What BOOK are you reading right now?

Not on purpose, but now that you mention it, you're right, he did find it impossible to attain a capital R here.

I decided to reread John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman. I was in grad school at Wayne State when my professor, who taught the Romantic period, recommended it. I read it at the time and loved it. I kept the original paperback edition, its orange cover now faded. I see so much more in the book than I did at the time. A lovely return.

Has anybody read Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow? What do you think?

Never read it, will keep my eye out.

I've been reading a guy suggested by Roger. Roger and I are very different but sometimes our book interests cross. A guy I think I like- wavering - is Nelson deMille; he's information dense. I've probably said I liked his books before, particularly the one about Vietnam.

"The Wettest County in the World". Its a fact based novel about a bootlegger in the Hills of Virginia around and beyond the time of Prohibition.
The writer, , a giy named Bondourant, hs a style similr to those of Elmore L:eonard or Cormat McCarthy.

I haven't made it into McCarthy, maybe I started with the wrong book, boring to extremis at some large number of pages.

Leonard, well, sure, and his son too, the one I read.

Taking note.

I'd give Cormac McCarty another chance, Osso. He is a fantastically good writer. Gets dialects down in an unforgetable way. He impresses the hell out of me. Leonard is now way past his prime. He used to be good but everything recent has been fomula and not particularly well done either.

I am reading the third book in a series of mysteries by Kate Atkinson. They feature private detective Jackson Brodie. The stories have been filmed as a BBC series called Case Histories.

Am rereading Kate Simon's ITALY, The Places In Between.

Since I read it the first time, I've been to a lot of those places and have read more about the others. This is a book best read, perhaps, with street maps at hand, and maybe or maybe not, google images, but I'm not that obsessive and I like surprise in travel.

I directly contrast this book to the one I whined on and on about by Frances Mayes a while ago, A Year in the World. I ended up gradually liking that one more than I hated it, but was irritated about once a page. Simon, in contrast, inspired some of my later travel choices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Simon

I started with the 4th or 5th in this series. Finally found #1 at VV, and am going to start over again. I'm enjoying these more than some of the other McCall Smith series, though he's generally good reading.

lovin' it, about 3/4 through...

I found that one to be highly entertaining, too, and plan a re-read at a slower pace one of these days. The ending is near perfect, IMO.

sssssssssssssI bet you like my reading "nook"

wow!

Love it.
I'd need one more pillow. I'm crazy about bookshelves and like bookshelf history too, have a book about it (I think it's in my present laundry room).

You can get a glimpse of the bookshelves I spec'ed but had built (redwood) in my (then) murphy bed/guestroom closet, photos in process:













Lordy, I miss that house.

where did it go?

I had to move - finances. That was in northern california.