SFist Reads

This week many of us are slogging along with books that we've been working on for a while. When we're looking down the barrel of a book we know we'll need to take our sweet time with, we're inclined to pick it up from one of our fine local independent bookstores. Other times we reserve it online from the SF Public Library then use their onl;ine system to renew it as often as we need to to make it through. Either way works, and the sense of satisfaction we get when we finish is worth any price (even late fees)!

SFist Jon is now in the 800s of War and Peace and is super-psyched because he's a little more than halfway-through. He can even remember who's who now. Even better is the fact that after reading page after page about balls, dinner parties, and inter-family squabbles, he has finally gotten to the war part of War and Peace and is now reading page after page of military strategy, diplomatic meetings, and inter-army military squabbles. Actually, he is quite enjoying it as it turns out Tolstoy had quite the dry humor and didn't realize the whole point of the book seems to be to make fun of the entire 19th century. Well, that and a long treatise on the nature of fate, choice, freedom, and the existential condition.