What book are you currently reading?

[Krisna]

I've got a couple I'm reading.  iPhone 4s for Dummies, How to Do Everything iCloud on Kindle App on PC & iphone.  On iBooks I'm reading Trial By Fire by J.A. Jance, and just started Mr. Perfect by Linda Howard.  Another one I hope to get to see is James Pattersons, 1st to Die.

I ususally read a lot but lately I've been writing.  Tring to put a family cookbook together!  And also a family history book!  Then there's my blog that needs badly updated!

[MomoMcSleepy]

I've been reading bits of "Sink Reflections" off an on.  It is from the lady who hosts Flylady.net, but my kindle Beta app keeps crashing on my touchpad.

I do have a book recommendation:
 Life Disrupted, by Laurie Edwards. 

I read it a year or two ago, and it's written by a woman with rare chronic illness, giving a real account of what it's  like to be in your 20s or 30s with chronic illness.  She has some respiratory illness, but it was still nice to read from someone who was a freak like me and hardly ever meets anyone "like" her.  My birth defects are really rare, too.  She does not have a "woe is me" attitude, she's pretty normal, and I find most "sick" people are like that, especially congenitally-ill people.  Sometimes these memoirs are recordings of tragedy dramatized by the loved ones of deceased sick people, and they get eyeroll-inducing, but Edwards is great!

http://www.amazon.com/Life-Disrupted-Getting-Twenties-Thirties/dp/0802716490/ref=pd_sim_b_8

[cariad]

I finished Don't Sleep, There are Snakes and it was an interesting story, a bit scattered and very dense with technical linguistics theory at times, but overall I am glad I put the effort forward.

I am now enjoying The Strange Career of Jim Crow.

[paris]

Read Private by James Patterson for my bookclub.  I'm not a fan of his, but that is why I am in a bookclub - to read books I normally wouldn't.  On Kindle I am reading In Leah's Wake and printed form, Biblical Archaeology.

[jbeany]

Just finished McCarthy's Bar by Pete McCarthy.  It's a travel memoir of his trip to Ireland.  If you loved Under the Tuscan Sun - don't read this one!  He's sarcastic and funny and has a unique writing style that I love.

[Kitty Cat]

I'm reading the Bright Forever by Lee Martin. Kind of a sad who dunnit type book. After this, I'm going back to my Stephanie Plum in Smokin Seventeen (Janet Evanovich)

[galvo]

DROOD by Dan Simmons. 775 pages long, it's about Charles Dickens (and is purportedly written by Wilkie Collins) who becomes 'increasingly obsessed with crypts, cemeteries, and the precise length of time it would take for a corpse to dissolve in a lime pit, Dickens ceases writing for four years and wanders the worst slums and catacombs of London at night while staging public readings during the day,gruesome readings that leave his audiences horrified. Finally he begins writing what would have been the world's first great mystery masterpiece, The Mystery of Edwin Droodonly to be interrupted forever by ...'

Rivetting!

[MooseMom]

I just finished reading "Pirate Latitudes", Michael Crichton's last book.  Someone found it in his files after he had died and decided to get it published.  It was awful.  Not in the least bit artful.

I'm now reading  "After This" by Alice McDermott, which, in contrast, is beautifully written.

Next up will probably be the latest in the "Song of Ice and Fire" series.  Did anyone see the SNL parody of "Game of Thrones" the other night?  It was SO TRUE!  LOL!

[WishIKnew]

Just finished 13 Reasons.  Teen fiction about why a girl committed suicide.  Disturbing but at the same time I could not put it down.

[cariad]

I finished The Strange Career of Jim Crow. It was enormously informative. I will find the time to share what I've learnt on one of the political threads, because, and I know this is difficult to believe, there's been some misinformation spread. *waits a moment for all to recover from this shock*

So now, heaven help me, I'm reading Portnoy's Complaint. I needed a laugh, and only 30-some pages in I've at least had a few smiles. I've never read a Philip Roth far as I can remember, and he is always talked up on his own book jackets (greatest American novelist and so forth, which is quite the bold claim). Has anyone read this particular offering? I am wondering if I will survive it. It takes place entirely as a monologue told to a psychologist, and absolutely his style is witty and rings true, but the grotesquely detailed description of the protagonist's core problem is taxing. I don't do well reading about sexual obsessions. Does anyone know a less graphic but equally celebrated Philip Roth that I could perhaps switch over to?

Boys and I are 15 pages from finishing The Magician's Elephant. Liot fell asleep while I was reading.

