What are you reading?

The House's Money, Owen Sullivan. Novel with setting of mortgage meltdown. Not bad for a first novel.

--Ken

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

The Informers - Bret Easton Ellis

Night of the Generals - Hans Hellmut Kirst

Snowstorm said:

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

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Love this book.

Currently getting back into 1920s literature with The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

measure_in_love said:

Love this book.

Currently getting back into 1920s literature with The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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I just finished it! Memoirs of a Geisha kept me up until 1 a.m. until my eyes gave out. I'm back to Grimms Fairy Tales.

Re-reading Patrick White "The Tree of Man"

Snowstorm said:

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

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Also love this book!

How to Survive the Most Critical 5 Seconds of Your Life by Tim Larkin

'Things the grandchildren should know' Mark Everett.

Election by Tom Perrotta.

The perils of seeing the movie first: I'm constantly trying to remember if a certain part was in the movie, and I can't read Tracy's parts without hearing Reese Witherspoon's voice. All that said, if I'm remembering that much of it after 15 years it's obviously good.

The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson

Snowstorm said:

I just finished it! Memoirs of a Geisha kept me up until 1 a.m. until my eyes gave out. I'm back to Grimms Fairy Tales.

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SnowStorm, you have good taste in books lol. You're making me want to reread Memoirs of a Geisha now. Thanks And I'm obsessed with Grimms Fairytales. They're awesome.

Pagan Babies - Elmore Leonard

I'm reading Changeless by Gail Carriger, part of the Parasol Protectorate series.

It was recommended by goodreads from the books I've read, but I also picked it up because I saw the query letter on a literary agent's blog. I think it was pubrants? Highly recommend the series!

Just starting "Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg" by Troy D. Harman

Darkness Visible, William Styron.

Beneath the Abbey Wall: A Novel by A.D. Scott

measure_in_love wrote:

SnowStorm, you have good taste in books lol. You're making me want to reread Memoirs of a Geisha now. Thanks And I'm obsessed with Grimms Fairytales. They're awesome.

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Thank you! I hope you enjoy rereading MoaG. For Grimms' works, I want to go slower while reading them. I'm curious if there are deeper meaning the stories.

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff.

2/3 done. Fascinating stuff here about Cleopatra, but I wish Schiff would stop waxing poetic on how beautiful and sophisticated the city of Alexandria was. It's getting a bit nauseating.

Nashville: The Western Confederacy's Final Gamble by James Lee McDonough

'Lolita' Vladimir Nabokov.

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

The Bathroom - Jean-Philippe Toussaint

strawberryblondie said:

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

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Hey, me too! Just finished it, actually. It was a good read.

Nothing new on the fiction horizon for right now, though I've got my eye on Catcher in the Rye.

On the non-fiction front, Charles Darwin's On the Origin is still on hold as I'm currently reading Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos.