What BOOK are you reading right now?

DIgital Fortress

Just finishing Reservation Blues, a first novel by Sherman Alexie, a Spokane Indian, whose previous work includes the PEN/Hemingway Award winner The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, a short story collection. I can't recommend this latest work highly enough. This dude can write!

I liked that a lot too.

The discworld series. I'm halfway through Moving Pictures. Don't spoil it!

The butler did it with the left-handed screwdriver.

I just finished Elmore Leonard's Djibouti. Oddly for me, I both don't like the book, especially the first half but somewhat all the way through (and I usually like his writing) at the same time I'm glad I read it. I've learned a lot. I'm still thinking about it.

Close to finishing John Lescroart's A Plague of Secrets. Lescroart is teriffic. He's what John Grisham would be if only Grisham could write.

Writing a note to myself on that one, Andy.

knowing Pratchet, that could be it

Half way through Gil's All Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez

I, Claudius.

Sherman Alexie is fabulous!

I read several of his books, on the recommendation of the Dys.

Agreed.

I read several of his books and liked some more than others. I don't remember which titles were which at this point. Anyway, I like him/his writing.


Right now I'm about ten pages from the end of Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake. I can't guess the end at this point.

I bought it with a quick glance at the Goodwill store, I'd heard the name, sounded interesting from a sentence or two on the back cover.

Interesting because whatever the characters, I can put myself in their places, including the ways they change. It's not a paced to thrill book - more real life than that. I got more engaged as I read along but was somewhat tuned in from the beginning, curiosity. The book is a saver for me, and I am giving away books in a speedy way recently.

Good writer.

Just started on John le Carre's The Mission Song. Haven't read enough yet to have a solid opinion but I've never read anything by le Carre that I didn't like to some extent, at least. Some are better than others, but he's a very gifted writer.

Agreed.

Haven't read that one.

Finished Randall Munroe's (of XKCD fame) hypothetical science tome, What If?.

Rereading Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know by Alexandra Horowitz.

Read Math For Life by Jeffrey Bennett. Interesting read, I'd recommend it for most anyone.

What sort of book is it? The title sounds like non-fiction but titles sometimes are deceiving.