I try not to ahem anything from living authors. For somewhat-aheming of old stuff, the Australian version of Gutenberg has different public domain rules than the American version, but they are naturally geared towards the Australian audience.

Seconding erika's vote for Callahan's autobiography. That is some bitterly funny shit.

Waist-High In The World, by Nancy Mairs, is also very good -- she's an extremely eloquent essayist who has lived with rapidly progressive MS that confined her to a wheelchair as a relatively young adult, and severe clinical depression all her life. The jolliest line in Waist-High is about 9000% less fun than the bitterest line in Callahan's book, but it's still very very good. She's just such a gifted, poetic and relentlessly, grindingly honest writer.

I'm following Mark Reads LotR and how he's not going to watch the movies till after he's read the books. I wonder if he'll be as pissed at how they changed Faramir as I was.

Valyrian steel says that you can pre-order their Beyond the Wall Survival Kit.

I have that one, too, JZ. More thoughtful than fun, but I do like it.

Alrighty, then, I'll go with the Callahan. That looks...different from what my classmates are reading (Someone is, in fact, reading Tuesdays With Morrie)

Anne Rice has a werewolf book coming out next month.

I don't know if I'll read it, but I am hoping she does a book tour and it comes to Seattle. Yes, I will go wait in line just so I can get her to autograph my 1st editions of Interview and Lestat. I own my cliches.

Don't laugh, but for what it is, I actually liked reading Tuesdays With Morrie. Although I related more to Albom as the student who had not become all that he expected to, than Morrie, who sometimes seemed like a real man and sometimes seemed like gimp, Jewish, Yoda.

I worked on a production of it, which is the distilled essence of the Hallmark-y-ness of the book. So, I have a more eye-rolly view of it than I otherwise would.

I suppose...the movie was embarrassing, Jack Lemmon or not.