Booklist

I've been working too much to pay much attention to the Reds (they appear to be holding steady at .500) or the Bengals (leveraged the draft to stock up on linemen, which is fine and good).

I've been able to knock off a couple books, though. I finally finished Undaunted Courage, the mammoth book on Lewis and Jefferson by Ambrose. I recommend it, definitely.

I also finished Orson Scott Card's Shadow Puppets and Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers.

Shadow Puppets was OK, but I've found myself losing interest in the whole Ender saga. I guess a couple books was enough but four was too many, maybe, for me.

I found Outliers interesting, but most any undergraduate could easily invest hours debunking some of its methods and conclusions. That said, some breezy pop nonweighty nonfiction is needed every now and then.