Reading is Fun-damental, Part III

I've dropped some books from my list. The are:

Seven Men by Max Beerbohm--I may come back to this one, but it wasn't what I thought. Max Beerbohm knew a lot of really interesting people and I thought this book was about them. It's not. It's fiction so I've dropped it for now.

Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself by Robert Montgomery Bird--I dropped this because I think I was afraid to read an American novel written in the 1830s. Stupid of me. It's going back on the list.

The Chrysalids by John Wyndham--I've already read this book twice and I really don't need to read it again. Still, this is the book from which Paul Kantner lifted every line for the Jefferson Airplane song, "Crown of Creation."

Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum--I've already read it and decided that now was not the time to invest in books I've already read. I really would like to eventually own a copy though.

Gipsy Moth Circles the World by Francis Chichester--Exactly the same situation as the Joshua Slocum book above.

So, the books I've finished so far are:

Merle's Door by Ted Kerasote
In the Court of the Crimson King by S.M. Stirling
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Bones by Jonathan Kellerman
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Goshawk by T.H. White
Blaze by Stephen King
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Split Image by Elmore Leonard
A Gypsy Life by Clare Allcard
The Big Knockover by Dashiell Hammett

That breaks down to:

Sci Fi/Fantasy: 4
Nonfiction: 4
Suspense/Crime 5
Dog Books 1
Sailing Books 1

Whee!

Arlen Specter Jumps Ship

Nate Silver posted this interesting commentary about Pennsylvania's Senator Arlen Specter leaving the Republican party for the Democrats... and how this is a pretty big loss for the Repubs but barely a win at all for the Dems.