You know the dismal depression that follows the finishing of a fantastic story?………………Okay, now that the uncool folks have left this post, you and I can really talk.
The below my proposed remedy to being booksick. ‘Booksick’ does not capture it, but it’s the best I’ve got at the moment. Any ideas on what to call the bitter-sweetness of finishing an amazing books?
Nonfiction-Science
Chaos: Making A New Science, James Gleick
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, Steven Johnson
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, James Gleick
Complexity:The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Choas, Mitchell Waldrop
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter
Epistolary Novels (it’s a story told through a series of letters)
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations…: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman
Soul of the Age: Selected Letters of Hermann Hesse, 1891-1962, Hermann Hesse and Mark Harman
Frances and Bernard, Carlene Bauer
Dear Committee Members, Julie Schumacher
Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience edited by Shaun Usher
Fiction-Life Changing
The Glass Bead Game, Hermann Hesse
The Great and Secret Show, Clive Barker
Ghost Story, Peter Straub
House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski
Philosophy-for amateurs and pros
The Confessions, St. Augustine
WrittenCasey 
#Resumption (of putting pen to paper <charcoal to treated and pressed trees. To be Frank, SK might have inceptwd this thought into my sweet dream.
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