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What book are you reading?

Posted on July 24, 2010 at 9:26 AM

What book are you reading now?

   

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Reply Stendhal
02:27 PM on July 29, 2010 
Marie Manilla says...
Stendhal: You MUST put Cat's Eye on your Atwood reading list. I think it's my favorite novel of hers.


I know! I actually have that novel on my bookshelf but when I tried reading it last year the stars just wouldn't allign and I couldn't get through it. But after I finish the Penelopead I plan to return to it. Thanks for the recommendation.
Reply Meghan Salter
03:25 PM on July 28, 2010 
I am reading all of the True Blood Books. Very Entertaining and great beach reads!
Reply Marie Manilla
11:01 AM on July 28, 2010 
Stendhal: You MUST put Cat's Eye on your Atwood reading list. I think it's my favorite novel of hers.
Reply Stendhal
10:28 AM on July 28, 2010 
I am reading The Penelopead by Margret Atwood. When I find an autor I like I pretty much have to finish everything by that author. I've read The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake and have The Eadible Woman waiting for later.
Reply scoutdil@aol.com
11:10 AM on July 26, 2010 
THE UNCOMMON READER and now waiting for a library copy of THE BOOK WHISPERER.

Recently finished the two novels of Jonathan Safran Foer and would enjoy hearing what other readers think of his style and content, ect.
Reply Eddy
08:35 PM on July 25, 2010 
FREAKONOMICS is an interesting one. THE BLACK SWAN might be something you'd like, too. More superficial, but along the same lines are Malcolm Gladwell's books THE TIPPING POINT and OUTLIERS. I sort of hate to recommend Gladwell, as I think his knowledge is a mile wide and an inch deep; ; but his books are entertaining.

I'm on a Lee Child (mystery writer) jag, I'm ashamed to say. I like the action (the hero wins almost every fistfight) and the short sentences. Less embarrasing to admit is that I'm reading Kingsolver's LACUNA, one of those BEN AND ME (I hope you remember the children's book, a tale told by a mouse who knew Benjamin Franklin) historical fiction books that focuses on a minor character caught up in the lives of major historical figures. Seriously, it's a dramatic tale that includes imaginative characterizations of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Leon Trotsky.
Reply Adam Hunt
07:20 PM on July 25, 2010 
I'm finishing up Stephen King's "On Writing", and I'm re-reading "Freakonomics" for the second time to do some marginalia.
Reply Paul
02:34 PM on July 24, 2010 
Just added A Gate At The Stairs by Lorrie Moore. Have always enjoyed her short fiction, but this is the first novel by her that I've read (am reading).
Reply Marie Manilla
01:17 PM on July 24, 2010 
Just added Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout to the word cloud. On deck is Tinkers by Paul Harding.
Reply Christina
12:40 PM on July 24, 2010 
Hi Jennifer,
Yout titles and author choices sound like my cup of tea.
Reply laura7
12:10 PM on July 24, 2010 
Please type one of your book titles into the Answer Garden link http://answergarden.ch/view/1040 to help fatten our "word cloud."
Reply Adam Hunt
11:59 AM on July 24, 2010 
Just finishing Stephen King's "On Writing" and getting into a 2nd, critical read-through of "Freaknomics" with marginalia.
Reply Jennifer
11:28 AM on July 24, 2010 
I just finished reading The Whales by Cynthia Rylant and Maya Angelou's Letter to My Daughter. Next is Alison Arngrim's Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated. I can't wait to get started!
Reply Danielle Stobie
11:20 AM on July 24, 2010 
The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford (it's a re-read)
The Death and Life of the American School System by Diane Ravitch
To the Arctic: the Story of Northern Exploration from the Earliest Times by Jeannette Mirsky
Reply marcharshman@hotmail.com
11:12 AM on July 24, 2010 
THE AGE OF WONDER: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science -- Richard Holmes -- Pantheon, NY, 2008
Reply Eliot
11:03 AM on July 24, 2010 
I am reading "Bad Things Happen" by Harry Dolan.
Reply Christina
10:46 AM on July 24, 2010 
Books! I got a Kindle and I love its ease in downloading--more tempting even then Amazon.com books to whom I am in constant debt.
I am reading A Dream of Drowned Hollow, by Lee Barwood
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Tuscan Holiday, Holly Chamberlin
God Makes the Rivers to Flow, Eknath Easwaran

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