What BOOK are you reading right now?

Just started Chris Tyerman's 'God's War: A New History of the Crusades'

http://www.amazon.com/Gods-War-New-History-Crusades/dp/0674023870

Extremely good so far.

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck.

I've decided to go back and re-read some books I remember enjoying in the past. It's one of the few nice things about getting older, you get to re-experience a good book.

I agree with that...

my parents had a Pearl Buck book that I tossed (ok, put to salvation) decades ago. Wouldn't mind reading it now.

I'm reading Joseph Kanon's Alibi. Absolutely terrific. I've got about 5% of it to go and don't want it to end.

I finished the quilting book last night, so I suppose I will get back to Ulysses now.

I want to finish all the unfinished books I have (about 10), but need to have a new one every now and then!

my own. I'm editing...

picked up a stack of books at the library including a BORAT double(tumble) edition :

"touristic guidings to minor nation of U.S. AND A. "

and

"touristic guidings to glorious nation of KAZAKHSTAN " .

of course it's a bit crude and i lauged my head off - well , almost !
hbg

The Kazakhs hate that man!

Reading The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing since she recently picked up a Nobel prize for literature. Horrible grim 80s realism, communist youth in London - not an uplifting read, but true of a particular time and place.

I just finished A thousand splendid Suns by Kahlid Hosseni.

By god it is a depressing book...

Update on Ulysses:

Chapter two seems to be much better readable than chapter 1

The Tracker - Tom Brown, Jr.

a narrative about living in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey under the tutelage of an Apache elder.

Just finished "Go ask Alice" as my daughter read it for a class project. I had heard of the book but never read it until now.

Quick read and hard to put down.

Due to financial constraints and the inability to get to the library in a timely fashion, I am now in my 37th reading of the Sears Christmas catalogue. The toy section still fascinates me, but everything else is becoming redundant.

What about the ladies underwear section Gus?

Bung the catalog back in the outhouse, and try this light-fare pair by James Hamilton-Paterson.

Cooking with Fernet Branca.

And the sequel:

Amazing Disgrace.

I'd actually like to read those, Debacle, thanks for the clue...
I've read so many of the type that he is sending up.









Fernet Branca, a learned taste. (I learned.)

If not learned, at least acquired, osso.

That said, how's about a little Hanky-Panky?

No, thanks! I'll take mine in a small glass after dinner, sipped, or a tall thin glass with ice cubes, however non italian, also after dinner.

That article compared it to Compari - hah.

I'll admit I like some italian aperitvi mixed as cocktails, but the few times I had such a mix, I didn't know what was in it. For example, at an Inn called Casalta near Siena, the owner brought us a cocktail, on the house, as we sat in the lounge looking at his big book about the Palio and the history of the contrade. I asked him what was in it and he named four or five things, which of course I forgot immediately on the hearing of them.

Sadly, I'm experiencing a serious "reading block" at the moment. Very annoying - I just can't seem to read at all. Perhaps it's the heat? Dunno.)
So instead, I've challenged myself to watch the whole of The West Wing (Really! Quite a challenge!) this summer & I've been listening to a talking book just before going to sleep, after the light is turned off. Something called Just One Look, by someone called Harlan Coben. A bit of a ripper yarn!

Cheesus! Fernet is everywhere!

Seems like it, littlek. Doesn't sound particularly appealing to me, but the books are fun.