What BOOK are you reading right now?

Read "Nomura," the book about the investment company founded in Japan in the late 1800s . They became one of the biggest finance companies in the world. Too bad they're not family. LOL

Just started reading "Let the Great World Spin" by Colum McCann. I don't have an opinion yet. Anyone else read it?

I think I may just finish Hearts in Atlantis this afternoon, or tonight, after endless frustrating interruptions. I'm really enjoying it.

I decided to read Black Hole first. I then promptly returned it after reading 30 pages. I'm not a prude so the explicit sex and drug use and grotesquely surrealistic diseases afflicting the plague victims didn't bother me ... it was how it was just depicted in a very annoying fashion. Too much teenage melodrama for my taste.

Swimpy, that book is top on my list...the reviews are good.

interesting, i quite enjoyed it, but i'm a big fan of burns work, and can quite often overlook the written content of a graphic novel if the art work holds my attention, the ultimate situation is to have both of course

I bought it because of the reviews and that the author is Irish. I'm enjoying it so far, but not really that far into it.

finished this

Set in the imaginative realm of the award-winning comic book series FABLES, PETER and MAX is a stand-alone prose novel - the first ever published starring FABLES characters! Long ago, in the deepest dark of The Black Forest, two brothers - Peter Piper and his older brother Max - encountered ominous forces that changed them both irreparably. Thus begins an epic tale of sibling rivalry, magic, music and revenge that spans medieval times to the present day, when their deadly conflict surfaces in the placid calm of modern day Fabletown. PETER and MAX: A FABLES NOVEL features the deft prose of award-winning comic book writer Bill Willingham and lush ink spot illustrations from FABLES artist Steve Leialoha. The novel also reveals secrets of some of the regular FABLES series cast members including Bigby Wolf, Frau Totenkinder and Bo Peep. Included as well is an 8-page bonus sequential comic story by Willingham and Leialoha that serves as a bridge to the FABLES graphic novel collections.

finishing this


The Sad Tales of the Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington
In the plague-wracked and devil-haunted darkness of Medieval Europe, an elite few enjoy opulent lives while the majority ekes out a miserable existence in abject poverty. Hungry creatures stalk the deep woods and desolate mountains, and both sea and sky teem with unspeakable horrors. For those ill-fated masses not born into wealth, life is but a vicious trial to be endured before the end of days.

Hegel and Manfried Grossbart, however, couldn’t care less. Being of low birth means little, after all, when the riches of the mighty wait just inside the next crypt.

Embarking on a naïve quest for fortune, the strangely pious, graverobbing twins attempt to keep their faith no matter the consequences. Theirs is a world both familiar and distant; a world of living saints and livelier demons, of beguiling beauties and cruel tragedies, of monsters and madmen. The Brothers Grossbart are about to discover that all legends have their truths, and worse fates than death await those who would take the red road of villainy...

I'm on page 2 of my next Gianrico Carofiglio book, which is the third in the series he wrote. Title, Reasonable Doubt. Looking good already..

http://italian-mysteries.com/GCAap.html

I had order the next two and got this one first. If I get the second book in the mail today maybe I can stop my self from reading them out of order. not that I'm sure that matters in this case.

His bios list him as a judge in Bari, as a prosecutor in Bari, and now as a consultant to the Italian government on organized crime (a job I can imagine conflicts in, heh). Besides all that, I like his writing a great deal, for his descriptive ability, his emotional sense, his style.

Swimp, I would buy almost any book by an Irish author. They are born story tellers. It is in their DNA.

I've been looking into my Irish roots recently and this author seemed a good fit for where I am right now.

Memories of O'Faolain, I so liked her at the time. As a sort of opposite, I'm a Trevor fan.

Tell us more, Kara.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. It's the first of a trilogy by Stieg Larsson. I got it as a Christmas gift and am enjoying it so much I've ordered the 2nd book and pre-ordered the third.

Oh! I've read about him, but not read his books..

Yeah, a very interesting story... He died within days of turning the manuscripts over to a publisher.

From wiki

This is a rare case where I'd like to both read the books and see the movie(s). I tend to like nordic crime writing in general, starting with the old series by maj sjovall and per wahloo, my first experience with such. Those might seem a little ragged to me now, but they were the ones that sparked my interest.

I did read that he had died, but failed to put his books on my so-called wish list.
I found another bunch to add today, listed in the back of the #2 in the trilogy by Gianrico Carofiglio... several names I've never heard of.

Part of why I like these kind of books is the generally good writing, and another part is 'sense of place' - all this besides the usual wanting to know how it all works out.

I think you might be right there, Kara.

Could I ask which are your particular favourite authors/books? (yes, I know the list could be extensive.)

Me, I love Jennifer Johnston's writings on aspects of "the troubles" on ordinary people's lives. Not big fat tomes, but beautifully written & so on the ball.

Working mentally on this, msolga, after Osso asked a few posts ago. I'm recovering from two tranches of family infusion over the hols. Back soon. BTW, everyone in my family has read or is reading Sieig Larssen books. One son refused to wait for the latest one to be published here and paid through the nose to get it from Amazon.co.uk.

Arabian Nights (again) - I LOVE that book...
Diary of a wimpy kid - it is a kids book but I am SOOOOOOOO enjoying it

Hi prince, I'm going to India again in November for 23-days, but this time it'll be South India starting in Chennai and ending in Mumbai. Have you been in touch with kitchenpete and steve? Been away from London, because of the high cost to visit, but it seems the exchange rate of our currencies may attract more Americans to the UK in the future.