What BOOK are you reading right now?

Improper Strangers, by Stuart Woods.

Excellent suspense story!

The Correction by Franzen.

I am reading Michael Connelly's "Chasing the Dime" - (I have a bit of a Michael Connelly "thing" going at present) - Dennis Bock's "The Ash Garden" - (wonderful) - and Martin Cruz Smith's "Tokyo Station".

Alice Munro's Lives of Girls & Women.
Beautifully written, but is giving me a rather wistful feeling.

I'm also making the effort to read all the unread books I've collected , rather than buying more (!)... And re-reading oldies- Has anyone read any of Jennifer Johnston's Irish novels? Wonderful insights as to how "the troubles" influenced ordinary people's lives. Terrific, economical writing, but leaves one feeling sadder, but wiser.

Perhaps I should contemplate some more cheerful reading matter?

The Ash Garden would help - 'tis about Hiroshima......

dlowan

Cheerful?

...irony, Olga, irony....

I'm tired, dlowan, I'm tired!

Awwwwwww, poor little one - cold better?

Hey - I got a million unread books! What IS it with the seductiveness of the unbought ones on the bookshop shelves?

Nope, not really ... & have been running around today like a crazy person .. Too many people to catch up one.
Do you think another glass of wine might improve matters?

The desire to read EVERYTHING ever written!
I have so many unread books (& such a tiny little new house) that I MUST NOT ACCUMULATE MORE!

Hmmmmm - is there a Bookbuyers' Anonymous?

Care to set up a chapter?


(HHHEEEEEEEEEEHHHAAAAAAAWWWW!)

.......oh god I am such an ass...........

You funny person, dlowan!

Aw, gee.....shucks.....

One can NEVER have too many books! I have at least 5 or 6 going at one time. Right now I am reading "Secrets" by Daniel Ellsburg, "War is A Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges, "Boiling Point" by Kevin Phillips(author of "Wealth and Democracy"), "Master and Commander" by Patrick O'Brien, and last: "Kindred Spirits" by Allen M. Schoen...a book about how the bond between humans and animals affects the way we live.

Ok, I am a bookoholic! I can't resist bookstores...especially old or specialty bookstores...like the ones before Borders and Barnes and Noble.

Every Christmas or birthday I get books...we have to build more bookshelves!

Vietnamnurse

Welcome to A2K! So nice to see you here!

But I must disagree with you: One CAN have too many books! Since recently moving to to this tiny, Victorian doll's house I simply do not have the space for my zillions of accumulated books! Once I got used to the idea of off-loading all the ones I wasn't permanently attached to, it was easy ... AND liberating! There were so many that I definitely wouldn't read again. So many that I'd forgotten I even had! I came to the conclusion that I have a book hoarding addiction. Maybe I should take dlowan's suggestion seriously & create a "chapter" for folks with the same affliction? ... The problem though: how to avert my eyes & walk on when passing a favourite bookshop & not go in? It's not easy, but I'm taking it one day at a time & trying to be strong!

Hi msolga! Thanks for the welcome! How is your cat or cats? Should we start another cat thread?

My (3) cats are good, Vietnamnurse .... But maybe you're right - perhaps this thread is not the best place to discuss them? So why not intiate a new (your first here?) cat thread? I'll most definitely be there!

How Buildings Learn by Steven Brand and a couple of guidebooks to Hungary that I got for Christmas.