What are you Reading?

Filmmakers and financing.
Best American Short Stories: 2003 and 2004.
Werewolves in their youth. (chabon short stories)

'Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey' and 'A Pioneer Woman's Memoir'... research, y'know. For fun, 'Who Needs a Hero', by our own astonwest.

Cold Mountain.
I'm enjoying it very much. Bummed cuz it's almost done.

The last two books I read were Feast for Crows and Wasteland. Currently, I'm reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Because I'm poor . . . and I'd like to be rich.

Shelby Foote's billion-page Civil War history. I'm about 100 pages in on volume 2.

Word of the Day toilet tissue.

Oh, and a well worn copy of The Long, Dark Teatime of the Soul. I keep it in the bathroom.

How is NFG doing? I haven't checked them out in a while. It's good to know they haven't gone out of business, like most magazines. I guess I should get a copy of the newest one.

an anthology called 'first fiction', which contains the first published short stories of about 3 dozen famous writers.

it's interesting and quite humbling.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316492035/?tag=absolutewritedm-20

Just started Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen.

dclary said:

Shelby Foote's billion-page Civil War history. I'm about 100 pages in on volume 2.

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A great light went out in the universe when Mr. Foote died. What little I have read of his histories, I could hear his voice clearly in my mind. What a sweet gentle man and what a story teller!

Staying Dead, by Laura Anne Gilman
Maximum Ride, by James Patterson (although God knows when I'll pick that up again)
Three weeks of accumulated Entertainment Weekly's.
AW threads.

The Da Vinci Code

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (not liking it quite as much as I hoped I would) and the current issue of People magazine

"The Return" by Bentley Little
"The Drowning People" by Richard Mason
"Ashes to Ashes" by Tami Hoag
"Practical Problem Solver: Substitutes, Shortcuts, and Ingenious Solutions for Making Life Easier" Edited by Lee Fowler and Mary Lyn Maiscott (Reader's Digest)

I'm reading a book called 'Girlbomb', its about the authors teenage years and how she ran away from home because of a crazy stepdad and a weak mom...

and I'm reading Rebecca for school because we have to read two books off our summer reading list, I don't know what the second will be yet though

and I'm in the middle of about three really good stories at fictionpres.com

"Warriors of Medieval Japan" by Stephen Turnbull
"Classical Weaponry of Japan" by Serge Mol
"Weaponry: An Illustrated History", by Chuck Wills
"Soldiers & Ghosts" by J. E. Lendon

...for a bit of research.

"Have Space Suite--Will Travel" by Robert Heinlein... for fun

I am reading...

Declare - Powers
The Confessor - Silva
The Thin Man - Hammett

Do you guys really read multiple books at once?

It's something I always had to do for school, but I can't imagine doing that now.

I'm reading:
A Moveable Feast (I'm like KTC in that it is a favorite of mine that I like to go back to time and again)
Phoenix (by our own wonderful NeuroFizz) - and it's really good too, NF! I'm enjoying it!

I"m really interested in the book William is reading now "First Fiction" - that sounds fascinating and wonderful. I'll have to look for it in the library!

and today I'm going to follow the links to The Deepening so I can see Perks' and Three Seven's short stories published there! Can't wait to read them!

A neighbour friend just gave me "The Complete Works of Saki" which is mildly entertaining if a little laborious. I like old books but this thing is like the Manhattan Yellow Pages.

Do you guys really read multiple books at once?

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Yes. Location-based.

My Shelby Foote Civil War tome is at the tub, so it gets read for about 20-25 minutes each nigth before bed. There's a book on SQL Server 2K XML I read in the bathroom at work for 5-10 minutes at a time. I have another novel "Map of Bones" in the downstairs bathroom at home.