What book are you currently reading?

[Riki]

I'm rereading my Dark Shadows books in preparation for the third book in the series (and hopefully not the last) being released on August 1st.

I am reading Angelique's Descent right now, and when that's finished, I'll move on to The Salem Branch.  The third book is called Wolf Moon Rising.

They are written by Lara Parker, who played Angelique in the Dark Shadows TV series.

[jbeany]

Must be a re-read month.  I started back at book one of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher.  I've had the 15th in the series for ages, but haven't gotten to it yet because it's always ages between new ones, and I wanted to start over before I read the latest.  I finally started.  I'm on book 8.

[skg]

I'll have to add Dresden Files to my re-read list. It's been a long time since I read the first one.

Read through several volumes of the manga "20th Century Boys." It was quite good. But now I've got a dozen more to locate and pay for!

cheers,
skg

[Sugarlump]

Finished Another Man's Life by Greg Williams.
Excellent book.
Now about to start his other one The Accidental Father.
Looks just as good.

[willowtreewren]

I am reading "Come Spring" by Ben Ames Williams.

It is a historical fiction with the setting in the area where Iketchum lives. Ahem. Iketchum sent it to me. I Love trying to picture this and look at the map in the front of the book every couple pages. The next time I visit Iketchum, I'll be sure to traipse around the area more.

Aleta

[frankswife]

Just finished Stephen King's Joyland. Ok book, would make a good movie. I'm starting George Lopez' Why You Crying? next.

[jbeany]

Okay, so I miscounted - Book 15 in the Dresden files isn't out yet.  And no release date posted either.  *sigh* 

Guess I'll have to find something else to start on now!  I've got a stack of Anne Bishop stuff I haven't started on either - I should start over with those as well...

And The Princess Bride - there's always that....

[Dannyboy]

"Into Thin Air"---Jon Krakauer

[skg]

Just read John McPhee's _Coming into the Country_ -- very nice non-fiction about Alaska. If you've never read any McPhee, give it a try -- he takes all sorts of subjects and makes them fascinating by taking a deep look at whatever the subject is and looking at it from many different directions.

[jbeany]

Just finished "Sailing Grace" by John Otterbacher.  It's his memoir of sailing around the world with his wife and two small daughters after having so many heart problems the docs were talking about possible transplants.  His wife was one of my professors and teaches part of the law school clinic class I volunteer with, so it was interesting to see her from her husband's perspective!  He's an amazing writer, too, which never hurts....

[galvo]

Karin Slaughter's "fractured". She's good on the gory, our Karin!

[Poppylicious]

I've just finished The Angel at No. 33, by Polly Williams.  It's British chick lit. The protagonist is a thirty-something woman who dies within the first few pages of the book and we get to see how her family and friends cope through her eyes.  It wasn't bad and had equal measure of laugh-out-loud moments and must-grab-a-hanky moments.  It was very 'human' in its emotions.

I have three books waiting for me to read them; two Kurt Vonnegut and one David Sedaris.  I'm not sure which to go with first, but suspect it'll be a Vonnegut because they're always in demand within the county library.

 

[cariad]

I have three books waiting for me to read them; two Kurt Vonnegut and one David Sedaris.  I'm not sure which to go with first, but suspect it'll be a Vonnegut because they're always in demand within the county library.

*boggle*
Really?
I've yet to meet the Brit on the streets (so to speak) who's heard of Vonnegut. I've always suspected that Brits that have read him looked down on him because his writing is simple, yet so gorgeous somehow, more so than Hemingway I've found. I think JD Salinger is the American icon you outgrow but Vonnegut is the writer that will find his way into your thoughts for life. I still cannot hear the phrase "take a leak" without thinking "where I come from, that means stealing a mirror". You've probably read more Vonnegut than I have by now, Poppy. That sorta makes me feel inferior, like I can't even manage to be better at American pursuits.... Ah well. The feeling shall pass. 

I've known people like David Sedaris, or at least like he claims to be - shunning anything remotely popular and favouring flea markets and gaudy religious art. On a personal level, I cannot get away from those types fast enough, they are forever judging what you like as not hip enough for them, and yet I did laugh aloud at bits of Me Talk Pretty One Day and his story of being a Macy's elf. I had Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim on an audio file but I only got to listen to one story (on dialysis, no less, barely conscious) and then my MP3 player was lost or stolen and I've not bothered with it since.

I'm reading Gone Girl and getting more annoyed with the author's style by the moment. I recall NPR said it had an ending "that you will not see coming". This had better be worth it, because I saw the ending of The Maids coming from a considerable distance and the ending of Like Water For Elephants did not justify the pain. I should really return to my Nobel prize winners. They almost always deliver writing I adore.

