What BOOK are you reading right now?

Me too. Where is it now? Under pillow or blanket or on the floor? Get over here, dammit.

I've eyes fixed (well, that's another story that I remember you know about) after cataracts and see New Yorker print best at exactly one foot away (no, not all the art and music stuff in the front, which requires some visualizing obsession), but the rest of the articles. This is sometimes a giant fail that is followed by scrambling and flopping.

All this is better than trying to balance thick hardbacks. No, not guys, books.

You're in a swell mood tonight.
That's-a-nice

Well, the magazine finding is an almost constant reality. On other matters, sometimes I joke.

Put aside my Perdido Street Station audiobook by China Miéville. Started Satoshi Kon's manga, Opus.

Hi Littlek,
Currently I'm not reading any book, but thinking to read some good book so can you suggest me any book in which I can have some thrill or suspensive story.

This thread has gone through 361 pages since littlek started it twelve years ago.

Read the thread! Many people have reported reading and liking thriller or suspense stories written by authors from around the world.

Almost half way through Perdido Street Station by China Miéville. Usually steam punk science fiction isn't my forte but this one is truly riveting.

"I Left My Tent In San Francisco" by Emma Kennedy

It's a library book, on it's third (and last for now) 3-week loan - and I'm only half-way through. It's not too bad.

It's about Emma and her friend who go to America in the 80s, hoping to work their way across the country, but it isn't as easy to get work as they thought. I'm just upto the part where they buy the tent of the title.

Anything about lovely SanFran gets my attention as I spent 11 wonderful weeks there in '85/'86 and didn't want to come back! Never felt so "at home" since I left England for Australia in 1964, aged 14.

Just finished the latest whodonit by Fred Vargas, Temps glaciaires (Ice Age). This gall never fails to deliver serious entertaining.

What a lovely review Shekeda.

The book I'm reading now explains a lot about the struggle of Australians to wean themselves from mother England and become their own entity.
It also describes the catastrophe that was Gallipoli first hand.

The Straits Impregnable by Sydney Loch was banned for many years;.
now it's out with the title To Hell And Back(not to be confused with Audie Murphy's autobiography)

My grandfather was there with the ANZACS and I deeply regret not speaking to him about his experiences before he passed away.

Oh, I am sorry....just saw this now: no, no, they talk about the parallel universe early on in the book.

I am reading right now "Fall of Giants" by Ken Follett.
Historical trilogy - I advanced to 1917 already, another year of WWI.

Primo Levi. The Reawakening

Meantime, people are telling me to look into a lot of satiric spoofs.

Please, read him first.
It's not that I took him as satiric. Just that his life was descriptive.

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
~ Randall Munroe

This is the guy who does those stick figure comics beloved by geeks and
nerds everywhere. I read this in bits and pieces as I wait for my gym
partner to finish up in the locker room.

Read it also.
He was a great man and an epic writer.
It's hard for me to fathom why he would survive Auschwitz and then commit suicide.

That book was absolutely brilliant! Gobbled it up rather quickly.

Dancing Bear James Crumley

I'm back to reading Rome by Robert Hughes. Still excellent.

It sounds good Osso, but...http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/decline-and-fall-of-a-book-on-rome-riddled-with-errors-6272078.html

I wouldn't be surprised. He was older, not a historian as such, far as I know, spent a lot of years writing the thing, sort of a compilation. It fits with me, though. I'm not a historian either, am old and crabby, have read scads of Italy history, much of it probably off base, at the time or later.

Back when I was piazza crazed and very intent, I could follow who referenced whom, when, how views happened, somewhat.. Now I don't care, I like the stories.

But yeah, I'll read that article and enjoy. Thanks for the link.