What BOOK are you reading right now?

Here's an interesting and well presented talk on jealousy and literature.

http://www.ted.com/talks/parul_sehgal_an_ode_to_envy.html?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=button__2013-10-23

She should read Jane Austen and see how to do it with grace and style.

Those pants are really naff. And signalling where the audience ought to nervously laugh is really quite ordinary to say the least.

I'm reading two books in tandem. Emily Bronte: Heretic by Stevie Davies and Wuthering Heights & Poems by the divine nut-job herself.

BUILDING TRADITIONAL KITCHEN CABINETS

by James Tolpin

I hope it has a happier ending that the DIY currach.

Me too, The Divine Comedy by Dante and Lord Iffy Boatrace by Bruce Dickinson.

I just finished an art mystery set in Italy and England, Giotto's Hand, by Iain Pears. Um. I was anxious to finish it as I found tedious after a while but still wanted to find out what actually happened. Maybe I've just read one too many art mysteries over the years.

Now I can get back to a book I'm liking a lot, The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones. I know a fair amount about that, but am learning more.

Currently reading:

Fuzzy Thinking, by Bart Kosko

It's about how many things are neither completely true nor completely false but are true to a certain degree.

I don't really like Lord Iffy Boatrace, but I'm half way through. The author, Bruce Dickinson is a polymath, but I don't think that makes him a great writer.



http://moreintelligentlife.co.uk/blog/ed-cumming/hunting-modern-polymaths

I'm currently reading John Safran's Murder In Mississippi. It's a fun read and very riveting. You can read the synopsis here if you are interested:
http://www.bookworld.com.au/book/murder-in-mississippi/40683412/

I saw John on zemiro's show on the abc recently, talking about his unexpectedness of becoming a 'serious' author. Are you an Aussie? Welcome to a2k. Oh, a bookworld synopsis pretty much answers that.

I'm waiting for hinge to say what he's reading, as I consider his usual take on the world warped enough to make me laugh out loud on numerous occasions.

I mean warped in the nicest sense of the word, by the way.

Sort of.

I think.

Sadly most of what I read is nonfiction and work related. Blah. If I'm lucky it's only a 140 character tweet.

Thanks for the synopsis - I think I'm going to have to read this one.

Hi dear at Right now At Night We Walk in Circles book i read it written by Daniel Alarcon he is a good writer .
The breakout book from a prizewinning young writer: a breathtaking, suspenseful story of one man's obsessive search to find the truth of another man's downfall.

First time I've given myself permission to read a novel for ever. Only 30 pages in but enjoying it.

Just finished "The Magicians" by Lev Grossman.

It was an entertaining read, but I'm not sure it was much more than a strange attempt at a "real world" version of Narnia and Harry Potter.

Now reading China Mieville's "Railsea" love this guy's imagination and way with words, but I'm not sure it's going anywhere.

I loved his "King Rat" and "Perdidio Station" but I couldn't finish "Kraken" or "Embassy'" and I almost never put a book aside without finishing it, no matter how bad I think it is.

Sometimes food can be so rich you can't manage another bite.

I am reading "Wings of fire" book before using internet, which is written by the APJ Abdul Kalam. "Wings of fire" is the most popular book of APJ Abdul Kalam.

I thought I would read Why Johnny Can't Read. I find not much has changed and that the book exposes what is wrong with many teachers . . . and doctors for that matter.

I would like to ask posters how old they were when they started reading and what or who influenced them to become readers.