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Books: What book are you reading right now
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Jim Dixon Date: 24 May 13 - 04:14 PM 'Collecting Antique Furniture' by Chester Drawers. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: kendall Date: 24 May 13 - 07:32 PM The Tiger's Revenge by Claude Balls. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Joe_F Date: 24 May 13 - 07:39 PM Pulled Winwood Reade's _Martyrdom of Man_ off the shelf. He doesn't half give it to the Christians. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Neil D Date: 25 May 13 - 12:27 AM "Death of Kings" by Bernard Cornwell |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Claire M Date: 25 May 13 - 02:57 PM Hiya, [i]50 Shades Of Grey.[/i] Saw it at a free book sharing scheme. I used to have 2 carers who were obsessed with the series, it was all they talked about, so I thought it must be worth picking up. I just don't get why – I don't think I've ever read anything so boring. If it had been something like this: "Hence, wench!" he snaps. "Look not at me for I like it not!" From the look in his burning eyes I can tell he's ready to reave me in twain with his impressive broadsword. "Lankin, I......" I whisper, my eyes spilling over. Why, when there's men all over the world, does it have to be him I can't function without?? I can't wait till I get to the end of the real book, so I can start on one of my folklore books. But then I could read fantasy till it comes out my ears so I probably shouldn't have bothered with it in the 1st place! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 25 May 13 - 06:35 PM Claire, where is it written that one must read a book to the end? You don't like, go on to the next one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Midchuck Date: 25 May 13 - 08:30 PM The Irish General: Thomas Francis Meagher, by Paul R. Wylie |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: ChanteyLass Date: 25 May 13 - 10:20 PM Looking for Yesterday by Marcia Muller, the 2012 addition to her 30 mysteries about San Francisco PI Sharon McCone. This is my own choice, not a selection for one of my book clubs. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: kendall Date: 26 May 13 - 07:31 PM I'm wading through Bernard Cornwells books. Born a thousand years too late I guess. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 26 May 13 - 08:33 PM The latest by Donna Leon. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 26 May 13 - 10:41 PM Fer flip's sake! If I was readin' a book right now...would I be on the flippin' compyuder???? How stoopid can peeple BE? I pity youse! - Shane |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Claire M Date: 27 May 13 - 02:28 PM Hiya, I would, John, but I like to finish things I start. Also a couple of psychic mags. Can anyone recommend me a good folk book?? Just passed on a Led Zep book which was brilliant. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Joe_F Date: 27 May 13 - 06:25 PM I took a big collection of H. L. Mencken's journalism to Fellsmere Park. Also, there was a swan there, as well as ducks & geese & a lot of proles out for the holiday. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Bat Goddess Date: 27 May 13 - 07:37 PM I never read just one book at a time, but I just read pretty singlemindedly through the three books that Philip R. Craig and William G. Tapply wrote together, combining both their characters J.W. Jackson and Brady Coyne on Martha's Vineyard. But I've also been reading Aldous Huxley's "The Perennial Philosophy", Murial Spark's "Memento Mori", and I'm reading (I'm rereading, but Tom's hearing it for the first time) aloud to Tom Lawrence Millman's "Last Places", his trek following the Viking sea routes from Shetland Islands, the Faeroes, Iceland, Greenland, and Labrador. Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: ChanteyLass Date: 27 May 13 - 09:56 PM Anne Perry's A Christmas Garland. It's still belongs on the library's new book shelf, but now that the season is done I guess it is no longer in demand. Once again this was a personal choice not for a book club. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Larry The Radio Guy Date: 28 May 13 - 12:40 AM "If You Meet the Buddah On The Road Kill Him":The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients, by Sheldon B. Kopp. (from 1972) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 28 May 13 - 06:05 PM Alan Dershowitz, "The Case For Israel". |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: J-boy Date: 29 May 13 - 01:45 AM "A Death in Belmont" by Sebastian Junger |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: MartinRyan Date: 29 May 13 - 01:00 PM Miles Davis's autobiography (for the first time) and RH Dana'a Two Years before the Mast (not for the first time). Regards |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 29 May 13 - 02:19 PM Hugh Dennis's Britty Britty Bang Bang. Disappointing. I like his humour on TV, but this book is lightweight to say the least. Purports to give a jokey insight into life in Britain, but Dennis manages to get himself into every paragraph! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: GUEST,EBarnacle Date: 29 May 13 - 10:52 PM Just getting into Philbrick's Bunker Hill. More about the history than I knew and well written. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: GUEST,CS Date: 07 Jun 13 - 03:55 PM Right now I'm just on the verge of completing 'A Clash of Kings' by George R R Martin which is the second volume in his 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series (currently at seven volumes, but reckoned to reach nine before it's conclusion). I'd say it's one of the best fantasy series I've ever read, maybe the best. Reads more like a historical saga with magical elements than a typical swords and sorcery affair, and I like it the more for it - George gets that all essential 'suspension of disbelief' suspending very well I think. Today however I was rifling through a box of books (we still haven't sorted out our 'study' room so books are stacked in boxes still, near two years after the move) and found some 'proper' lit including Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, neither of which I've ever got around to reading. Which set me to thinking I should really get around to reading some classics after wallowing fantasy for months! