2024 book list. What are you Weiners reading?

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This is embarrassing. I used to read one or two books a week (since high school) but over the past two years I've read perhaps a half dozen books (mostly classics - Mrs. Dalloway, several Jane Austen's, Great Expectations, etc.) mostly on Kindle. Myasthenia Gravis makes reading a book pretty uncomfortable as my eyes have a lot of difficulty focusing on the page. It would make me sadder if I hadn't already read literally thousands of books...
 
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Currently the Complete Idiots Guide to Orchestration and a book on building a pizza oven. I've got a collection of science fiction short stories on order at the library.
 
I'm reading Rob Halford's autobiography. I'm not a fan of Halford or Judas Priest, but the local library had it available, and I tend to like rock autobiographies, so why not?

I'm enjoying it so far. Halford knows how to tell a story, and he keeps things tight and concise.
 
P. Craig Russel’s comic adaptation of Michael Moorcock’s Stormbringer
Bapurao S. Naik’s The Typography of Devanagari
The winter 2024 issue of Weird Fiction Quarterly
 
GomezAddams said:
I'm reading Rob Halford's autobiography. I'm not a fan of Halford or Judas Priest, but the local library had it available, and I tend to like rock autobiographies, so why not?

I'm enjoying it so far. Halford knows how to tell a story, and he keeps things tight and concise.
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I enjoy those too.

I’ve read these. I keep a list. Not on the list is Dio’s. I started it but it didn’t hold my interest. Struggling with Dime’s too. That’s saying something since I got through both the long winded Keith Richards and Neil Young books. Funny thing, when I read them I hear it in my head as the artist. Have you read something you think is good not on my list?


Books Read about artists



Greg Allman

Jimi Hendrix

Buddy Guy

Dave Mustaine

Sammy Hagar

Tony Iomi

Neil Young

Ace Frehley

Keith Richards

VanHalen Rising

VanHalen Running with the Devil

Ted Templeman

Paul Stanley

Warran Zevon: I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead

Lita Ford

Hard to Handle: Steve Gorman (Black Crows)

Billy F Gibbons: Rock and Roll Gearhead

Texas Flood by Andy Aledort

Stevie Ray Vaughan by Patoski and Crawford

Stevie Ray Vaughan: Day by DayNight After Night Early Years

Stevie Ray Vaughan: Day by Day Night by Night His Final Years
 
Rereading Dracula for the umpteenth time for a book club. Probably the novel I’ve read the most — at least 10 times, probably more. Could def do the book club without another read through, but ‘tis the season.

Recently finished a kinda meh recent bio of Daniel Boone. Listening to Weapons of Math Destruction and The Longest Con because commuting is lame and I’ll usually just grab whatever is available from the nonfiction Libby offerings to make it less lame.
 
DinoMikeSr said:
I enjoy those too.

I’ve read these. I keep a list. Not on the list is Dio’s. I started it but it didn’t hold my interest. Struggling with Dime’s too. That’s saying something since I got through both the long winded Keith Richards and Neil Young books. Funny thing, when I read them I hear it in my head as the artist. Have you read something you think is good not on my list?
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I enjoyed these:
"Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith"
"Sharp Dressed Men" - This was written by ZZ Top's roadie #2. Great stuff for any ZZ Top fan.
"Infinite Tuesday: An Autobiographical Riff" - Mike Nesmith's autobiography of his non-Monkees days.
"Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ronnie Van Zant, and Me" - written by Van Zant's long time friend friend and Skynyrd security officer.

I also read a Melissa Etheridge autobiography that I quite enjoyed. It looks like she has two, but I must have read "The Truth Is . . .: My Life in Love and Music" because the other one came out in 2023 and I read this a long time ago.

And I just finished Halford's book. Like I said earlier, not a fan of metal, Priest, or Halford, but I enjoyed it.
 
Currently it’s Steve Martins memoir about his stand up days. But soon it will be this. A package randomly showed up on my doorstep today. A dear old friend in Iowa just felt like sending this to me. I was touched.
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