Lansdale audio and the almost summer list

I have been getting my Lansdale fix lately through the wonder of audio. It turns out that most of the Hap and Leonard series have been turned into audio books with the amazing voice talents of Phil Gigante. As his name implies, this guy is a major Phil in the field (you thought I was going to say, giant, didn't you?).

Anyway this guy nails both Hap and Leonard's voice, as well as the female interest, and a rogues gallery of well... rogues. I thought these books couldn't get any better - I was wrong. I love working to audio books, though when I have my headphones on, those walking by my studio and hearing me chuckle to myself, or outright guffaw (!), might wonder on my sanity.

I've been working a lot, so my bedside summer list of books has not decreased. Still, hope springs eternal, and after I finish American Pastoral by Philip Roth, I have another Crumley book, Mexican Tree Duck, to finish. Then I need to get to that stack of Jonathon Lethem books that I keep buying and not reading, ditto the Barry Hannah books. Then there is the stack of books on the Emergent church and other current theological topics (I wonder what Joe R. would think of Rumble Tumble sitting next to A New Kind of Christianity on the shelf).

I really do need to take the summer off to read. And then maybe the fall, and next spring. I wonder if I could get a reading grant?