What BOOK are you reading right now?

john mortimer :
rumpole and the penge bungalow murders .

in many of his other books he refers to the "penge bungalow murders " - rumpole's first murder trial as a young barrister - found it at the library yesterday .
find mortimer always provides an easy read at bedtime .
hbg

I love Groucho Marx and his humorous quotes.

Right now I am reading a funny German book "Mieses Karma" that translates
into "Bad Karma" where a high powered News Anchorwoman who neglects her
private life to further her career, suddenly dies and comes back as an ant (Karma).

I'm generally (somewhat aimlessly filling in bits of time between events & other activities) reading two or three books at the same time. Currently an interesting biography of the musician & composer Victor Herbert by Neil Gould; the second "Proust and the Squid", a study of the historical development of writen language and of the associated development of reading skills, from the perspectives of both brain development and teaching children, by Maryanne Wolf; finally an historical work, "The Ghost of Freedom", a history of the Caucasus, by Charles King. All very interesting.

What I'm worried about Cal is ants suddenly dying and coming back as News Anchorwomen.

The autobiography of Kilgore Trout.

There's a Kilgore autobiography? I didn't know that.
A good read, dys? Anything like any of Kurt's other books?

Finish reading Hillary couple of nites ago; he's still active in Tibet and the South Pole, and he married his second wife who has been very supportive of his lifestyle of travel and directing building projects in Tibet. He says, he's very satisfied with his accomplishments; first to climb Everest, and first to tractor into the South Pole from being a bee-keeper from New Zealand. Amazing autobiography for those of you who love adventure.

Oh you mean a Kurt Vonnegut autobiography, then?
(Though I think a Kilgore autobiography might be far more interesting!)

Finally finished Life Class. A terrific read. Highly recommended.

Is Dys not telling us he's reading Breakfast of Champions?

So he's a Vonnegut fan. And to think I never liked Dys.

Garg, I suspect dys read Breakfast of Champions a long, long time ago!

But I could be wrong on this. (And so it goes .... )

Night by Wiesel
Devil's Arithmatic by Yolen
Shakespeare by Bryson
Nature's Ways by Binney

The first two are holocaust books for 8th grade reading enjoyment! They're watching Life is Beautiful in school tomorrow.

Reading a biography of Mark Twain. Gotta love that guy.

Bathy
Dianne

Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks.

This is a fascinating collection of stories about how people react to music, and how music can reach minds even if nothing else reaches them anymore -- because they are harmed by the most severe forms of brain damage.

The ethics of what we eat by Peter Singer and Oliver Mason

Examines the food choices of three prototypical American families -- one living on the average American diet, one who eating mostly organic, one family of vegans. The book describes the diets, and what consequences they have -- for the people themselves, for the animals involved, for the environment, and for other people. I hadn't thought about these issues much before, and must admit that Singer's case for veganism is much more powerful than I would have expected it to be.

Well, I always say....never eat anything that has a face
Bathy
Dianne

I've read a lot of his forays..
always fascinating.

back to p j wodehouse for bedtime reading : "much obliged , jeeves ! "

Henry James, The American. Have had the book for years., never read it.

Well, I'll say I haven't stopped reading it yet, despite temptation.

A thousand Splendid Suns

Oy, that's an emotional tough one, carrie. I cried with them....

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I am reading "The witch of Portobello" by Paulo Coelho, whose writing I like
very much. The book is lovely!