What are you reading?

The Good Man Jesus & The Scoundrel Christ - Philip Pulman

Just finished AW's own Jessica Sims aka irysangel(?) Beauty dates the beast. Very, very good. Can't wait for the sequel.

About to start Iris Johansen's Eight days to live

The Two Mrs.Grenvilles by Dominick Dunne

The Sixth Man by David Baldacci

Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse

Kiss Me, Judas - Will Christopher Baer

Great so far. I've read half of it this afternoon. Can't put it down.

Just finished The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach. Fantastic novel, I literally couldn't put it down over the weekend haha.

Next up: A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving. I've heard great things about this one, expectations are high!

We had a couple of Bill Bryson books at home and I read I'm a Stranger Here Myself over the weekend. Because it's based on columns he wrote for a UK magazine, there are lots of 3-5 page chapters filled with Bryson's witty observations.

Just finished the first essay in Pulphead, Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan. There are several more to go but so far, so good.

The Dwarves of Death - Jonathan Coe

The Godfather by Mario Puzo.

Janet Evanovich's Smokin' Seventeen.

Reading Lily of the Nile by Stephanie Dray, about Cleopatra's daughter. And just started Stolen Summer by SA Meade (our own Firedrake).

G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who was Thursday (Dover reprint of the 1908 novel). And a bunch of other stuff.

--Ken

Mona Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson

I just finished the Marriage Plot - I liked it once I got past the first part - it was a little too academic for me and made me glad I didn't go to an ivy league (not that I had the credentials to get into one) or major in english lit - ha ha!

cmi0616 said:

Just finished The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach. Fantastic novel, I literally couldn't put it down over the weekend haha.

Next up: A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving. I've heard great things about this one, expectations are high!

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I read a Prayer for Owen Meany when it came out in paperback. I still think of that book. I like older John Irving books.

cmi0616 said:

Just finished The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach. Fantastic novel, I literally couldn't put it down over the weekend haha.

Next up: A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving. I've heard great things about this one, expectations are high!

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I loaned A Prayer for Owen Meany to my neighbor and he took a sick day from work just to finish reading it. The hook was set pretty deep.

adm said:

I read a Prayer for Owen Meany when it came out in paperback. I still think of that book. I like older John Irving books.

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I read Garp over the summer and fell in love with it. I haven't read any of his work since though. I'm about 75 pages in, it's a little slow so far but there's 600-something pages left to go, so we've got time haha.

The Forgotten Affairs of Youth, by Alexander McCall Smith

Isabel tries to help a young woman who's looking for her biological father...and eats some possibly poisonous mushrooms.

"The End of Faith" by Sam Harris.

Just finishing Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi. YA. Pretty darn good.

The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark

Wormwood Gentleman Corpse

I just downloaded HP Lovecraft's complete works from Amazon for my Kindle and have read one page so far.

I listened to the second disc of Rick Riordan's YA novel, Throne of Fire several times in the past week because I keep forgetting where I left off. =/

And earlier this year, I read the first page of Crime and Punishment

Self! Please try to stay in the present moment and pay attention for once, D: