Back again with another update to my reading list! I’m sure you can’t wait.

While in Punta Cana (which was beautiful, by the way) I read [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060938455/bujinkanmartia0b/]Fast Food Nation[/url]. This was a real eye opener as to what the fast food industry is all about in this country and abroad. It’s certainly made me think twice about going to all those fast food and chain restaurants on a regular basis. One of the most disturbing parts of the book was the discussion of the conditions in the meat processing plants and slaughterhouses in this country – inhumane to the animals and the human workers alike!

Just before our trip, I finished the [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0452284694/bujinkanmartia0b/]first book[/url] in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. Since the series finished up recently, I didn’t mind starting it now. There are too many multi-volume series that I get into at the beginning and the author just keeps writing and writing and writing (ala Robert Jordan). Now that I know there’s an end to the Dark Tower story, I’ll take it on.

Since I was reading some Stephen King, I thought my next read would be Salems Lot. This was the first full length King novel that I read back in the summer between sixth and seventh grade and it started me on a path of voracious reading. Like most his short stories that I had read previously, Salems Lot was a page turner. I finished the book in about 5 sweltering days in July, 1983. I recall laying on my bed in front of my open window one night, trying to get to the end of a chapter and catch a cool breeze when a moth crashed into the screen and nearly made me shit myself. I finished the story the night that my mom took my grandmother and me to see the 4th of July fireworks in Webster.