What Are You Reading?
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I tend not to read fiction that much I generally read books about real things (don't know what you call those kind of book 'fact book', non-fiction?)
I read Freakonomics too recently which was a quick fun read but did make me think about approaching problems from a different perspective.
I also read some pop-psych books like Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton, good if you want a quick explanation of those kind of things.
But I was given the Penguin 70th Anniversary boxed-set (70 books by 70 different influential authors) so I'm trying to make a dent in those books. It's great because they are all pretty short so you get a small taste of the author. Also I like to see how well people can write in a small space, if you need 1000 pages to get something across what does that say about your communication.
One of the books is 'short short stories' by dave eggers. They are all about 1 or 2 pages long maybe 200 words in total but some of them are really funny.
I used to love his short stories in the back of the guardian weekend magazine.