What's the last book you read?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

Mine: 1984

:popcorn: :popcorn:

[Ava]

1. Four Trials by John Edwards

[Momgonepostal]

2. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides

It was EXCELLENT! I'll probably think about the main characters from time to time for years.

[jane_pippin]

21. Isn't it wonderful? I love that book.

And every time someone mentions it I have to nerd out and say, "I love that book!" because it's so frickin' great I can't help myself.

I have to nerd out further and say as a PSA of sorts:
If you haven't read it yet, please read it. It's a modern classic. Really. I promise. :D

[FuzzySlippers]

3. The Three Little Pigs.

:popcorn: :popcorn:

[msatty99]

4. I read "hitlers war" now I am reading Kite runner

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

5. Gnostic Philosophy : From Ancient Persia To Modern Times

Gnostic Philosophy : From Ancient Persia To Modern Times by Tobias Churton

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594770352/104-5475485-9773534?v=glance&n=283155

[laheina]

10. Oooo! I so bookmarked that.

Thanks for the link. :)

[Dinger]

6. One Man's Wilderness, An Alaskan Odyssey

By Sam Kieth from the journals of Richard Proenneke

Awesome, just awesome.

[electricmonk]

7. Lee Miller-A Life

I wish I knew how to write a screenplay. Lee was easily one of the most incredible women of the early-mid 20th century and deserves to have a big budget bio-pic made about her life.

Lee Miller-A Life

[BlueIris]

8. Nella Larson--Passing.

Good book. Under-recognized classic of the Harlem Renaissance.

[BrotherBuzz]

9. The Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns by Davis

Lousy history but a very interesting glipse into the mindset of what Americans in 1898 expected. Jingism comes of age.

"There is much talk about 'jingoism'. If by 'jingoism' they mean a policy in pursuance of which Americans will with resolution and common sense insist upon our rights being respected by foreign powers, then we are 'jingoes'." - Theodore Roosevelt in an October 8, 1895 interview in the New York Times,

[RebelOne]

11. The Taking by Dean Koontz.

Now reading Forever Odd by Koontz. Love him and Stephen King.

[BlueIris]

12. And, oh, darn, I forgot. The Best American Poetry, 1992.

I've been trying to get my hands on all of the BAP anthologies, lately, for my collection. So far, I've got '92, '94, '95, '98, 2000, 2001, 2002 and the Best of the Best American Poetry, '88-'97. Yeah. I know. I shouldn't torture myself this way. Poetry from the Age Before Bush? So depressingly hopeful.

[lakemonster11]

13. Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson

I'm starting the second one now.

[miss_american_pie]

14. Delta of Venus, Anais Nin

[WritingIsMyReligion]

15. The Great Gatsby.

Awesome book. And yes, I read it for English.

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[miss_american_pie]

16. I love that book

:thumbsup:

[GOPisEvil]

17. I am currently re-reading "The Caine Mutiny" by Herman Wouk

[auntAgonist]

18. Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman. (Kaneko Fumiko)

Translated by Jean Inglis
Intro by Mikiso Hane

From the back cover:

"Her views were remarkable for a young woman with hardly any formal education who had grown up in an atmosphere where patriotism and loyalty to the emperor were viewed as the moral core of Japanese life. Defiant to the end, she hanged herself in prison at the age of 23 years. This readable book provides a clear account of the author's views expressed candidly, courageously and decisively."
--Studies on Women Abstracts

[stepnw1f]

19. Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight

by Thom Hartmann

[jane_pippin]

20. The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell by John Crawford

Actually, I'm only about halfway through it now, but it's good. He's coming to town next week--Wisconsin DUer's, check the WI forum for information on the reading if you're interested.

The last book I finished was "Lipshitz Six or Two Angry Blondes" by T. Cooper. It's about a family of Jewish immigrants who come to America in the early 1900's and lose one of their kids at Ellis Island. The mother, over time, becomes convinced that Charles Lindbergh is her long lost son and becomes obsessed with the pilot's life, sometimes to the point of neglecting her own family. It follows a few generations of the family through narrative and news clippings ending with the last of the family line in present day New York. I thought it was a good book for the most part but unfortunately it had some quirky twists and turns that I didn't think fit in with the rest of the story and they ended up making what should have been a really good book into something of a disappointment. Ah well. They can't all be amazing, right? :)

[BikeWriter]

22. The last one I read was one I'd written. ;-)

[Ikonoklast]

23. The Hat In The Ring Gang

The Combat History of the 94th Aero Squadron in World War I by Charles Wooley.

OK, so I'm something of a history nerd, but Medal of Honor winner Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker is a hero of mine.

I named my company after the nickname for the 94th Aero.

[mitchum]

24. Herzog on Herzog (while listening to Blonde on Blonde)

[riona]

25. The Lincoln Lawyer

[bikebloke]

26. The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury

A popcorn thriller à la The DaVinci Crap. Though not immediately forgettable as Dan Brown's work.

[guinivere]

27. The Pet Goat

Actually, I just finished The Philosophy of Andy Warhol.



I would like to toss in another big :thumbsup: for Middlesex.

[Nicole]

28. A Ceiling of Sky by Pat Ross

[kwassa]

29. King Leopold's Ghost

which I am still reading.

about colonialism at it's very worst, the colony of the Congo, personally owned by King Leopold of Belgium, a monster in human form.

[Left Is Write]

30. "The Third Secret" by Steve Berry.

I finished that last weekend; last night I started "The DaVinci Code." (Yeah, yeah, I'm behind the times - I was waiting for it to come out in paperback.)

In line next: "The Romanov Prophecy" by Steve Berry
"No Place Like Home" by Mary Higgins Clark

After that, I'll need to acquire "The Templar Legacy" by Steve Berry

[yellowdogintexas]

31. "Vienna Prelude" by Bodie Thoen. A pre WWII

set in Germany, Austria and environs beginning in late 1936...persecution, insanity (HITLER), heroism, sheeple, the good old works.

Just finished it and moving to its sequel..Prague Interlude/

[Radical Activist]

32. Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter.

Pretty good. I may lend it to a less politically aware Republican-leaning friend of mine.

[MiniMandaRuth]

33. I can't remeber....

Either Memoirs of a Geisha or Among the Hidden....

[ismnotwasm]

34. Otherland--"The Sea of Silver Light"

Fourth book in a decent sci-fi by Tad Williams.