What are you reading?

Kudra · Apr 19, 2008

I just finished Burnt Toast by Teri Hatcher, which was a disappointment, but had a few good lessons thrown in.

I'm currently reading Nora Ephron's I Feel Bad About My Neck, and I guess I'm getting the feeling that's it's pretty shallow with nothing more to discuss than how the author feels bad about not looking good as she ages. I mean, really, there are bigger problems in the world. I likely won't finish this one.

Next up: Anything by Amy Tan!

DragonHeart · Apr 20, 2008

Finished House of Chains, now working on Midnight Tides, the next book in the series. Quite pleased that, for once, the end wasn't filled with soul-crushing devastation. Or at least, not as much as usual.

I'm becoming rather fond of Cotillion.

~DragonHeart~

WriterInChains · Apr 21, 2008

Made a couple of false starts lately (trying to figure out what a couple of agents think "dark" & "edgy" means

) -- but LOVED An Absolute Gentleman, by R. M. Kinder. If all literary thrillers are like this, I'm about to read a LOT more of 'em.

Now I'm reading Lethem's Gun, With Occasional Music. This is one of the best novels ever. Seriously, it's The Big Sleep meets Animal Farm. Awesome.

robertmblevins · Apr 21, 2008

'Pilot Down - Presumed Dead' by Marjorie Phleger.

I liked this one so much, I got permission from Harper-Trophy to podcast it. We're doing it later this week.

You gotta love the part where he and the coyote become tight friends.

ChunkyC · Apr 22, 2008

Great TV & Film Detectives

A collection of short stories featuring characters that made it to the small and big screens, such as Mike Hammer, Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Maigret. Many of the stories date back to the beginning of the twentieth century and the style of writing in some of them is a hoot. There's a lot more 'said he' dialogue tags as opposed to 'he said' than you'd see today, and I've run across one 'he ejaculated' which I thought was pretty funny in a story from nearly a hundred years ago.

All in all, it's an interesting read and I'm quite enjoying it.

cletus · Apr 22, 2008

Fear by Jeff Abbott.
The Successful Novelist by David Morrell

Will Lavender · Apr 22, 2008

WriterInChains said:
Now I'm reading Lethem's Gun, With Occasional Music. This is one of the best novels ever. Seriously, it's The Big Sleep meets Animal Farm. Awesome.

Also one of my favorites. Motherless Brooklyn is a better novel, IMO, but it isn't as much fun as Gun.

Autodidact · Apr 22, 2008

Wowie. Just finished Foreskin's Lament, by Shalom Auslander. Anyoneread it? It's killer. Funny, sad, honest, fascinating.

childeroland · Apr 24, 2008

Madame Bovary, the Geoffrey Wall translation.

JBI · Apr 24, 2008

childeroland said:
Madame Bovary, the Geoffrey Wall translation.

How you liking it?

Vandal · Apr 24, 2008

Just picked up my copy of Obedience by Will Lavender.

Why does that name sound familiar??

Straka · Apr 24, 2008

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers by Jane Jensen. Found it in a used book store for 3 dollars

Riley · Apr 24, 2008

I'm reading Cyrano de Bergerac. Can't remember the author right now and I'm too lazy to Google it. But the story is rather disjointed right now. Too many characters at once. I'm hoping it gets better after the first act.

Just finished Dune by Herbert. Hated it, but I can see why he was so popular. Also finished a collection of Henry Kuttner's short stories and dang, that man could write.

kct webber · Apr 25, 2008

Wicked, by Gregory Maguire. Just finished it. It's a bit slow, but the world building, description and characterization are outstanding. The wicked witch of the west as a "good guy (girl)"? Who knew?

Dispite the slowness, it's worth the read, certainly. When you find yourself still thinking about and sympathizing with a character three days after your finished, the author has accomplished something.

writin52 · Apr 25, 2008

"Deadly Appraisal" by Jane K. Cleland. Antiques Roadshow meets murder. Just stared but am enjoying it immensely.

Flay · Apr 25, 2008

The Yiddish Policemen's Union, by Michael Chabon (interesting, so far).

Sheepshagger, by Niall Griffiths (meh).

Bourgeois Nerd · Apr 26, 2008

The Life before Her Eyes by Laura Kasischke. I'm dying to see the movie because it looks so compelling and I like the ideas in it. I also think Uma Thurman is an underrated actress. Her CV is compelling - she's done so many movies that I love (all genres) - the kick-ass Kill Bill movies, Heny & June (a personal favorite because I love both Henry Miller and Nin diaires), Mad Dog & Glory, Tape, etc.

Anyhow, so far the book is eerily riveting, such poetic language and images. And the author lives in Chelsea, MI! Close to me, a metro area Detroit resident.

DragonHeart · Apr 27, 2008

The Ice Dragon by George R. R. Martin. A brief intermission before I resume Midnight Tides. But honestly, there is no such thing as a truly happy ending when it comes to Martin, even in a children's book. (Yes I already finished it, but I hadn't when I started this post heh. Yay for being sidetracked yet again.)

~DragonHeart~

ACEnders · Apr 28, 2008

I'm in the middle of Obedience by Will Lavender

Will Lavender · Apr 28, 2008

I just picked up the new Lee Child.

Reacher's starting to kick ass and things are getting good.

Love me some Lee Child...

zahra · Apr 28, 2008

I'm excited - I've got a whole case of books just delivered. I've got Joel Lane's 'Lost District', Michael Laimo's 'Deep in the Darkness', Mamie Till's 'Death of Innocence', plus many others, including a reprint of Volume 2 of 'Tales from the Crypt'! I feel a 'squeee' coming on....

I'm reading Stephen King's 'Duma Key' first. I like it, but chills are thin on the ground so far (pg315). Also, hello to my main King character criticism: he needs to toughen up the chicks.

Maybe all the women I know are flinty-hearted bints, but to me, King's women cry far too often. So far, every time but one the wife comes into the story, she turns on the face-fountain. Makes me want to kick her shins. That'd give her something to cry about.

On a good note, nice to see him doing a story involving an MC and his daughter, rather than yet another son.

RebelGoddess · Apr 29, 2008

Re-reading one of my second favorite author's books:

Dead Run by P.J. Tracy

Third in the Monkeewrench series.

Even though I've known who the killer is/what the big twist it/what the person's secret is/etc., I can't get enough of the books

Racheal

RR777 · Apr 30, 2008

I'm a third of the way through "Dance of Death" by Douglas Preston and lincoln Child. Great book! Reminds me of Sherlock Holmes... and I love old Sherlock!

eveningstar · Apr 30, 2008

I just started Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth and it's lovely. I'm only through the first story but I think I might have to take my time and savor them one by one. Her Interpreter of Maladies collection is one of my all time favorites.

KikiteNeko · May 1, 2008

I just finished The Kite Runner and am reading a book called How to be Lost, though, to be honest, I'm bored as hell with it. The writing is flat and mundane. Stuff like "I put my hair into a ponytail. I went downstairs. The stairs creaked. There's a frog on the floor."

Okay maybe not quite that bad, but close. I paid for it so I'm going to finish it. Sometime. It feels more like a light, breezy read than something I can really dive into.

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