What BOOK are you reading right now?

Hi roger!

Just been busy busy busy is all (caught an unfortunate "t" in one of those "busy"s -- whew ). Had some visitors descend for the holidays and been doing this and that. Probably won't have much time for a few days yet.

Thanks for asking!

sozobe.....missed ya girl....big fat happy new year to you.

Peace on Earth and Goodwill Toward All Mankind!

Happy New Year All!

Happy new year back!

Missed ya too, blatham dearie!

Ambrose
B:
While you're reading "Nothing like it in the world" see if I'm crazy. It may have been that I was reading the same parts over and over, but I swear there are several sections, especially one regarding a gang of men in a race, that are repeated more than once. There's a description of how track is laid that I believe is in the book in three different chapters. No plagarism here just bad editing, anyhow I lent my copy to someone and now I can't check out my own nuttyness.

Joe

I saw the previews for Nickleby and remember it being one I had not read myself yet and that I should pick it up and read it myself.
Almost done with Dark Horse so, my trip to Borders this eve should bring back something interesting.
I also have been looking for bookshelves...I wonder If Ill ever have enough.

Just finished "Empire Falls" by Richard Russo

Just starting "Framley Parsonage" by Anthony Trollope

Also in a discussion group that does 2 stories a week from "Best Short Stories of the Century" edited by John Updike. I guess there are about 60 stories in that book.

Also almost finished reading "The Dubliners" by James Joyce.

When I finish "The Doubliners," I will go back and finish D.H. Lawrence "Selected Short Stories."

Following that I'll read collections by Checkhov and Faulkner. The reason for the Joyce, Lawrence, Checkov, and Faulkner books is that after our discussion group finishes the Updike book, I think we will start a new series of discussions called "Four Masters of the Short Story," which will run 30 weeks. We'll do one or two stories a week depending on length.

LOTR Book III - "The Return of the King"

I have been not reading still. Some mags, yes, but still dawdling through 9 tomorrows by Issac Asimov. Turns out I HAD read A Mote In God's Eye before.

I Thought My Father Was God
and other true tales from NPR's National Story Project
edited by Paul Auster

Haz: your group might want to look at these. Some are very short, less than a page, most are just snapshots, some will make you drop the book and gape out at the sea and wonder as to how some people get through the times of their lives.

I'm also reading Strip Tease by Carl Hiaasen. So funny and so Florida.

Vittotio, the Vampire by Anne Rice.

Some interesting writing about Renaissance Florence at the time of the deMedici. But for a writer as good as Anne Rice usually is, this is a sloppy work. It's like she didn't want to bother doing a careful editing job and eliminate non-sequiturs and sentence fragments that make you stop and say 'huh?' The story's good, the writing could stand a tuneup.

MA - is that a new book?

Nah, littlek. © 1999. It's part of Rice's continuing series on vampires (along with Interview With the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat. But this one's not set in New Orleans but, rather, Renaissance Italy.

I listen to audio books on CD's, while driving back and forth to the office.

I listened to "The Fourth Hand" by John Irving. Loved It! I love his style of writing.

I listened to "Welcome To The World, Baby Girl" by Fannie Flagg. It was easy to listen to in traffic. She creates believable characters.

Now, I'm listening to "Falling Angels" by Tracy Chevalier (she wrote Girl With A Pearl Earring). This book is kinda jerky. It jumps from person to person, with each section being written in the 'first-person' style, but from different people. I'm not sure I'm going to finish this book, but it beats listening to the morning DJ's and radio commercials.

Other than audio books..... 'The Two Towers' and 'Fury'.

MA - I'm familiar with her books. I read a book about vampires in old italy - lots of opera - that the same book?

PaL - I really should read/reread the JRR Tolien series.

No, there's no opera in this one, li'l k. Lots of famopus artists, though -- Fra Fillipo Lippi and Fra Angelico make appearances.

hi little k -- Tolkien was a master storyteller. I love all the magic and fantasy and walking trees.

I think I missed that one, MA.

PaL, I agree. I have read some and not others of his series. It was so long ago, that I can't remember what I have and have not read.

Hi all, read all the replies here. I would hate to see anyone separate from their book collection. I sold hundreds of paperbacks for 25c each years ago. Lost my 30 year Book of the month collection in a fire, plus dozens of others. Wish I had them all back, especially the small inspirational ones.

Now, I'm reading a two-volume set, The Remnant and Sons of Darkness Sons of Light by Mary Lacroix (2nd time). Trying to read a Lord of the Rings Book but can't seem to get into it.
Tex-Star

This may shock a few of you, but I no longer read fiction. Even my mother thinks that it's a bit 'snobbish' (I suspect that she really covets my cast-offs).

In 2001 I realised that I had not read a fiction work for a year or so, and I wondered how far I could take it - years apparently, I have not missed the whole lot at all. I will qualify this with one exception, I still DO read to my daughters - however, if 'Hop on Pop' is good enough for the President of the United States, it's good enough for me. I won't consider a work such as 'Revolting Rhymes' or the condensed story of 'Lilo & Stitch' on par with 'Lord of the Rings' or anything by Tom Robbins.

For the record - I have just finished "The Third Champanzee" and started "An Unquiet Mind" - both of these are great reading.