What BOOK are you reading right now?

Just received the following email from a writer-friend who lives in Georgia.

http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/kensington/catalog.cfm?dest=itempg&itemid=8605&secid=86&linkon=section&linkid=86
My good friend Bob Smith has just had his latest book released by Kensington. Entitled No Soul Left Behind: The Words and Wisdom of Edgar Cayce (A. Robert Smith) the information is a good antidote to all those fear-mongering "left behind" potboilers of recent years. This book is worth your attention.

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Am reading "Reading Lolita in Tehran" by Azar Nafisi.
Veryyyyy interesting. Along with my having just read Moghul Buffet, this makes a one-two punch to ratchet up my attention to concerns of women in areas with muslim fundamentalism.

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Muslim fundamentalism concerns are important, but I see christian fundamentalism in America more significant.

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I'm not a fan of fundamentalism in general, CI. However, I'm learning a lot about places not near me from these two books, and that is part of why I read. I chose mysteries and police procedurals - my recreational reading - in large part for the settings, and possibly the subject matter. Thus I've accumulated dozens of art theft mysteries set in Italy....

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Definitely reading "Profitable Growth is everyone's business" by Ram Charam.

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About 10 pages into Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. I've struggled to get this far. Not sure I'll be able to get any further. I am NOT getting why he seems to be so loved.

Of course, 10 pages in is only page 2 of the actual book. Before that were the acknowledgements and introduction.

I'll try.

But I'm feeling like this could be a slog.

<why did I give it to hamburger for Christmas?>

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Funny, I, who saves most of my travel writing books, just dumped that one.

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I read "Lost Continent," and he's funny and good at what he does.

But it doesn't stand up for the duration of a novel. He should just write collected essays.

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I am thinking about reading Bridges Over Madison County

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ehBeth - I am still only about half-way through "A Short History..." I haven't picked it up in at least a year. I love his other stuff, but this is almost a little too comprehensive.

I'm reading a "Fallen Man" by Hillerman.

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Too comprehensive.
That sounds about right.
I have slogged a bit further, but am having a lot more fun reading the current issue of Vanity Fair. Embarrassed

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Still reading "Reading Lolita in Tehran". Still involved in it..

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Done with Hillerman. Sigh. Now what?

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Reading "The World is Flat".

Audiobooked Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. Amusing and harmless.

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"Stop Aging Now" and "Four Season Harvest"

I usually read several books at a time.

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Joe - great book. I bet it's good on cd.

HickoryStick - welcome to a2k and the book thread. I think many of us read several books at a time. I sometimes read 2 or 3 actively and many more passively. By 'passively' I refer to a book I have started and put down for more than a month or two.

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Thanks, littlek! I wouldn't feel myself if I didn't have a book going, lol. I'm also writing one, ha!

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Oho! Not many of us are writing our own. What's your book about?

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I have some terrific nightmares, and I'm cramming them into a really neat story. I used to meditate a lot, and all that really came out of that was that I remember all of my dreams. Several a night, in fact... and NO I don't take opiates, lol. I know Poe wrote that way, and he was on opium... I'm not, though, I promise Smile

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I believe ya! Maybe you could share a typical nightmare? I know it's a diversion, but it's my thread, dammit. If you won't, no problem. I'll catch you all later.... off to eat, drink and be merry.

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