What book are you currently reading?

"Paralegal Today" - 5th edition. Textbook time!

In between chapters - "Something Under the Bed is Drooling" by Bill Watterson.

Self Matters by Dr Phil....no judging pls. It's really good!

The Man Who Left Too Soon, the biography of Stieg Larsson author of the magnificent Millenium triology.

the magicians by lev grossman

No One Here Gets Out Alive - Jerry Hopkins & Danny Sugerman

Amazing so far!

I am reading Karen Slaughter's newest book "Broken".

I love Karen Slaughter, Karen Rose, Lisa Gardner books.

Happy Reading to ya

Teach Like Your Hair is on Fire

Sorry, I edited this wrongly and so deleted it and

it appears correct below.

Kristina.

Riders On The Storm - John Densmore

Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney.

Well okay, I've convinced one of my reluctant/low-ability thirteen year olds at work to read it aloud, so it may take till Christmas. We're on page six! Yay!

The last book I read myself was The Second Life of Bree Tanner, by Stephenie Meyer. I must start reading more grow'd up books.

Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436. and the newest ruling on Miranda warnings from this June as well.

Well, that and "Enchantment Emporium" by Tanya Huff, when my brain is about to explode if I read one more court decision.

Sometimes I have to remind myself that I'm actually paying for this educational mental torture!

JBeany: looks like your course is well underway then. GO YOU GOOD THING!!! I am so delighted with this turn of events in your life.

(The practice of everyday life by Michel de Certeau, and the Foucault Reader edited by Rabinow)

Just started EAT, PRAY, LOVE. Not sure yet but i want to read it before I see it.

Quote from: kristina on May 25, 2009, 02:29:45 PM

Quote from: BigSteve on May 25, 2009, 12:55:04 PM
Just finished a great political mystery, "Child 44" by Tom Rob Smith. It's set in the last years of the
Stalin regime in the Soviet Union. It's violent at times, but it really gives you an idea of the mind-set
of the times.
That sounds very interesting and reminds me of a real Soviet-mystery I tried to figure out many years ago:
I came across the poetry of a Soviet literary critic Yuli Daniel, who also was a well known translator.
In February 1966 Yuli Daniel and his friend Andrey Sinyavsky were sentenced to forced labour at a trial in Moscow
where access to the courtroom was "severely restricted". Although the trial supposedly took place behind closed doors, with neither the public nor foreigners allowed in, only questionable fragmentary evidence ever reached the outside world,
but strangely enough, a verbatim record of the trial did leak out.
I happened upon Yuli Daniels poetry quite by chance and was taken by its poignancy immediately. He had composed it whilst in prison awaiting trial.
What I read about the trial, I felt was staged. Something felt not quite right.
The defendants appeared overly confident, in what surely must have been a very worrying situation. According to reports
mysteriously published in the West the defendants showed a boldness in their defence such that their replies occasionally bordered on jest and even insult.
This attitude I failed to comprehend as it must have been quite clear to them that their lives were hanging in the balance, as was the security
and welfare of their families. Like a play, the documents of the trial included moments of farce and drama. Both Yuli Daniel and Sinyavsky maligned
the work of Pushkin, Mayakowsky and Shakespeare and with regard to Pushkin that was surely tantamount to blasphemy in a Russian-Soviet law court.
I began to feel unconvinced that the trial was properly conducted, which led me to wonder if the trial really existed at all.
After I had read the trial's transcript, I was left with a distinct feeling of discomfort.
This reported case aroused a storm of protest in the West and many Western intellectuals like Pablo Neruda, Sartre and many others
signed petitions to support Yuli Daniel and Andrey Sinyavsky.
I am still wondering whether this was a "political media-spoof" going out of hand and whether Yuli Daniel and Andrey Sinyavsky really existed or not?
I still don't know the answers to this mystery.

The jury is still out whether the trial was a satirical hoax or not.
In a footnote to “The Trial, Yuli Daniel’s letter from camp” a photo shows Yuli Daniel & Andrey Sinyavsky being pallbearers at Boris Pasternak’s funeral.
But an official photo of Pasternak’s funeral procession shows different pallbearers.
Yuli Daniel and Andrey Sinyavsky claim to have been Pasternak’s best friends,
but write-ups do not mention Yuli Daniel or Andrey Sinyavsky as Pasternak’s friends,
in fact they are not mentioned at all.
This is very confusing and makes no sense. This mystery most certainly made me realize that literature is not quite as reliable as it is supposed to be and I shall be very careful in the future.
This experience also reminds me of the mystery about Nietzsche’s work. When I first read “Zarathustra” I realized that Nietzsche’s thoughts did not add up logically and because of this confusion I asked some Professors about it during my years as a student. These Professors had no answer either. It only became clear many years later, that Nietzsche’s work was meticulously gone through by his sister and she and her husband “cooked the books” with their own (ludicrous) thoughts. That is why Nietzsche’s work appears as if it was written by some schizophrenic. Nietzsche’s original handwriting was sealed in the Nietzsche Archive and no access was allowed to study the originals. After the fall of the Berlin wall, the “Nietzsche Archive” was finally opened and researchers were allowed to study his handwriting, to “clean” it from the handwriting of his sister and her husband.
The question is now: who are these researchers, how reliable are they & what is their angle?
I now study music and have started to play the piano. In an effort to reach the truth of a piece of music I try to find a copy of the score, or a copy of the first print.

"Freedom" by Jonathan Franzen. I've just finished "The Corrections". Before that, I finally finished Stig Larsson's Millenium Trilogy. Next up is "Father of the Rain" and "The Doctor and the Diva."

Finished Reading Lolita in Tehran. I did not find the book analyses anywhere near as compelling as her discussion of life in Iran through the revolution and after. It is incredible what some people survive. A fantastic book at any rate.

Now reading The Turn of the Screw. I don't think I've ever read any James through, or if I have, it was too long ago to remember. I also will probably read Daisy Miller as I have the collection, but this book has never called to me as it seems to do so with so many other literature enthusiasts. If nothing else, I am looking forward to seeing if I become a James convert. I am trying to read every book in our modest collection before I add stock. This will mean finally finishing my friend's favorite book Ulysses and somehow getting through the inscrutable Gravity's Rainbow.

Intrigues by Mercedes Lackey

I might start reading To Kill A Mockingbird tomorrow. I hear it's good.

Just finished Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese....loved it and of particular interest to transplant patients. Then moved on to Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb. Both books are partially set in Ethiopia.

Just picked up Tony Blair's autobiography from the library.

Beyond World's End by Mercedes Lackey

I went to the library today to see if they had Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand but the person who last took it out never returned it :(I did pick up Lies the Government Told You by Judge Andrew Napolitano, Air Battle Force by Dale Brown and The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose. I am going to read the Judge's book first.

Girl with a Pearl Earring. I've only got a smattering of pages left and so I can't bear to pick it up (you know, I really don't want it to be over, it's THAT good.)

i'm rereading harry potter and the deathly hallows so when i go see the movie i remember what is supposed to happen. and the only reason i'm not going to the midnight show is because when we went to get the tickets the theater was sold out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!