fall is for reading

First let me say that I have joined some of the cool kids, (or maybe I am feeling just somewhat un-stodgy) because I have been living in Neverwhere during my commutes the past week. What's more the master himself has been doing the narration.

When I am not there it is 1920s Berlin, a City of Shadows, which was not a pleasant place at all. A Franklin has woven a thriller involving Anna Anderson the alleged Romanov survivor, and a trail of madness she creates.

Recently I finished Gladwell's The Tipping Point - funny how I have recently heard references in media more since it has come to my attention. It's is not so much groundbreakingly new but full of interesting perspectives. Isn't that what the best books do? Make you think and look at life differently?

And, Picasso's War - is a thorough exploration of the impetus, creation and history of his masterpiece Guernica (which is pronounced gair-NEE-kah) Not totally sure of the timelessness of the painting, it is less that 100 years old. But I do know that images in books or online in no way do justice to a work like this, especially one this large. Yeah, seeing Pollock's work in person at the Tate Modern taught me that.

I am considering the Electric Michelangelo and Colum McCann's Zoli next but who knows? I think Harry Dresden is calling me.