I've been more focused on streaming this week. However I still chipped away at 40-60 pages of the following:
"Faceless killers by Henning Mankell": The plot has picked up a bit and is topical related to current events (asylum seekers in Sweden). I'll decide later whether I continue with the author (not such a fan of…

Or ultimate frisbee…

Friday: streamed the gunman on netflix. OK for a relatively mindless night's entertainment although I doubt I'll remember much of it in a few months. Its treatment of issues with resource multinationals in the congo and elsewhere was pretty generic although this is a holly wood action movie. C+
Saturday: watched…

I haven't been doing much reading this week because I've been busy. I'm still reading "the faceless killers" by Henning Mankell and "The ruin of the Roman Empire" by James O'Donnell.

at least you're doing better than Chelsea this year (they're the team I follow most in the EPL). It'll be cool if you can get into champions league, plus I like the idea of Pochettino's focus on youth.

El Salvadorean cuisine is good, there's a place near me. The one thing that did surprise me is that spiciness is less emphasized compared to other latin american cuisines (Peruvian, Mexican), still good if you can find an authentic restaurant though.

Sounds good, I haven't read any of that particular series yet (he also wrote a series during the viking invasion of England iirc).

If you like both history and mystery novels her are some good historical mystery authors: Laura Joh Rowland (samurai era Japan), Stephen Saylor (ancient Rome), the mistress of the art of death series by Ariana Franklin (medieval England).

I was a pretty big fan of Palahniuk when I was 17 to 19 although my tastes have changed a bit since then. If you've already liked and enjoyed Fight Club I remember enjoying "Diary" and "Haunted" the most. I also read "Rant" and "Choke". "rant" didn't make much of an impression on me (not terrible but not that…

I finished "How Soccer explains the world by Franklin Foer. My final opinion is much the same as in previous weeks. Foer is a competent writer who finds interesting anecdotes about the game and people who love it. However, the last two chapters (on the middle east/Iranian nationalism and the US "culture wars" circa…

No, he'll jump around on its couch instead.

I finished "A German requiem" by Phillip Kerr. All in all, I enjoyed all 3 parts of the Berlin Noir trilogy and would recommend them to others. Its a good mixture of detective intrigue and historical background detail on 1936-1947 Germany and Austria. Kerr continues writing novels with the main character set…

Probably at least some of the same crowd who defended Chris Brown after the Rihanna incident.

I agree with this statement.

Mining… for cheesy reductive stereotypes of latinos.

gives new meaning to "snap crackle & pop"

To be Franklin, you really shouldn't.

Thanks, if it means anything I can tell that you're a good person and that if you want a relationship you will get it (I've been lurking since 2013)

Yeah, I know. Its just in my part of the world (Canada) if you say football its automatically assumed that you're into CFL or NFL. Different linguistic quirks and all that although you are right to point this out (Foer is an American writing for what I assume is a North American audience).

I finished "1491: new reflections of the Americas before Columbus" by Charles Mann. Overall this was a very well written book that largely succeeded in its thesis that the American indigenous cultures were more sophisticated and populous than commonly taught. The only part that gives me pause is Mann's discussion of…