : Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film by Peter Biskind An interesting book to read in light of Indie Fest as he kept on thinking to himself "What Would Harvey Do?" While the book gets a little too insider-y with way too much detail about ins and outs of deals, it's still an entertaining read just to read the back story behind such epic motion pictures as Clerks and Reservoir Dogs.
Sfist Rita grudgingly admits "well, I'm reading Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, about the power of first impressions, but have totally not been impressed by it at all, which is kind of a bummer. It's a good idea and some of the individual anecdotes are interesting (what happens when orchestra conduct blind auditions, police shootings) but overall, the book seems sort of glib and kind of phoned-in." (We recommend that Rita return it to the SFPL as soon as possible to let the disappointment spread to the other 398--we're not kidding--people who have reserved this book).
As you can see, it's kind of a dry week here at SFist headquarters. What are you reading? Tell us about it in the comments, to spare us another week such as this one. Please!