What BOOK are you reading right now?

I agree, rog'. His cowboys all sound like wise-cracking private eyes.

Don't suppose anyone got 'Rebecoming the greatness we never weren't'?

Kate Atkinson is one of the best writers out there today. Her narrations, characters, and observations are wonderful. It may be surprising that she is writing detective fiction. I am reading another in her series about private investigator Jackson Brodie. BBC has turned her novels into television dramas. I hope they will be shown on PBS.

Thorstein Veblen's Absentee Ownership(3rd time).

Right up your street wande.

The Brain Thief by Alexander Jablokov

"Chase A Rocket Plane" By Bob Brodsky, a friend. It's autobiographical and tells about his experiences since he was a young kid, and growing up, getting into a lot of mischief, and becoming a Rocket Scientist.

the bbc adaptations (first 3 novels) are quite enjoyable, just re-watched them the other night

really looking forward to more

after the explosive antics of mathew reilly's "temple". i'm winding down with the blunt, lawyer talk of "the rainmaker" by josh grisham. dialogue feels old timey, as opposed to lawyer banter. good book so far.

Romance & Legend of Chivalry by A.R. Hope Moncrieff.

streetcar reading



mmm yeah not as readable as some of the reviews suggest

"Touched with Fire" by James M. Perry. I started it nearly two years ago, but misplaced it during the move....but re-found it, and now going to finish it.

It's about the five presidents that fought in the Civil War....Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison, McKinley. There is a great deal of spit on the pages of the Grant section, but I have no idea how that got there.

That is one of my liked books.

I was reading this article about the way Kurt Vonnegut (r.i.p) once asked his students to review some stories:
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2012/11/kurt_vonnegut_term_paper_assignment_from_the_iowa_writers_workshop.html

and I thought,
"Holy cow, for the most part, that is exactly how the folks on A2K review the books they are reading."

and, as I am so often, I was reminded of how valuable this site and you all are.

Joe(ok, fricking group hug, right?)Nation

Really?

I really liked ...



can I get a kiss with my hug?

Ah, Vonnegut! Such a treat to wake up, sip my coffee, and read that piece.

Recommended to me by my son Nigel.
He also recommended those thin shoes with toes, but that ain't gonna happen.

Roget's Thesaurus looking for witty Spoonerisms.

Osamu Tezuka's Ayako!

I'm starting to reread a book CI said he just bought about the Medici. I remember being irritated in the beginning and am again. He sets up Cosimo in the tower and leaves him while he describes the bricks of Firenze.

It is Christopher Hibbert's The House of Medici, its rise and fall.

I've read him before, about Rome, and this one a bunch of years ago. My memory is like a sieve, as they say, but sometimes pinpointing. Anyway, I remember his books as data that helped me figure stuff out, but not books I somehow liked.

I've read a lot of all this elsewhere, long before I read Hibbert, but I'll read this for now (as in, I don't have a handy novel nearby).