What are you reading?

Hortensia

It's rather quiet on the JWD forum tonight - probably you are all out partying, eh? I'm wondering what's in the pile of books by your chair or bed? I have a couple of mysteries, Robert Barnard's newest one and a really old Arthur Upfield. I have Who Wrote the Bible by Friedman, another mystery - a cliff Janeway Bookman novel, a novel called The Egyptologist which was on the 75% off counter at Borders, a true story called Sword and Blossom, and Rumpole and the Reign of Terror, which was also on the 75% off table at Borders. I also have a four-volume set recommended by a friend, but I can't quite get into it. Sort of an adult Harry Potter series.

quietlyleaving

I'm reading The Blind Man of Seville - murder mystery - by Robert Wilson

brinjen

Crisis of Conscience by Ramond Franz. When I get the time, between my job and the online course I'm studying I've managed about a quarter so far.

monophonic

"Divisadero" by Michael Ondaatje.

it's the first book i've read of his and i've never seen 'the english patient'. i didn't expect much, but Ondaatje is blowing me away...great read.

my "On The Road: The Original Scroll" came in the mail and i'm very excited to read that soon.

i have about 50 books in my TO-READ pile in my office....along with keeping up with the new yorker and trade magazines and the 5-10 books i receive in the mail from publishers every week, i'll catch up when i'm dead.

anyway, "Divisadero", highly recommended.

thepackage

I'm reading "I hope they serve beer in hell" by Tucker Max

BizzyBee

The Barbara Anderson CD
Mad River, by Joy Fielding
The Good Guy, by Dean Koontz
Periodicals: USA Today, The Atlantic, New Yorker Magazine, WSJ

LtCmd.Lore

Job: A Comedy of Justice

By Robert A. Heinlein.

I recommend it.

Lore

Hortensia

I looked up Divisadero on amazon to see what it's about - I always like to read the amazon reviews on books before I buy them. I can tell from amazon that you read literature, Monophonic. I gave up on literature years ago, now I just read for entertainment of the lazier trashier sort. When it comes to fiction, I mostly like mysteries, or any fiction written before the 20th century - maybe into the 1920s or 30s, but not much after that. Otherwise, I mostly like non-fiction. Stuff like The Road to Ubar or The Mummies of Urumchi.

reneeisorym

I'm a non fiction reader.

1. How Baking Works: Exploring the Fundamentals of Baking Science

2. E-Myth Revisited

3. Start Your Own Business

4. The freeminds journal

Hortensia

LtCmd.Lore - I thought I had read all of Heinlein, but I looked Job up on amazon just now and found out I missed this one somehow. Thanks - I ordered it. That one-click ordering on amazon is just plain dangerous. Too easy to order. My favorite Heinlein is The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

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