What are you reading the week of Aug 30, 2009?

[DUgosh]

The Saddlemakers Wife by Earlene Fowler

[mdmc]

1. I just finished On The Road

re-read , as I do every so often

I am not sure what my next book will be..

[mwb970]

2. The Other Side Of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald /nt

[sharp_stick]

3. It's still summer

and I've switched over to some real fluff.

The Surgeon by Tess Gerritson, recommended to me by a friend at work

Enders Game by Orson Scott Card. I know Card is a whack job Mormon fundie but I remember really enjoying this book as a kid. I took it out of the library to see how it sounds as an adult who now realizes what a prick the author is in real life.

I remember a time, early in University as an undeclared undergrad, when I thought the greatest book written was Atlas Shrugged. I couldn't stop yammering about it to all my friends. I re-read it a few months ago and realized what a poorly written brick of crap it was. I'm curious to see if the Enders Game experiment turns out the same way.

[barbtries]

4. 2 books

the easy way to stop smoking


and


felony murder

[sharp_stick]

6. It's funny how

trying to quit smoking brings up Felony Murder isn't it? Especially with all the people that tell you how they did it.

Best of luck with quitting, it can be done I did it 11 years ago now.

[barbtries]

7. lol

thanks for the support. what it is, is that i'm dragging out the reading of the book no doubt so i can continue this filthy habit that is killing me. i bought it months and months ago and left it on the table still wrapped for ages. then i took it out of the wrapper and looked at it for a few weeks. i'm almost half way through it now. a person who can routinely finish a book in a day or so.

[fadedrose]

13. I quit 2-l/2 years ago...

Bought and used about 10 bags (100 in ea bag) of menthol or cherry cough drops - store brand - and constantly had one in my mouth. I checked with the pharmacist to see if the cough drops would kill me sooner than the cigarettes ;) He said no...

I read books constantly until my eyes glazed over and fell asleep - woke up and started reading and eating cough drops, repeat the cycle...

It was only about a week ago that I stopped craving a cigarette at least 20 times a day - until then, it was very very difficult (1-11-07). And I smoked for over 54 years (am 71 now)

[The_Commonist]

5. Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

I haven't started it yet.
I'll probably crack it open this afternoon...

[niccolos_smile]

8. Lyndon by Merle Miller

Basically finishing it. I started it earlier this year - got halfway through it - but stopped to read some fiction.

[niccolos_smile]

17. Oh What a Slaughter by Larry McMurtry

Good book covering six different massacres in the Old West.

[non sociopath skin]

9. Just finished "Hackney, That Rose Red Emrire" by Iain Sinclair.

Like all his wonderfully esoteric stuff, it denies genre definition!

Also re-reading Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" as a run-up to re-reading "Ulysses".

The Skin

[closeupready]

10. The Last Voice They Heard, Ramsey Campbell

I love his narrative style. He's especially a master of the horror short story.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. "I Shall Not Want" by Julia Spencer-Fleming

the latest in a series of mysteries whose main character is a woman Episcopal priest.

[Hekate]

21. She's great, isn't she? I just read Out of the Deep I Cry.

[fadedrose]

12. Started CLIFF HANGER by Philip R. Craig nt

[sueh]

14. Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan

[Araxen]

15. A Game of Thrones

http://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Song-Fire-Book/dp/0553103547/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251809480&sr=8-1

[pscot]

20. I read about 500 hundred pages

and sent it back to the library unfinished. I found it depressing, violent and ultimately pointless. I then went back to Amazon and read the 3-star reviews of GOT and the sequelae, which basically confirmed my judgement. Martin is a skilled and imaginative writer, but this is basically a 7000+ word potboiler. To be fair, I may be an idiot, since hundreds of Amazon readers think the series is high art.

[yellowdogintexas]

29. oh that is so good, and all the rest of them too. Book Five NOW nt

[hippywife]

16. Listening is An Act of Love by David Isay.

Chapters from the StoryCorps project.

http://www.storycorps.org/

:hi:

[hippywife]

18. English Creek by Ivan Doig.

I finished Listening is an Act of Love last night and picking up English Creek on my way home. I already have Dancing at the Rascal Fair but was waiting for English Creek to come in at the library. I reserved them both at the same time to be sent to my local branch but for some reason, they missed English Creek until the librarian at my branch called them up. It was good timing anyway.

:hi:

[japple]

25. Those are wonderful books. Ivan Doig writes beautifully

and his characters are so compelling. Have you read The Whistling Season? I really liked that one.

[Broken_Hero]

19. Just finished The Source of Magic

by Piers Anthony, and it wasn't great...I don't recommend it to anyone. I'm done with Piers, I tried my best.

My next read will probably be Hearts in Atlantis by S. King, or Tommyknockers.

[Hekate]

22. Underground, by Kat Richards. Her PI, Harper Blaine, has been able to see the paranormal...

... since she died for two minutes a few years ago. It's been an adjustment for her, needless to say, but it has led to a much more interesting clientele.

Definitely recommend this series.

Hekate

[fadedrose]

24. My library has all 4 of her books - am starting this this week...nt

[fadedrose]

23. RUNNING DARK by Joseph Heywood

About 100 pages to go...

[MaineDem]

26. Island of the Sequined Love Nun

No idea how it's going to be but it seems like mindless holiday weekend fare.

[david13]

27. Cymbeline, just finished Cymbeline. And also Riding Man, about

the motorcycle races on the Isle of Man. Mark Gardiner.
He also has a dvd that I have called One Man's Island, regarding his endeavors there.
dc

[yellowdogintexas]

28. "The Queen's Man" by Sharon Kaye Pennman

loverly little mystery novel

the Queen in question is Eleanor of Aquitaine. Our Hero is her special spy and mystery solver.

Pennman has written many excellently researched biographical novels of the Plantagenet royals and these little books are set quite authentically.

My next read is Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.