What's everyone reading right now?

[BreweryYardRat]

I'm currently about a third of the way through Paul Grondahl's "I Rose Like a Rocket: The Political Education of Theodore Roosevelt."

It's pretty good. Detailed, but easy to read as well. Also, it's got plenty of political tips still applicable all these years later.

[Mojambo]

1. I'm finally digging into George RR Martin

I'm also reading Writing Comics with Peter David.

I have Chomsky's Failed States, but I haven't started it yet.

[BreweryYardRat]

3. Oooh, someone's being converted.

Martin is awesome. I'm assuming you're reading A Song of Ice and Fire?

I've liked what I read of Peter David's work in comics-I'll have to check that book out.

[Mojambo]

9. Yeah, this is my second stab at it and it's finally sticking.

I'm actually listening to the audio book. I can't remember the name of the guy who is reading it, but he's just fantastic. One of the better narrators I've heard.

That Peter David book is pretty good. It would be very useful to fiction writers of all stripes, not just comics.

[VenusRising]

2. I'm half way through Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Sooooooo good!!

http://www.amazon.com/Darkly-Dreaming-Dexter-A-Novel/dp/038551123X

[auntAgonist]

4. I'm about to start "Dreams of Ada"

having just finished John Grisham's "Innocent Man"


Innocent Man will leave you shaking your head, angry and sad ...


aA

[hippywife]

5. Just finished

"The Children of Men" by P.D. James. Really interesting premise. I thought it would end differently.

[bridgit]

6. M.C. Beaton - Death of a Village...

[SeattleGirl]

7. "The Great Deluge" by Douglas Brinkley.

It's about Katrina, and covers the period of time between August 27, 2005 and September 3, 2005. There is some history of NOLA, as well as a lot of personal stories from the "big" players, AND from those "ordinary" citizens who lived through it.

I'm not very far into it, but so far, it's very good.

[haf216]

17. I read it last year.

I live in southern Louisiana, and found it hard to read. It took me several months to read it because I would have to read something else for a while. I thought that Brinkley did a really good job of bring you there.

[SeattleGirl]

22. I imagine it would be hard for people such as yourself to read.

I also have Michael Eric Dyson's "Come Hell or High Water", about the racial aspect of the response (or rather, lack thereof) to Katrina. I haven't started it yet.

And you're right; Brinkley does do a good job of putting you there.

[haf216]

25. I live far enough away

that the storm did not hit me, but watching what happen in my state was still hard. Any trust that I had left in my government, was gone after that week.

[SeattleGirl]

32. I hear ya. Anytime the words "The US Government assures us...""

show up in a news report, I roll my eyes. :eyes:

[querelle]

8. A Biography Of George Platt Lynes

The grandfather of modern gay porn. Sweet.

Q

[jus_the_facts]

10. Variable Star ~ Spider Robinson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_Star

[BlueIris]

11. The Secret Language of Dreams, by David Fontana.

Very little political focus there, sorry.

[WindRavenX]

12. Paradise Lost and Catch-22

Just finished "Demon-Haunted World" by Carl Sagan. One of the best books I have ever read.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

26. Catch-22 is one of my favorites.

[Orsino]

13. Susannah Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell n/t

[Kali]

14. Just finished Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods (1998?)

Hey, you should see how far behind I am on the movie list! :rofl:

[terrya]

15. "The Crimson Petal and the White" - Michel Faber

A marvelous novel. Very Dickensian.

[misanthrope]

16. This thread**nm

*

[Dean Martin]

18. Audacity of Hope

After just finishing Dreams Of My Father - Obama.

[spinbaby]

19. Bobbsey Twins

Seriously. I got a stack of old Bobbsey Twins books on ebay and I'm reliving my childhood.

[zingaro]

20. Vine of Desire by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Great so far.

[doc03]

21. Survival of the Fittest-Johnathan Kellerman

[SeattleGirl]

23. I love Jonathan Kellerman. I have all his books.

I like his wife Faye's books, too.

[doc03]

27. Just finished one by him and his wife called

Double Homicide also read When the Bough Breaks several years ago.
My favorites are James Patterson, Tony Hillerman and Dean R. Koontz

[SeattleGirl]

31. Patterson is another of my favs.

I've read some Hillerman and Koontz, too.

[mainegreen]

24. Alastair Reynolds: Pushing Ice

[bikebloke]

28. Paris: The Secret History by Andrew Hussey

I just finished a good popcorn read - True Evil by Greg Iles

[Catshrink]

29. Walter Isaacson's Ben Franklin

it's about the bazillionth BF bio I've read and picked it off the shelf because I wanted an easy read over last weekend. (Easy because I've read a bazillion of them so kind of know the story.) Isaacson writes like a journalist, not a historian, therefore he includes a lot of personal tidbits a historian would find irrelevant. I'm really loving it. Of course, Ben is a personal hero because of his role in founding Amurika and his work as a scientist. Not to mention philosopher, diplomat, entrepreneur, and founder of free libraries, fire departments, etc. How did one man pack that much innovation success into one lifetime? He is mineboggling.

[wain]

30. Death by Meeting

One of 30 books for seminar series I am attending.

Just finished "Man's Search for Meaning" by Victor Frankl. Very moving, inspirational, thought provoking. Makes you stop and think "what is the meaning of my life, for what purpose do I exist?" I know why for me and I also know I am still searching for more meaning.

:)

[Generic Brad]

33. Secrets of an Executive Coach

I drifted by the business section in the library this afternoon and could not pry myself away from the business management books. I love my job and just want to get better at it all the time.