What BOOK are you reading right now?

Haven't read it for too long.....


It seemed very exciting at the time...

stephen j hawking-The Universe In A Nutshell

...fascinating, concise explanation of physics and the universe...

warning:don't operate heavy machinery while listening to the audio book!

panzade, the audio book thing happened to me, too. It is an 8-hr drive to our condo in Florida, a mind-bendingly-boring drive on interstates until I began downloading books from iTunes or getting them from my two local libraries. I recently listened to Cry, The Beloved Country that I first read maybe 40 years ago. Had to sit in the driveway and listen to the last part. I've listened to dozens of books in time/space unsuitable for holding a book...working out on the treadmill, taking a five-mile walk.

I tried re-reading On The Road last year...couldn't finish it....I've changed or the world has.

yeah...I felt the same

On to the Two Towers! (Tolkien)

I'm reading selected topics in The Writer's Handbook 2009. Every year I purchase a copy, but only read the portions that are of interest.

sounds like me and my just-arrived issue of Playboy...

JAy Winicks -"The Great Upheaval" -America and the Development of the Modern World 1788-1800
Winick is a historian at U of Maryland and is author of April 1865. (A book that delves into the slow and regional cessation of the US Civil War)

I'm on it FM

still reading stephen hunt's "the court of the air", but also listening to brad meltzer's "the book of fate"



"Six minutes from now, one of us would be dead. None of us knew it was coming. So says Wes Holloway, a once-cocky and ambitious presidential aide, about the day that changed his life forever. On that day, Wes put the president's oldest friend, Ron Boyle, into the presidential limousine. By the time the trip came to an end, Wes was permanently disfigured, and Boyle was dead, the victim of a crazed assassin. Eight years later, Boyle is spotted, alive and well, in Asia. In that moment, Wes has the chance to undo the worst day of his life. Trying to figure out what really happened takes Wes back to a decade-old presidential crossword puzzle, disturbing secrets buried in Masonic history, and a 200-year-old secret code invented by Thomas Jefferson. But what Wes doesn't realize is that the Book of Fate holds everyone's secrets. Especially the ones worth dying for. The Book of Fate. What does it say about you?"

it's a pleasant little diversion

Still reading Outline of History, volume I. It'll be a while.

Damn, I need some good police procedurals as a pacer.

almost finished "Court Of The Air", gonna start the next book in the series "The Kingdom Beyond The Waves"



also started listening to

finished listening to Oryx and Crake



very disturbing...any comments?

Is it futuristic or science fiction? I like Margaret Atwood as a writer, but I just can't read anything with a science fiction or fantasy bent at this point.
I am a fan of her earlier novels, but pretty much everything since the Handmaid's Tale has left me cold.

I have that "problem" too, Aidan, though I haven't read any Atwood.

from wiki

Oryx and Crake is a novel with dystopian elements by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Like The Handmaid's Tale, the book is often categorized as science fiction novel, but Atwood herself prefers to label it speculative fiction and "adventure romance" because it does not deal with 'things that have not been invented yet' and goes beyond the realism she associates with the novel form

Watchmen the graphic novel. Couple of chapters in so far, really enjoying it. Interesting coming to it after seeing the film though. I also have 'The Death of Superman' & 'The Dark Knight Returns' as well as a series called, 'Promethea'. All of which I'm yet to delve into. If anyone has any recommendations for must reads in this area, I'll note them down.

In graphic novels a must read is 'Kingdom Come' by Mark Waid and illustrated Alex Ross

Right now I am a third of the way through 'Return of the King' (Tolkien). Not sure what to pick up next.

Kingdom Come is very good

some of my faves
V for Vendetta
Neil Gaiman's Sandman (10 TPB's containing the entire 75 issue run, a must for comics fans)
Allan Moore's Top 10 Book 1 & 2
Jeff Smith's Bone
Fables (an excellent comic series, it's up to about 11 TPB's)

As I recall, I quite liked this book. It was a quick read. It’s not fresh in my mind at all, though I’ve still got snippets. I think I remember laughing, or being surprised (geeze, not sure anymore) at the *marking* with urine. I think, too, that I was interested in the way that Atwood introduced religion.