Reading List, Week of 2025-07-20

I have started a reading project I've been wanting to do for some time: a consecutive romp through every song in the Beatles catalogue, as covered by four sources: Alan W. Pollacks' classic Notes on ... Series (only available on the web), Tim Riley's Tell Me Why, Walter Everett's The Beatles as Musicians, and Ian MacDonald's Revolution in Your Head (3rd ed.)... Spurred on by reading John & Paul as well as the works of saki (from the days of rmb)... Yes, I am still obsessed... As Ian Leslie demonstrates in John & Paul, there's still plenty to say about this music... now, just waiting for Lewisohn... 

Reading List 2025-07-21:

*Everett, Walter. The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul (reread/started)
*MacDonald, Ian. Revolution in the Head, 3rd ed. (reread/started)
*Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick, or, the Whale (reread/started)
*Pollack, Allan W. Notes on … Series (reread/started)
*Riley, Tim. Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (reread/started)
*Ware, Chris. The Acme Novelty Library (started)
*Ditko, Steve, John Romita, and Stan Lee. Essential Spider-Man, Vol. 2 (reread/finished)
*Shakespeare, William. Much Ado About Nothing (Arden 2nd ed., ed. A.R. Humphreys) (reread/finished)
*Sorrentino, Gilbert. Gold Fools (reread/finished)
*Lambert, Eddie. Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide (reread/selections)