Currently reading two books:
1. T.C. Boyle's Outside Looking In - I recently read his short story The Shape of A Teardrop on The New Yorker, and it occurred to me that it'd been a while since I read any of his works. This one is engaging and funny, except the drag of an Introduction featuring Hoffman's first encounter with LSD's mind-altering properties. But the book does frame the craze (however shortlived) for consciousness expansion in the context of therapy and analysis. It aims to ask how we went from the couch to taking a synthesized substance expecting the same results as from analysis, and indeed more. Very engaging.
2. Trevor Noah's Born A Crime - I hardly ever read anything by celebrities, coz one can never be sure just how much of their work was written by a ghost author. It's also sort of a rite of passage for celebrities to publish something. This one makes me wonder the same. Not sure how much of this book was actually written by Noah himself. It's ok as a tea-time read I guess.