What are you reading?

I believe my last contribution to this thread was SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE.

I followed it up by reading TIMEQUAKE.

And then I read A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY.

Kurt Vonnegut. Ya gotta love him.

Last night I finished Anita Shreve's Body Surfing.

I love her books. Never fails, by the end I'm both inspired and humbled -- she can write about the most wrenching things in such an understated way; she breaks my heart every time.

Just finished The Chronicles of Narnia, and just started Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things. What a shift ... like going from James Taylor to Pink Floyd.

Book called 'Movieola' that's a lot better than I expected. Nearly finished it and have no idea what to read next. Boo.

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Perks said:

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

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I just read that.

I'm now finishing up The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander and getting ready to starts Ann Patchett's Run.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

I am re-reading THE HOODS by Harry Grey for the first time since the 1950s. It was the basis for the film, ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA.

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I just finished The Kite Runner and I can't stop thinking about it. I cried, twice. I'm almost afraid to see the movie because I don't want it to ruin the book for me.

I read Hello Kitty

OctoberRain said:

I just finished The Kite Runner and I can't stop thinking about it. I cried, twice.

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This is exactly why I haven't read it yet, even though it's been lying in my bookshelf for ages. Really don't want to be depressed for a week.

Tragically, I thought I'd get a few laughs out of Marian Keyes's latest work. She's so funny, but this time she decided to tackle death and how people deal with it. *sigh*

Great book, but I need to laugh. Suggestions?

I'm reading The Artist's Way right now though. I'm using it more than I'm actually reading it. Exercises and stuff.

Currently reading: Phillipa Gregory's The Virgin's Lover, and a Donald E. Westlake Dortmunder novel. I can't for the life of me remember the title right now.

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer.

I've enjoyed much by Christopher Moore, in particular LAMB. I worship Terry Pratchett (he's a small god who doesn't answer my email). I read King's ON WRITING about ten times -- a personal record -- before selling it. For the memoirs more than the writing advice, all of which I've written (badly) myself. Oh, and Steven King subscribes to my newsletter, so hahahahahahahaha.

Right now I'm reading A CHAMELEON'S TALE by Mo Tejani. An Indian Shia Muslim who got kicked out of Uganda (his homeland) during the Idi Amin days. The dude can write, and think, and I'm enjoying it immensely. I would've never bought it if I hadn't met the author -- presentations and speeches work if you've got the talent. I've read one travel book too many, or many ten or twenty too many, but I love this one. Even though it doesn't have any pix of Hello Kitty...

Devil Ledbetter said:

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer.

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Love that book. I hear it's going to be a movie.

I have started reading a book called Clearing in the Wild by Jane Kirkpatrick.
I'm only about 11 pages in, but I'm really enjoying it so far.

"Heirs of Ravenscar" by Barbara Taylor Bradford. Jesus H, it's bad. She's my 'makes me feel better about my own writing' author.

I'm reading Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. I have to see what all the hype is about. I'm also reading The Sublime by Hannah Moskowitz (aka Shady Lane). Then, I'll finish reading Holes.

I am reading Traitors Hand by Sandy Mitchell, it is book 3 of 5 detailing the life of Commissar Ciaphas Cain, a front line defender of the Imperium, a rogue,an opportunist and a fraud. It is set in the closing days of the 41st millennium, set in the Warhammer 40 000 world.

Throne of Jade (Naomi Novik)

juan valera

i am reading pepita jimenez by juan valera. love the novel but it is slow going. i am reading the new old house by martha stewart (she looks like a teen in the pictures. guess jail does age one.) and another on decorating with books. i am moving into my dad's 100 + year old house this spring and i need some house sense before i start tearing into things.
i am trying to read the thirteenth tale but not getting anywhere. it started out with a bang but now is in the whimper stage. i am tempted to give up on it. tales of men and ghosts by wharton is faster going. storm warning bynancy mathis is my halloween read. this is a hair raiser! it is about tornadoes in the panhandle. i don't have television so i read a lot. --s6

Harvesting the Heart.- Jodi Picoult's second novel about the result of having an absent mother on a woman's life.

Just finished "The Pact" by Jodi Picoult. Haven't decided what to read next.

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Not yet convinced that I like it. It might have won a Pulitzer, but I continue to wait for the story to start and I'm almost a quarter of the way through.