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I've lately realized that my dislike toward Goodreads (and similar Facebook applications) stems from its ability to enable and exploit my complete mismanagement of that tendency to collect and accumulate. Don't get me wrong - I'm grateful for the exposure to all these brand-spanking-new publications, but these sites/applications have only inspired me to catalogue the books I already own (but am not making time to read) or, alternatively, to assemble lists of items that I hope to pick up when Berkeley - first the university, now the city - isn't bleeding me dry. Besides, I never really cared for the pervading "gotta keep up with the Joneses" mentality.

Anyway, I'm going to try to list all the books that I read over the course of the next month, mostly in order to motivate myself to dedicate a few undistracted hours per day to finishing some required reading. I'll usually try to include a couple thoughts, but not tonight.

A couple years ago, I found this book on the side of the road in Berkeley, and I just got around to finishing it yesterday. Dig it.