Some fall reading perhaps?

Blog schedule: I am sticking to it. So, books. It should have been yesterday, but alas, kickboxing kicked my butt and I couldn't muster up the energy to turn on the computer. I instead passed out while watching The Bad Girls Club. I know. I know.

Gawker recently put out a list of new books coming for the fall, and I'm very interested in a couple of them, mainly these two:

Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
According to Gawker:
"Beaton's a Canadian-born web comic artist who satirizes famous people from history and popular culture and places them in absurd situations. Marcel Duchamp "pushes the boundaries" of his breakfast, Jane Austen deals with a friend who asks if the writing she's working on includes any "hunky dreamboats," and Nancy Drew talks to a skull. Surprising! Refreshing! Not your mother's "Garfield"!

I love me some historical satire and humor. I think this will be a good when I am in need of a laugh on a cold, dreary day.

 

Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label by Bill Adler, Dan Charnas, Rick Rubin, and Russell Simmons
According to Gawker
"A silver-anniversary retrospective and oral history of the hip-hop record label that brought us LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, Jay-Z, Rihanna, and many other beloved American culture-product innovators. Founders Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons, label artists, and music executives share pics, flyers, ads, cover art, and anecdotes about the olden days. Annie Leibovitz pictures are in there, too."

I'm not even a big hip/hop rap person, but I find history of record labels and music history in general so fascinating. Especially one is important as Def Jam and it's contribution to the musical landscape.

Also, there are some books I've read that I always consider "fall" books. They have a darker feel, maybe a little gloomy and existentialist. I also strangely LOVE reading detective novels in the fall. So here are a few good ones I highly recommend.

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Contains three short stories: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room. I love Paul Auster, he also wrote one of my favorite books,The Book of Illusions, and his stuff is just so well written and absorbing...I can't even describe how much I love his work. Anyway, the trilogy is a series of short detective stories but not quite. They're kind of like meta-detective fiction or mysteries about mysteries. They also are kind of absurd and weird and you will definitely be thinking about them when you've finished the book.

The Spellman Files by Liza Lutz
A family of private investigators in San Francisco who are very close knit, yet highly suspicious of one another and actually investigate each other most of the time. So funny, so real. I read this one last fall and really enjoyed it. It's the first in a series, so I think this fall I will have to get the next one to get my Spellman fix. Oh and I defintely laughed out loud many times while reading this one.





Are you reading anything exciting right now? Or do you have an recommendations for a good fall book?