Dick Farina's "Been Down So Long It Feels Like Up To Me", if you can find it, it a wonderful book, about being the only hipster at a late-fifties college. I love to read the Tolkien trilogy over the Yule, heaviest time of tree-magic. Magic in general, I guess. And I just bought NEW (very unusual for me) Nick Tosches' new book, "Where Dead Voices Gather". He fuses black music, country music, history, philosophy, and rock into a tsunami of yeoman inspiration.