I just finished
The Vincent in the Barn by Tom Cotter and it's a fantastic read. I highly recommend it, especially since we are all in the business of taking bikes that are often forgot about and reviving them.
I also just finished
Shopcraft as Soul-Craft by Matthew Crawford, and I liked it quite a bit. I agree with almost everything he says about work and the current work/education climate, but I disagree with his presentation of his argument. Almost all of the hypothetical situations he talks about, and almost all of the solutions are masculine, and if you're writing a treatise on the nature of work, it seems unwise to exclude half of the workforce.
I'm also reading
Proficient Motorcycling by David L. Hough in preparation for the riding season. I figure you can't be too prepared, and it's always good to brush up on important skills that haven't been used in the last 6 months.
As for non-motorcycle related literature, I'm reading 2 books on American slang from the past century, because I'm a huge nerd and I love that #$%*. I've got several dictionaries of slang and idioms that I like to peruse. I'm also reading a book about the history of monsters called
On Monsters by Stephen Asma, and I'm currently working through 3 different detective novel series; the Lew Archer series by Ross MacDonald, the DKA series by Joe Gores, and the Parker series by Richard Stark. And I'm reading
Food Rules by Michael Pollan, author of
The Omnivores Dilemma and
In Defense of Food. And I've got a stack of cookbooks that I'm working through. So, I guess you could say my reading habits are a little ecclectic.
