I tend to forget (or: not store in memory as a referenceable list) what books I've read, or picked up. So here's the incomplete list.
But before I start, a musical recommendation for all five people that still have this RSS feed somewhere (and the six that will stumble upon this via Google, including one Jooneed Khan, who teases me about the blog post of a few weeks ago every time I see hime): listen to the New Pornographers. As in, I listen to them, far, far too often. Enough hooks, as they say, to fill my grandfather's tacklebox. Resonant lyrics just vague enough to keep you on your toes. So catchy. But who am I kidding? This is just a pathetic attempt to quell my addiction to their music in the same way that I externalize, mediate and mechanize my memory with this machine.
Underworld, Don Delillo
Stone Junction, Jim Dodge
Fup, Jim Dodge
Wisdom and Metaphor, Jan Zwicky
Beyond the Promised Land: The movement and the myth, David Noble
Communication Technology, Darin Barney
Lenin, Christopher Read
Thinking the Difference: For a Peaceful Revolution, Luce Irigaray
Multitude, Hardt and Negri
Empire, Hardt and Negri
Playing Left Wing: From rink rat to student radical, Yves Engler
Canada in Haiti: Waging war on the poor majority, Anthony Fenton and Yves Engler
Gary Benchley, Rock Star, Paul Ford
The Dream of a Common Language, Adrienne Rich
The Toughest Indian in the World, Sherman Alexie
A Brief History of Progress, Ronald Wright
Son of a Smaller Hero, Mordechai Richler
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Mordechai Richler
Pussy, King of the Pirates, Cathy Acker
Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship, Uncle Noam
Death of a Nation: The attack on Yugoslavia, Michael Parenti
History as Mystery, Michael Parenti
Maailma Mõte, Fred Jüssi
Päts, Martti Turtolla
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Reading, Talking, Writing, Cyril Welch
Full-Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century, Stan Goff
Economy of the Unlost, Anne Carson
That's all I can remember from the last two years or so. If I was really on the ball, I would write a bit about each one.