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Tim is on page 35 of 448 of In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

The trouble I'm having is that at the end of every paragraph, I spend 10 minutes day-dreaming about how I would be the most Kick-ass, gun-running, people-smuggling, Nazi-licking Ambassador in history. So, it makes the book take longer.

— Oct 25, 2011 07:15AM Add a comment

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

Tim is on page 105 of 460 of This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

I read a lot of reviews saying this was an academic slog, but I'm not finding it difficult to read. It is really neat to be reading it while all this Euro-debt business is going on.

— Sep 07, 2011 03:32PM Add a comment

This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

Tim is on page 126 of 264 of The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

EVERYONE must read this book

— Aug 19, 2011 12:40PM 3 comments

Tim is on page 26 of 264 of The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

I already love this book. It already made me laugh out loud several times. It focuses on personalities and storytelling instead of charts and regulatory statutes, but still teaches a lot about our financial system. It is irreverent and witty.

— Aug 16, 2011 01:19PM Add a comment

Tim is finished with The Devil in the White City

— Aug 08, 2011 03:03PM Add a comment

Tim is reading Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)

almost done. I wrote a blog post about it: Go Read it

— Nov 19, 2010 09:30AM Add a comment

Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)

Tim is on page 250 of 522 of Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)

This is one of the best history books I've ever read. Captures the feel of Texas in the 1940s. Captures what a megalomaniac Johnson was. He chose people not for their competence, but for their potential for slavish devotion.

— Sep 02, 2010 08:30AM Add a comment

Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)

Tim is on page 66 of 246 of The Book of the Dun Cow (Chauntecleer the Rooster, #1)

We are on chapter 6 and it is great. The world they live in is very mysterious. The great thing about reading this out loud is that there is a lot of dialogue and chances to practice crazy voices.

— Sep 02, 2010 08:18AM Add a comment

The Book of the Dun Cow (Chauntecleer the Rooster, #1)

Tim is on page 66 of 522 of Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)

Lyndon Johnson is a seriously damaged individual.

— Aug 23, 2010 08:34AM Add a comment

Tim is on page 70 of 672 of The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad

This is the third book I've read recently where Hitler's plans were plain as day, but the other powers weren't willing to see it. The first part of the book is devoted to the run-up to war in the middle of June 1941.

— Aug 09, 2010 08:21AM 4 comments