Books I've read so far this year...

1. The human Christ: the search for the historical Jesus by Charlotte Allen. [I forget this one. Ancient history interests me, but I thought this one was a little on the dry side.]
2. Lisey's Story by Stephen King
3. Orientalism by Edward Said
4. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
5. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
6. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
7. Language death: The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect by Nancy C. Dorian
8. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
9. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri. Tranlated by Robert Pinsky.
10. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
11. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
12. Fray by Joss Whedon -- Okay...technically not a book in the traditional sense. It's a comic book written by Joss Whedon, who is the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, and Angel. The story takes place several hundered years in the future when magic had disappeared from the world and there were no slayers. To me, it seems to be an interesting blend of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly.

There is a special hell...

...for people who merely pull into spaces at the gas pump that you have spent the last minute trying to back into. There is also a special section reserved for people who pull this same stunt after you have waited two minutes for said spot. This ended with me having to turn the car around...again...and pull into another pump once it was available.

I swear...I really hate people sometimes...

[Edit: My car is a piece of shit anyway. I should have just continued to back into him just for kicks. "Oops...sorry...I was backing up into the spot and you ran into me. Heh heh.]