[Riki]

I've never read much of David Sedaris, but I'm a huge fan of his sister, Amy.  I think I need to start a quest to meet her, so I can get her to sign my copy of Wigfield: The Can Do Town that Just May Not, which is written by Amy, Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello.  I have Colbert and Dinello's autographs on the book already.  Amy Sedaris' signature on the book would complete the trilogy.

[willowtreewren]

I picked up JK Rowling's "Casual Vacancy" on a whim this week. It is delicious to be able to enjoy reading again, and this one is delicious in its own way. But it IS dark, and I'm not sure I will be pleased with it overall. Time will tell.

[Riki]

I've been meaning to read that one as well.. perhaps I will try to get a copy of it from the library and read it between the newest of my Dark Shadows books, which comes out August 20, and the rereading of my Hunger Games books that I'd like to do before the next movie comes out.

I did try to get a copy of it from the library a few months ago, but every copy in the province was out and there was a wait list

[cariad]

Gone Girl has got much better. I did, however, instantly pick up on the 'New Carthage' reference, as would any theatre aficionado, so I suspected much of what would happen before it happened, so far anyhow. I think it may get more surprising, though.

[MooseMom]

I just got Reza Aslan's Zealot from my husband for my birthday.  I had expressed an interest in it before the Fox News hooha, and now I'm glad to see it is flying off the bookshelves!

[Poppylicious]

I have three books waiting for me to read them; two Kurt Vonnegut and one David Sedaris.  I'm not sure which to go with first, but suspect it'll be a Vonnegut because they're always in demand within the county library.

*boggle*
Really?
I've yet to meet the Brit on the streets (so to speak) who's heard of Vonnegut. I've always suspected that Brits that have read him looked down on him because his writing is simple, yet so gorgeous somehow, more so than Hemingway I've found. I think JD Salinger is the American icon you outgrow but Vonnegut is the writer that will find his way into your thoughts for life. I still cannot hear the phrase "take a leak" without thinking "where I come from, that means stealing a mirror". You've probably read more Vonnegut than I have by now, Poppy. That sorta makes me feel inferior, like I can't even manage to be better at American pursuits.... Ah well. The feeling shall pass. 

To put my comment more into persepctive: the county library appears to have just one each of six Vonnegut books (they did have seven but I broke Slaughter-house Five and they sold it to me for 50p) so whenever I've requested a book I've had to wait in a queue of at least one.  Still, I suppose that might still be a tad boggling!  I don't look down on him; I find him amazing, easy to digest, sad, funny and thought-provoking, but I'm still in the early stages of Vonnegut pleasure!  In many respects he contradicts everything I believe, yet at the same time I believe and trust everything he writes, which is probably ridiculously insane. 

 

[MooseMom]

I'm rereading my Dark Shadows books in preparation for the third book in the series (and hopefully not the last) being released on August 1st.

I am reading Angelique's Descent right now, and when that's finished, I'll move on to The Salem Branch.  The third book is called Wolf Moon Rising.

They are written by Lara Parker, who played Angelique in the Dark Shadows TV series.

My husband bought Angelique's Descent for me some months ago, but I haven't gotten to it yet.  Was it good?

[galvo]

Pops - you broke Slaughterhouse Five!! You broke it?

I've just started The Chalk Girl by Carol O'Connell. A crime tale starring the fabulous NYPD detective Kathy Mallory. Ab Fab!!!

[jbeany]

Martha Stewart Holiday Crafts.  Christmas craft shows are coming - time to make stuff to sell now!

[CebuShan]

If Looks Could Kill by M. William Phelps

[Poppylicious]

I had a one and a half hour bus ride to meet my MiL for lunch yesterday and managed to get through half of Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut. I then managed to finish the book whilst on the one and a half hour ride back from town. Sometimes there are benefits to having a lack of driving skills and living in the middle of nowhere. I only ever read in the bath or on the bus so I've read very little over the last four and a half weeks.  When I'm back at work I'll be reading for England again.

I like to see people reading books on the bus (or anywhere).  It's really frustrating when someone sits down with a Kindle (or equivalent) and I have to read over their shoulder to see what they're reading ... at least with a book - which clearly displays its title and author on the cover - I don't have to be so rude and space-invading! 

 

[Sugarlump]

Sadly I can't find a bus round here to sit on and read!!!
But I do read at dialysis, on the sofa and in bed when i can't sleep Poppy! 

Just finishes reading MINETTE WALTERS and THE DEVIL'S FEATHER
It was a good story but strange. The end was even stranger. The last chapter seemed irrelevant to the whole book (in my opinion)