What are you reading the week of May 1, 2010?

[DUgosh]

Lamb by Christopher Moore

[Mojambo]

1. That is a HILARIOUS book

I'm actually reading mostly non-fiction right now, The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius at the moment.

I'm also listening to The Road by Cormac McCarthy on audiobook. A decidedly NOT hilarious book, as it turns out.

[FlaGatorJD]

2. Earth by Bill McKibben n/t

[peacebird]

3. "Botany in a Day" and "Field Guide to the Piedmont"

tho I am in the final weeks of the Virginia Master Naturalist training so that may make my book choices moot...

[philly_bob]

4. Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard. Streetwise noir dialog. (nt)

[KT2000]

5. Water for Elephants

by Sara Gruen

[abluelady]

6. "Imperfect Birds" by Anne LaMott

[azmouse]

7. "Rocket Men" by Craig Nelson

It's about the race to the moon.

[NEOhiodemocrat]

8. Every Last One by Anna Quindlen

Started it last night after supper and stayed up till 3 to finish it. Good "chick book" as my husband would say!
"Mary Beth Latham has built her life around her family, around caring for her three teenage children and preserving the rituals of their daily life. When one of her sons becomes depressed, Mary Beth focuses on him, only to be blindsided by a shocking act of violence. What happens afterwards is a testament to the power of a woman's love and determination, and to the invisible lines of hope and healing that connect one human being to another. Every Last One is a novel about facing every last one of the things we fear the most, about finding ways to navigate a road we never intended to travel, and about living a life we never dreamed we'd have to live, but find ourselves brave enough to try."

[SaveOurDemocracy]

9. The Darkest Room by Johan Theorin. Recommended!

A mix of mystery and ghost story that I very much enjoyed.


Also recently finished: The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan

[MrCoffee]

10. VALIS by Philip K. Dick

Reading it for the 12th time. Harcourt is publishing "The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick" in 2 volumes beginning next year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/books/30author.html?hpw

[mainstreetonce]

11. Those Who Save Us

Those Who Save Us Jenna Blum

Set in WWII Germany............a moral crisis for a woman in a village occupied by the Nazis. Very well written

[NEOhiodemocrat]

15. Just picked it up at the library yesterday after your recommendation

Going to start it this evening. Thanks!

[hippywife]

20. I think this is the book that

my best friend in Chicago told me about when she called today to make sure we were safe after all the tornados last night. I forgot to write it down. :blush:

[hippywife]

12. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad (non-fiction)

Just finished it. It was a quick and easy read. Really cemented my opinion that we need to just get the hell outta there. No way to win anything in that culture of warlords and internal strife.

[fadedrose]

13. THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW by Allan Folsom

593 pp. - took a while to read. Fast-moving, exciting, always something happening.

Thought I'd never finish - but look forward to the next book with Det. McVey and Dr. Osborn....if there were one.

[fl_dem]

14. American Gods by Neil Gaiman

NOT because it's Twitters very first "One Book" (twittter book club) but because I coincidently picked it up at my local Goodwill on my lunch hour a couple of days ago. Its kinda weird knowing there are thousands of people reading the same book as I right now.

Enjoying it tremendously.

[MaineDem]

16. "The Brightest Star in the Sky" by Marian Keyes

Still. It's very good.

[WCIL]

17. The Help came in for me at the library this week

if anyone has read it, I need to know if it is going to be as depressing as it looks to be. I am absolutely not in the mood right now for anything that is going to seriously drag me down.

I finished Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee, and started a mystery by Chris Grabenstein called Tiltawhirl. So far, so good. I also have The Omnivore's Dilemma and Food Inc.

[fadedrose]

19. I read TILT-A-WHIRL and..

all 6 about Danny & Ceepak. Not great, but very readable and not depressing. Sometimes I get in the mood for books like this. Will try some of his other books about other characters one of these days..

[hippywife]

21. The Help is not depressing.

It does depict some pretty bigoted people in it but I think you will be fine reading it and very satisfied with it.

The Omnivore's Dilemma is an excellent read. I am re-reading it between requests at the library. I put it down when a new one comes in but I am picking up good reminders from it by reading a few chapters again in between my other ones. One thing I would suggest, though, is not to read the introduction before reading the book. If I had read the intro first, I would have not made it past it. It's terribly boring and the book is so enlightening it needs to be read.

Welcome to DU. :hi:

[fadedrose]

18. SLIPKNOT by Linda Greenlaw

Exciting ending - likable main character... lots of fishing boat terminology that I found difficult to understand..

The sentences don't flow, where you can read the book easily. The author seems to be trying too hard. I think she'll be okay in a few more books.