What BOOK are you reading right now?

I'm still reading DH Lawrence in Italy. Presently we're shopping in Sardinia - Cagliari's food markets in 1921.. marvelous vegetable descriptions. Lawrence's strange rants have gotten fewer as the book has progressed.

my thoughts exactly, don't provoke the bunny

Still reading Pat Barker's Life Class. Slow going because work has taken over my life for a bit. But it gets better & better the more I read!
And, last thing at night as I drift off to sleep, I'm listening (for the 2nd time) to an audio transcript of Tim Winton's Cloud Street. Enjoying it immemsely the 2nd time around, taking more time with it this time. (You'd have to be Australian to know about this one, I suspect.)

Im listening to the audiobook of Pillars of the Earth. It was re recorded in 2008 with a good reader whos able to take on the characters quite well.
Its 35 CDs long. (In mp3 its only 2 cassettes)

At present, I am reading two books simultaneously, short ones, both of which I've read before. One is Chopin's Move by Jean Echenoz, which I've read three times, and the other is Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker, which I've read four-and-a-quarter times.

I decided this time to sort of blend the two books together, reading a paragraph from one followed by a paragraph from the other. I thought to facilitate this by shuffling the pages together, like a card shark does a deck; three fingers curled around each book's spine, an index finger serving as fulcrum to lever each book upwards in the middle and a thumb fanning the pages so that they interlaced one-on-one. But I scrapped the idea when, after spending quite a lot of minutes on it, I found that, regardless of whichever way I held them, one book or the other was upside down. So I decided just to hold a book in each hand and that works okay except for eating popcorn while I read.

Anyway, they're good ones. If interested, check 'em out, here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0679725768/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link

and here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1564783340/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link

I am reading a bunch together, too.

1. Irwin Yalom's "Staring at the Sun", which is about dealing with mortality.

2. Re-reading Madame Bovary.

3. Re-reading "Bleak House".

4. Reading "The Moment I First Believed" by Wally Lamb.

Hey Osso, have you been to that bar at the top of the castle? I loved Cagliari, but we were only there for about 6 hours. Spent ages with the cookie ladies in an alley - they export to Harrods. Don't get the **** boat to Sicily! (a hinge family in joke)

Wow, farmer. That sounds like the audio book to end all audio books!
I love listening to a good book, read well!
Enjoy.

Hinge -
Oh, that's half the fun of the Lawrence book, his descriptions of rooms he stayed in, and bad meals, and varied boat rides. Some descriptions are quite positive, those mostly about different people and the land.

Haven't been to Sardinia or Sicily (waaaah!) Had a passing thought of moving to Old Siracusa (a friend was all gaga about Ortigia) when I was thinking of relocating, but figured I'd be trapped, money wise, re flying back and forth to the US, and that few would visit me, since it ain't so easy to get there from here. Not to mention that my italian is poor enough and my knowledge of sicilian dialect is zilch.



This morning, Lawrence is a couple of years short of dying of malaria and tb, and is visiting etruscan places with a friend. We're in Caere.

It's not the "moment" you first believed, but the "hour" you first believed. Or the hour somebody did. Just goes to show, it takes but a moment to get things wrong.

Anyway, you're re-reading the best novels by Dickens and Flaubert, according to a majority of critics; and probably some others that would agree, too, if they only knew you were reading them.

I haven't read Hardy's "The Woodlanders" since Form 6, and didn't like it then.

It fell out of the bookshelf last week and I decided to give it another go.

At 16, I obviously didn't have the depth or maturity to appreciate the tiny details, but I'm just loving it now. Plus it brings back echoes of a much loved Lit. teacher.

Woe is me, I thought I'd memo'd the passages I might want to quote from Lawrence.. No, where is the hare quote? We'll see, with any luck a new sig line.
On Lawrence, he was who he was.

I've stopped dumping on him from a movie.

I get his writing, much as I think he's a ranto-holic.
On the other hand, I've now only read his travel clump.

Wish I didn't refuse to corner pages.

reading "Made in Japan "- by Akio Morito

So, verbi, welcome to a2k, and tell us about that.

(This gives me - in the meantime - an excuse to look for my quote from the DH Lawrence book.)

Dracula is my current "boot-up book".
That's the book I keep by my PC from which to read
a page or two while the OS gets its act together.

the narrator does make all the difference, the harry potter series was read by two different people, stephen fry read the british editions and jim dale read the american editions, jim dale is a very accomplished narrator, but fry adds the right ambience to the readings, given the subject matter is british in origin

ossoboco - Made in Japan is a story by Akio Morita - the founder of the Sony company. It is a great book for those in management field i guess, coz it has very simply laid a few managing techniques i believe. But nyways just started the book lets c..
and thnx for th welcome..have been here for more than 1 yr now..jst that i havent visited ths thread

found it at a used bookstore for $1

best $1 I've spent in a long time

just finishing re-listening to stephen fry read "harry potter and the philosophers stone", going to start the chamber of secrets next

re-reading coraline and mirromask

reading heroes by bruce meyer