What are you reading?

I'm currently reading The Color of Water by James McBride ... Which I should probably be reading right now rather than being online.

Robert B. Parker, Painted Ladies.

--Ken

The Law of Happiness by Henry Cloud

Dave Eggers: Hologram for the King

Just finished Cold Days. Man, that ending... :<

Anyway, now moving on to Old Man's War by John Scalzi.

The Professor of Desire - Philip Roth

HarryHoskins said:

The Professor of Desire - Philip Roth

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Why, HarryHoskins, you old darling! Why aren't you making us a crossword?

BDB Book 5

Every year I create a facebook note for all books I read during the year. Here's my last 10 days...

How The Beatles Destroyed Rock And Roll - An Alternative History Of American Popular Music by Elijah Wald
Where Men Win Glory - The Odyssey Of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
A Natural Woman - A Memoir by Carole King
Proof Of Heaven - A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into The Afterlife by Eben Alexander, M.D.
...currently Exploding The Gene Myth by Ruth Hubbard & Elijah Wald

BongoFury said:

Every year I create a facebook note for all books I read during the year.

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Oh that's a good idea. I may appropriate (i.e., steal) that.

Right now, Fool Moon by Jim Butcher. Book 2 in the Dresden Files series. Fun urban fantasy.

ETA: just finished it, now i'm running around the house turning the lights on. skeered of the dark now.

The Girl Who Chased the Moon - Sarah Addison Allen

Tell No One - Harlan Coben

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, which after reading Jane Eyre comes at you like a truck. (Not unpleasant, mind. A truck filled with flowers.)

Patient Zero , Jonathan Maberry.

Gideon's Trumpet, by Anthony Lewis. I'm finding it fascinating, but I'm kind of a legal geek, by inclination and profession.

The Prestige by Christopher Priest

Finishing up The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler. Fantastic.

Simultaneously reading Nightmare Town by Dashiell Hammett.

I've been on a hard-boiled, noir reading streak since 2012. God, what an awesome style genre of storytelling.

City of Bones- Cassandra Clare

The Animal Factory - Edward Bunker

mccardey said:

Why, HarryHoskins, you old darling! Why aren't you making us a crossword?

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Angry! *


*Oh, I see, you meant--well, I guess I could put on my thinking trilby and come up with an amateur load of something, sometime.

The Year of the Jackpot (The Galaxy Project) by Heinlein.

Finished Maugham's Of Human Bondage. I have to say I was dissapointed. There were at least 100 pages that should have been cut, the prose was lazy in some places, and Philip Carey has got to be the most frustrating character I've ever come across.

In any event, in a quest to get to some more of the classics I haven't read, I just started Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls. I've heard good things, so hopefully I'm in for a treat.

I'm currently reading Nick Harkaway's The Gone-Away World, which so far is crazy and brilliant. Starts out as vivid SF and then doubles back for a series of beautifully written flashbacks.

sennydreadful said:

I'm currently reading Nick Harkaway's The Gone-Away World, which so far is crazy and brilliant. Starts out as vivid SF and then doubles back for a series of beautifully written flashbacks.

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Somebody recommended that to me last year, which is why it's on my A-Z reading challenge list for this year. Looking forward to checking it out.

Eternally Lost Zeppo said:

Somebody recommended that to me last year, which is why it's on my A-Z reading challenge list for this year. Looking forward to checking it out.

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It's great! He has an incredibly likeable writing style that really draws you in - plus it's very funny.

HarryHoskins said:

The Animal Factory - Edward Bunker

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Eddie Bunker is awesome, he was a novelist, screen-writer, and actor.

I'm just finishing up Unrepentant Sinner, the autobiography of Col. Charles Askins. He shot a hell of a lot of people and animals on several continents.