What are you reading the week of March 15, 2009?

[DUgosh]

Fluke by Christopher Moore. :thumbsup: It is a whale of a good time.

and on tape......One Dead Dean by Bill Crider.

[MadMaddie]

1. Naomi Klein, "Shock Doctrine".

Only on the second chapter....must read.

[barbtries]

2. DU

and myriad associated links. :)
and...vanity fair. the ostensible book of the moment is Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States

[BlueJac]

3. "The New Golden Age" by Ravi Batra

Good read, a very smart economist.

[sendittozoom]

4. "Nightmares," by a journalist who lived through the Holocaust,

"The New History of Auschwitz," "The Secret Life of Otto Frank," and "Eat, Pray, Love."

[RubyDuby in GA]

5. Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts

That is when I can find a couple of spare moments with a soon to be 3 year old boy running around!

Actually, I read alot of Goodnight Moon, Please Baby Please, etc... :)

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Thunderstruck by Erik Larsen

Actually better than I thought it would be, the story of Marconi's invention of the wireless, and of
England's famous murderer, Dr. Crippen.
And reading The Colony, story of Molokai, the infamous leper colony.

I usually have 2-3 books going at a time.

[jus_the_facts]

7. Drood ~ Dan Simmons

http://www.dansimmons.com/news/news_items.htm

[BOSSHOG]

13. I recently read his "The Terror"

Holy Crap, talk about a depressing way to make a living. Based on a true story about English ships getting stuck in ice for more then two years in the 1840's. Living conditions sucked. Horribly.

[david13]

8. The Third Coast, Edward Ted McClelland

About the Great Lakes. He travels all around them. Very interesting.
dc

[grammysandie]

9. "The Fatal Shore" by Robert Hughes

The birth of Australia via the convict colonies.

[saltpoint]

10. The Names. Don DeLillo.

It's a humdinger.

[WCGreen]

15. Pretty much anything by DeLillo is good stuff...

[MrCoffee]

11. Slumberland by Paul Beatty

A good read...Beatty can turn a phrase.

[pscot]

12. The Levanter, by Eric Ambler

This was written 40 years ago, but it reads like yesterday's headlines. A family business, headquartered in Damascus, is first co-opted by the Syrian government, then infiltrated by Palestinian terrorists. The young owner plots to rescue the family fortune and extract himself from the coils of the terrorists.

[jellen]

14. reading The Shack

I'm reading "The Shack" by Wm. Paul Young. Pretty good !

[PuraVidaDreamin]

16. Just finished, Breakfast with Buddha

Such delightful fun
by Roland Murello

[Onceuponalife]

17. If Chins Could Kill

Confessions of a B Movie Actor by the legend himself, Bruce Campbell.

[mzteris]

18. Chung Kuo by David Wingrove

Book One: The Middle Kingdom: The first book in a projected series of seven is set 200 years in the future, when the world's 34 billion people are ruled by a sort of pre-Communist version of China. Monarchs have ruthlessly suppressed all knowledge of pre-Empire conditions and technology, hoping to maintain their fragile control as some Europeans push for the right to build a starship. Court intrigue, propriety and "face" count for more than talent or skill in this clearly evoked, decadent and threatened society.

Pretty interesting and "different". I like different. :)

I recently finished Brisingr, Book 3 of the Eragon series by Christopher Paoli

. . . speaking of Dragons, The Temeraire series is cute, too (Naomi Novik). I've finished 4 and need to obtain Book 5.

I'm also reading through several books of short-stories:

The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens: First Annual Collection (I bought it for my 15 yo, but . . . lol), and

The Baum Plan for Financial Independence: and Other Stories


hmmmmmmmmm........... what else: I bought a bunch of old Andre Norton books yesterday that's in my "to read" pile, along with a Sheri Tepper (Companions) I seem to have missed somewhere along the way. Though it's always a crap shoot with her, either they're really really good, or really really awful.

[YankeyMCC]

19. Have you heard of The Celestial Empire stories by Chris Roberson

I've only read a few of the short stories so far. They were interesting and entertaining enough for me to want to read the full novels and others.

http://www.chrisroberson.net/2008/09/new-celestial-empire-story-mirror-of.html

[mzteris]

21. That sounds pretty interesting . . .

Thanks!

[grillo7]

20. Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919 by Ann Hagedorn...really interesting so far n/t