Sometime around 1872 -- Reading author unknown

This week I was too busy with Christmas to interview a reader. Happy Holidays! 

Instead, here's a painting by Claude Monet that was on a card I received from my friend Allison this past birthday. It's entitled Springtime and was painted circa 1872 and resides in the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore.

December 19, 2016, Monday night (in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) -- Reading Ashlee Vance

At the Kuala Lumpur airport

He lives in Kuala Lumpur, and is on his way home to see his family in the UK

He is reading Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, by Ashlee Vance. Recently he hasn't had much time to read outside of books for work (he's a physicist) and found this pleasure reading at a bookstore in the airport.

When he does read for fun, one of the genres he likes is sports autobiographies. He read Hitting Back: The Autobiography, by Andy Murray, a tennis player from his home country, Scotland, who became number 1 in the world this past November. He also enjoyed reading Four Men in a Boat:  The Inside Story of the Sydney 2000 Coxless Four, about the 2000 Olympics and Great Britain's rowing team, by Tim Foster, Rory Ross.

It feels a little serendipitous posting from Kuala Lumpur, not only because I like the way it sounds, but also because back in 2008 I inspired Uzair Sawal and Dizzy to interview people reading books and start their own reading blog in Kuala Lumpur. I don't see any recent posts their blog, but here's the link if you want to see people outside the airport reading in Kuala Lumpur.  Unfortunately I don't get to leave the airport, I'm just on a layover, but some day maybe I will.

December 6, 2016, Tuesday afternoon -- Reading Zadie Smith

Downtown, waiting for someone

He is reading White Teeth, by Zadie Smith. It's been on his shelf and he's been meaning to read it for a while.
His favorite book is Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace, which he noted was a cliché  -- he's a well educated male in his mid- to late-twenties.

November 28, 2016, Monday evening -- Reading Arnaldur Indridason

In the Financial District
He is reading Strange Shores, by Arnaldur Indridason. He got it in one of the free libraries that look like birdhouses.

Something good he read recently was The Instructions, by Adam Levin. His favorite author is Mikhail Bulgakov. He's read almost everything Bulgakov has written. A couple that stand out are Heart of a Dog, Master and Margarita, and a biography of Molière.