It’s been a while since we here at the last word recommended a book. We’ll make up for it by giving you a glimpse into what we’re reading these days…
Despite the distraction of the Tour de France, CK Anderson is managing to wrap up Just My Type: A Book about Fonts by Simon Garfield, after which he’ll tackle Ingrid Betancourt’s Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle.
Shirlee Roberts-Downey left early today and wasn’t able to participate in our survey. We’re fairly confident, however, that’s she’s reading Guns & Ammo. Probably even right now.
Newbie Lorri Johnston recently read One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are by Ann Voskamp, is currently re-reading Marty Neumeier’s Zag, and heartily recommends that you pick up a copy of C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters.
The Intern, who was initially reluctant to admit using such outdated technology as a printed and bound book, finally confessed to flipping through Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. She’s also a fan of Psychology Today and the blog typeverything.com.
As for me, I just finished The Swerve, Stephen Greenblatt’s recounting of a 15th-century book hunter who stumbles on a manuscript of Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things. And I’ve finally gotten around to cracking open Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom—a nearly 600-page doorstop of a novel that, so far anyway, is quite promising.
by Spimbi