What are you reading?

There's a film for The Amazing Mr Blunden, too - I think Diana Dors was in it as an evil housekeeper.

I've just finished Miss Garnet's Angel, by Salley Vickers, and I'm now looking for anything else she ever wrote!
It's a delightful story, weaving together a retired school teacher's visit to Venice with the Biblical story of Tobias and the Angel.

I haven't been able to get to the book store for weeks, so back to the shelves: Just finished Life on the Mississippi and Huck Finn, now on Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America.

Have You Found Her: A Memoir by Janice Erlbaum

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Native Son by Richard Write
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

Just finished Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. What a weird, wild ride.

Recently finished: Lovely Bones and Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
Reading now: Road to Hell by Jackie Kessler, Strangers in Death by J. R. Robb/Nora Roberts and A Guinea Pig's History of Biology by Jim Endersby

Right now I'm reading Victorian America, Beginnings Middles and Ends, and the 1895 unabridged facsimile edition of the Montgomery Ward & Co. Catalogue... 624 pages of browsing bliss

Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan.

I'm rereading Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins.

Finished the Dark Tower series finally about 2 weeks ago. I was reading Michael Flynn's Firestar but, man, it moves slow. I'm taking a break from it to read Anne Rice's Blood Canticle.

Just finished The Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman, and have started a biography of sorts of Sartre and Beauvoir, Tête-à-tête by Hazel Rowley.

I'm reading Come On People! by Bill Cosby and Dr. Alvin Poussaint because I'm tired of feeling bad about how some Black people act and I enjoy reminding myself that the worst of us don't represent all of us.

Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn
Tithe by Holly Black

I finished Pat Wood's Lottery, John E. Robison's Look Me in the Eye, then I picked up a copy of his brother's book Running With Scissors. Now I'm into an ARC of Therese Fowler's Souvenir and I hope to start Patry Francis's The Liar's Diary very soon.

Boy, and I thought I wasn't reading enough!

I'm going to start Greenspan's Bubbles in a few minutes (and probably finish it today -- short book). Went to B&N to buy that and came home with that and a few other current affairs/economics books. It is dangerous to go into that store, esp. with a discount coupon in hand.

--Ken

P.S. finished it this morning. Excellent book. Highly recommended.

Autodidact said:

I find Jane Austen hilarious. She just cracks me up. It's like Bridget Jones or something. What's Cody McFadyen like?

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Now I'm about 1/3 into Face of Death by Cody McFadyen...it's pretty good. It's a bit more gory than I'd anticipated, but the writing's good, and the style changes throughout the book, which is pretty effective in telling the story. I'm enjoying it a lot!

Chauchat Butterfly said:

Native Son by Richard Write

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We read Native Son in my AP Lit class. I actually really enjoyed it! What do you think of it so far?

Mud Dauber said:

Have You Found Her: A Memoir by Janice Erlbaum

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I read this a couple of weeks ago! I had loved Girlbomb. This, I thought, was even better.

I just picked up Harry Potter for the first time the other day. Enjoying it!

I'm reading Arthur Gelb's City Room. Gelb joined the New York Times in 1944 as a copyboy and retired 45 years later as managing editor. He's an engaging writer and his historical anecdotes are first rate.

Just finished Nathan Miller's New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America. It's nicely written and an excellent--short--history of the Jazz Age.

I just finished Toothpaste's Alex and the Ironic Gentleman. It was terrific - way to go Toothpaste!

Now I have to pick something new from the pile of TBR's. I have James Owen's Search for the Red Dragon, which I've been dying to read since I got it in January. It's the second in the Imaginarium Geographic series. The first was fabulous, so I want to relish the next.

Lane, I love the '20's - that book sounds interesting.

Reading and loving The Other Boleyn Girl.

The Way the Crow Flies

Rereading The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton. She was a great researcher and storyteller.

Stardust by Neil Gaiman