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 07 Jun 13 - 04:06 PM What book you should all be reading right now - Walkabouts: travels and conclusions in verse |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: fat B****rd Date: 07 Jun 13 - 04:56 PM The Chessmen by Peter May. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Elmore Date: 07 Jun 13 - 05:37 PM The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Joe_F Date: 07 Jun 13 - 08:49 PM Just began _Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center_ by Ray Monk, given me by my best buddy Jim. I have read a lot about Oppenheimer, beginning with the transcript of the Personnel Security Board hearings in the '50s, and it is interesting to get some background. I was put off by the title (a center is a point, dammit, and has no inside; you are *at* a center) & by the identity talk on the first page (I think Erik Erikson was a crackpot), but after that, the information about New York German Jews in the late 19th century was interesting. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: ChanteyLass Date: 10 Jun 13 - 08:44 PM "What Remains," a memoir by Carole DiFalco Radziwill, widow of Anthony Radziwill. Carolyn Bessette Kennedy was her bast friend; John Kennedy, Jr. was her husband's first cousin. It's another book club picks and more interesting than I expected. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Edthefolkie Date: 11 Jun 13 - 10:33 AM Just finished "Bring Up The Bodies" by Hilary Mantel. Astounding, better than "Wolf Hall". She actually manages to make Thomas Cromwell sympathetic in both the books. Also "How Do We Fix This Mess" by Robert Peston. A good gallop through the pain that banks, governments and international organisations have put us all through since 2008. No real solutions given though! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Bat Goddess Date: 12 Jun 13 - 08:57 AM Our bedtime read aloud book right now is a delight (really) -- "Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind". It's provoking reminiscences about my early experiences on my grandparents' small dairy farm in Wisconsin and Tom's (few) farming experiences here in New Hampshire. Plus, we've been living with a self-contained composting toilet for the past 35 years. Believe me, I know where my shit is at! Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: GUEST,Spleen Cringe Date: 12 Jun 13 - 11:48 AM "To Live Outside the Law" by Leaf Fielding. From-the-inside account of Operation Julie, the drugs bust in the 1970s that targeted the UK's biggest ever acid factory. The things the products of a British private education get up to! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: kendall Date: 21 Jun 13 - 01:41 PM I just finished "Churchill's triumph" by Michael Dobbs. It's about the conference at Yalta when FDR gave Stalin all he demanded over the objections of Churchill. In my not so humble opinion, SIR Winston Churchill, was the greatest Englishman ever. And, FDR should never have been given another term. He was old, sick and totally unfit to serve as president. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: ChanteyLass Date: 21 Jun 13 - 09:12 PM Simple Genius by David Baldacci. It was chosen by members of one of my book clubs. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Bill D Date: 21 Jun 13 - 09:51 PM Right now? Well...I just re-started Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" series. It's been 40 years since the last time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Claire M Date: 22 Jun 13 - 11:54 AM Hiya, Finally given up on 50 Shades. Started one of my 30th bday presents, 'Wintersmith' – like being in the desert & then finding a glass of water; like relief after being er, "blocked up". Aaaaahhh! Can "hear" said tunes/ songs. It's as if Pratchett's written about my upbringing – it's quite creepy actually. The other half's always freezing & I'm always hot, I'm always asleep when he's awake. Post-gig, after hearing the songs to go on said cd (one of the reasons I wanted said book of same name), I was babbling on about said songs cos I was so happy, & one of the night carers, who's foreign, looks at me gone out & says: "Oo eez Cherry Patch-It?" |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Elmore Date: 22 Jun 13 - 12:58 PM Hit Me by Lawrence Block. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: GUEST,JotSC from diff. browser Date: 22 Jun 13 - 01:13 PM "The New York Times Bridge Book" by Truscott & Truscott This is not an engineering tome. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Mrrzy Date: 22 Jun 13 - 01:18 PM Working my way back through JAJance's Beaumont series. Alternating with rereading Lawrence Sanders - I've done the commandment and deadly sin series, and will likely do Timothy next. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Jim Carroll Date: 23 Jun 13 - 03:43 AM 'Dominion' by C.J. Sansom A novel set in a fictional Britain which surrendered after Dunkirk and became a Nazi dominion. Fascinating to find out who collaborated and who didn't. Good entertaining stuff. Jim Carroll |