[Rerun]

I finished "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks " by Rebecca Skloot.  Very interesting.  True story about the cells they used from her tumor that helped with polio etc....  Yet her family can't afford health insurance.

[CebuShan]

I temporarily put down "The Seven Symphonies" to read "Explosive Eighteen" by Janet Evanovich. I knew it would be a fast read (Finished it in 3 days) So now I am going back to the Symphonies.

[kellyt]

I'm reading "Every Day A Friday" by Pastor Joel Osteen. 

[MooseMom]

I finished "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks " by Rebecca Skloot.  Very interesting.  True story about the cells they used from her tumor that helped with polio etc....  Yet her family can't afford health insurance.

That was a fascinating book.

I just finished reading "Do Not Ask What Good We Do:  Inside the U.S. House of Representatives" by Robert Draper.  It focuses on the impact of the 2010 mid-term election of the plethora of freshmen representatives, mostly Republican, and the response of the GOP leadership.  It was fascinating.

I'm also reading "A Free Life" by Ha Jin, a novel about a young Chinese family's new beginning in America in the 80s.

Next up is "My Two Moms" by Zach Wahls, an account about the author's life and how his two moms instilled in him the values of the Boy Scouts.  He was on the Daily Show tonight, and it just sounded really interesting.  I like reading about other peoples' lives especially when they differ so much from my own.  Mr. Wahls related the story where one of his moms had to go to the ER during a particularly bad episode related to her MS, but because his two moms were not legally married, the ER doctor was not obligated to speak to the patient's partner.  Apart from being unfair, that just struck me as being medically unwise, you know?  Wouldn't an ER doctor want as much reliable information as s/he could get, no matter the source? 

[Poppylicious]

I'm about to start reading Battle Royale, just to see if The Hunger Games really is anything like it. 

 

[willowtreewren]

I just finished the Hunger games trilogy. Now I'm into another Jeffrey Deaver whodunnit, Roadside Crosses.

[billybags]

I have just finished the Sidney Sheldon book "Are  you afraid of the dark"  very interesting post scrip at the back. I did not realize that Russia and the USA can control the weather. I did some research on this and sure enough they can. They can actually control and change the weather. This is bloody scary.

[Poppylicious]

I have just finished the Sidney Sheldon book "Are  you afraid of the dark"  very interesting post scrip at the back. I did not realize that Russia and the USA can control the weather. I did some research on this and sure enough they can. They can actually control and change the weather. This is bloody scary.

Apparently China can too ... Obviously we can't in England otherwise we would have had the last three weeks of constant heavy rain back in the autumn, thus negating the need for a panic-stricken (how are we going to wash our cars without hosepipes!!) drought.

Kim Jong-il of North Korea could control the weather with his mind, as if by magic.  Honest.

 

[Kitty Cat]

I'm outside my normal reading realm, I'm reading Voices From the Titanic. It is the telling of the sinking by people who were there, what they told the senate after the sinking, there are also media accounts, it's as if you've been taken back in time to that era. Very descriptive. It is really good.

The book starts with the finishing of the construction of the ship to the launch and the things people did on ship until the crash. I'm about half way through, I've been sick so reading is keeping me sane right now. This book is well worth reading.

[frankswife]

I'm about halfway through Game of Thrones.

[WishIKnew]

Loving the book Defending Jacob.  Really into it.  I'm a little over half way.

 

[paris]

Our latest book club pick for June is "Beekeepers Apprentice".   Has anyone read it?   I do the book club to read things I might normally not read.   I have company coming --- I can't read until they leave or I will get no cleaning done!  The book will always win.   

We should have a book club and pick one book a month and then share thoughts.   Have we talked about that and I have forgotten?  Kidney failure = no memory   

[Poppylicious]

I'm about halfway through Game of Thrones.

Is it any good?  I'm enjoying the second series on the telly (I think there's only one episode left) and am wondering if reading it will be a good idea now that I've become familiar with the characters through vision and sound.

I'm currently chilling with the kids ... I just can't stop myself from visiting the Young/Teenage Fiction shelves in the local library.  They do make for very easy reading on the bus.

 

[Traveller1947]

"The Beekeeper's Apprentice" is a favorite of mine, as are all the books in that series.  I love that the main character had a double major--chemistry and theology.  I thought I was the only one!  Thanks for reminding me of that good book...A book club would be fun--count me in!

[WishIKnew]

@ Paris - I love an IHD book club!