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I've read more baseball books than are good for me (especially since most are Red Sox books). I recently read the Moe Berg biography and found it fascinating. Haven't gotten round to reading Friday Night Lights yet, but it's on the list.

Could it be Heat, by Bill Buford? Some of it was excerpted in The New Yorker.

OMG, Brister, that brings back the memories. Great name, not so great QB.

Maggie Smith was perfect for McGonagall in the HP films.

I grew up a Steelers fan, but now that I live in Boston, I gotta say, "Go Pats!"

I like both LibraryThing and AllConsuming.net (which also lets you list movies, music and other stuff).

Yes, though it'd be more accurate to say that it's the books that live in our apartment, and they just let us share the space.

Every chance I get! I never go anywhere without some sort of reading material.

I like satire too. Dr. Strangelove is one of my all-time favorite movies (even though, as a black comedy, it fulfills the requirement that everything goes to pot at the end).

How many books on average do you read in a month? Between 3-6, but it varies according to schedule, length of books, etc. When it comes to reading do you prefer to read hardcover or soft? Probably soft -- easier to carry around. If you have your own personal library is it stocked with...

The wife and I usually go to a couple of summer stock shows every year. I'd love to see more -- wish it weren't so darn expensive to see the bigger shows.

I talk about books pretty much every day with my wife (we're both big readers), and often with other people as well. Once I got into a nice Harry Potter-related conversation in the ladies' room at a rest stop, only afterwards realizing it was sparked by my Gryffindor Quidditch T-shirt.

I haven't read that many mob-related books, but I liked the Pileggi book too.

Just finished Gemini, the concluding book in Dorothy Dunnett's Niccolo Rising series. Not quite as rich in detail as the previous ones (probably because she has set it in countries the characters already know pretty well), but does a splendid job of describing all the different personalities and...

Funny thing is, Rowling didn't think she was writing a fantasy book until after she finished the Sorceror's Stone: http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1083935,00.html Which brought about this rejoinder from Terry Pratchett, in a letter to the Sunday Times: "I would have...

I like that Rowling pays a lot of attention to building the world, down to the very last detail. For instance, I loved the flying interoffice memos in the Ministry of Magic and all the different floors in St. Mungo's.

Oooh, I loved that show. I would love to have Jared's talents, but with my family intact and without the emotional trauma and guilt from doing the Centre's bidding for so long.

I read it a while back, probably before I saw the movie (I can't remember for sure). I didn't have any problems reading it -- I wouldn't want to live in Henry Hill's world, but I did like seeing it through his eyes.

Way too often for the amount of shelf space we have (or rather, don't have).

I'm 34. I was, er, over 18 and under 30 when I read the first HP.