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Subject: RE: Books: What book are you reading right now From: Joe Offer Date: 22 May 19 - 05:19 PM Our book group is reading Being Mortal, by surgeon and Harvard Professor Atul Gawande. It's an examination of how we should respond to the end of life. The first two-thirds of the book discussed nursing homes and alternative approaches. Now I'm reading about hospice care. It's an interesting topic to explore, and very relevant to most of it. I like his common-sense, compassionate approach. There's also an interview of Gawande on the PBS Frontline program: -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Books: What book are you reading right now From: keberoxu Date: 22 May 19 - 06:21 PM I am discovering the Australian quokka. Seriously. And the author to thank for that is Anne Bishop, a USA citizen like myself. She introduces a quokka-like animal in her fantasy novel, Lake Silence; however, her more recent book, Wild Country, is a quokka-free zone populated by , let's see, bears, panthers, crows, hawks, owls, wolves, and an over-population of humans which is rather brutally, shall we say, culled. The violence in her fantasy novels can be startling, but it is leavened with a mordant black humor. For me, the books get better with more reading. |
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Subject: RE: Books: What book are you reading right now From: Mrrzy Date: 22 May 19 - 09:28 PM Funny what I was reading before... Anyway, Behave. Human kinda cognition book. |
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Subject: RE: Books: What book are you reading right now From: Joe_F Date: 22 May 19 - 09:58 PM _Machines Like Me_ by Ian McEwan. Alternative (improbable) 1980s. Weird. |
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Subject: RE: Books: What book are you reading right now From: GUEST Date: 23 May 19 - 11:53 PM This one. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics Book by Daniel James Brown |
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Subject: RE: Books: What book are you reading right now From: Helen Date: 24 May 19 - 12:40 AM In the few weeks prior to my last day at work, i.e. now on leave and will submit resignation form in a week or so, I was reading a couple of Scott Adams' books: Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook; and The Dilbert Principle. They would be extremely funny if they weren't exactly like the management antics at my ex-workplace, so in fact, the books are so real they are scary. I am so glad to be out of that funny farm! Every now and then I re-read a Clare Francis mystery fiction book. I like her clever, careful plot twists and interesting characters. I also re-read Margaret Atwood now and then. I re-read The Handmaid's Tale before the TV series started but the series was slow, annoying and not really relating to the book and then they dragged it out into another long, slow series 2, and in a couple of weeks series 3 will start here in Oz. In total, I probably fast forwarded at least 50% of the first two series by skipping the atmospheric/emotion charged scenes so I probably won't bother watching series 3 anyway. I did read an article which said that Margaret Atwood had a lot of communications from her readers and she is planning to write her own sequel. Bring it on, Ms Atwood. I can't wait for the real/intended story rather than the overdone, Hollywood-style treatment. |
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Subject: RE: Books: What book are you reading right now From: Charmion Date: 24 May 19 - 10:02 AM I tried to read "The Handmaid's Tale" and failed. Too, too sad; I can't stand to feel that angry about anything that isn't in front of my face. The top item in my bedside stack is William Manchester's "A World Lit Only By Fire". It's about the transition from medieval to Renaissance culture in Europe -- imagine a pop-lit take on Johan Huizinga's "The Waning of the Middle Ages". It was on special at our favourite bookstore, and not a bad way to while away a cold, wet spring; Manchester is a really good writer, if annoyingly prone to judge past times by the standards of today (well, 1990). I'm also picking away at a collection of A.J. Liebling, and a detective story by Peter Robinson. |
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Subject: RE: Books: What book are you reading right now From: ChanteyLass Date: 24 May 19 - 09:52 PM That was me reading The Boys in the Boat yesterday and posting at 23 May 19 - 11:53 PM. I had just logged in, which. Need to do after every time I charge this device, and I'd done so just before going to Mudcat. I'm surprised I was able to post as a guest. When I realized I needed to log in again, I did. |
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Subject: RE: Books: What book are you reading right now From: EBarnacle Date: 25 May 19 - 12:48 AM Working by Robert Caro I was able to get some family history as a result of reading this book and asking the last survivor of the appropriate age cohort about the events in the book. Lyndon by Merle Miller Both of these first two books gave me new perspectives on LBJ. I am reading them for a play in progress. Ringworld by Niven America in Chains by Maclean The latest releases from Flint and Weber The latest from Dewey Lambdin and Robert Macomber I always have several books going at a time. It keeps me from becoming stale. |
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Subject: RE: Books: What book are you reading right now From: Bonzo3legs Date: 25 May 19 - 02:07 AM The Complete Works of Thomas Chatterton. |
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Subject: RE: Books: What book are you reading right now From: Jack Campin Date: 25 May 19 - 04:37 AM Carlo Levi's "Christ Stopped at Eboli" - I was in Matera a couple of months ago. |
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Subject: RE: Books: What book are you reading right now From: Dave the Gnome Date: 25 May 19 - 06:42 AM I have been steadily re-reading all of Terry Pratchett's work but having a bit of a break now to read 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole. Very funny book and I think I am missing a lot of the humour that originates in New Orleans. I guess the humour applies to all situations though and I can relate some of the US themes to anywhere and anyone. |
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