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Hello. I recently finished reading David Mitchell's novel _Utopia Avenue_. Has anyone else read it? If you have, what did you think of it?

I’m rereading “Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti. It’s not a book but a poem that pops into my head with some frequency. I’m not sure if I read it since taking a Victorian literature class in college.

I'm about to start reading Grendel, by John Gardner. I just got this for Father's Day. As I've heard only good things about this book told from the perspective of the monster who Beowulf killed, I look forward to it.

Dragon Chaser: A Memoir by Mark Lloyd

Mark Lloyd was in the Special Forces in Vietnam and then an officer with the LAPD and later with the DEA.:

I read the collection of Yoshiharu Tsuge comics 'Oba Electroplanting Factory'. Tsuge drew manga in the 60s and 70s for Garo and other magazines.

Wheels by Arthur Hailey, from 1971

Started reading Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami, but also reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.

Comics, I'm reading a Fantagraphics collection of Krazy Kat, years 1925-26.

"don't keep your day job", heller

Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca by John McWhorter

At Better World Books

At Amzn

This has been excellent, & I chose it while randomly roaming the library stacks.

《Man's Search for Meaning》
The first half is about life in a concentration camp, and the second half is about psychotherapy.
I have only read half of it, and I think it is a good metaphor to regard my previous life and study experience as being arranged in a concentration camp, so that I don’t have to dwell on the mistakes I made and the injustices I encountered.

Reading a few books; Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason, How to Win Friends by Dale Carnegie, and Becoming Your Own Bank by Nelson Nash; much I like the subject of improving personal finance. And I also like cheese sticks/string cheese.

Acolytes Of Cthulhu, edited by Robert M. Price.

Anthology of Lovecraft inspired short fiction I read when I'm between books. Truthfully, most of the stories are second rate.

De sterke verhalen, Heere Heeresma---- really??? im reading another book then the goodread-ers
haven't gotten to that yet, maybe, how about the other stories, its always strange how (even) book- commenters seem holden(held) to unspoken rules of saying the same,

Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk.

So far so good, with a narrator suffering from three years of insomnia meeting his soul mate, Tyler Durden. While the movie was pretty loyal to the book, there are still differences, which is to be expected.
So far an enjoyable read.

Can You See Me? by Libby Scott and Rebecca Westcott. It's about an autistic girl starting secondary school (high school).

I feel depressed that I can relate a bit to the main character, Tally. I don't relate to her obsession with logic and rules, but the way she explains the reason why she has outbursts kinda describes my outbursts I used to have when I lived at home. And also I can relate to the way she was treated by her peers at school. I like the way she's the least stereotypical autistic character I've ever come across, as in an atypical type like me. Reading things about atypical autism makes me feel like I belong somewhere on the spectrum.

I recommend this book to NTs because it can explain that autism isn't all stereotypes and geekiness and intellectual superiority and disinterest in people. Like me, Tally's IQ ranges around 90-100, she's more of a wimp than a geek, she doesn't monologue on about a special subject, and she naturally has the same social desires as NTs. I think she has to mask more than me though. I can be myself without seeming autistic.

The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe. My dad let me borrow it. Pretty good read so far and it'll be fun to get some tin foil hat talk on with my dad as I read more. Tin foil hat talk aside, it makes some good points about previous generations and gives me some insight and perspective...I appreciate that.