What BOOK are you reading right now?

sounds great

sounds like something our library should carry

Right now? Neil Gaiman’s The View from the Cheap Seats, a pretty long book of essays and speeches.

after having this on the shelf for years, I've finally started



it's the size of a big brick, which is why I put off starting it - it's probably a book I should have loaded onto the Kindle instead of waiting to read the hard copy

it's fantastic so far

http://waynejohnston.ca/thecolonyofdreams.html

My "reading "of the new biography GRANT, was done as a B.O.T. It took me about 3 months to get through it because of its daunting length and detail. It was well worth it, now Ill look for a cc in a book sale so I can keep it as a reference

b.o.t.? book on tablet?

Books on Tape was/is an audiobook publisher. Probably that (cassette tapes and CDs).

they do streaming too but unless you listen all at once streaming can block up your car players. I prefer a CD in a car(bigger libraries also)

I'm currently reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.

Not so long back I began a book titled "100 hair-raising little Horror Stories." I gave up on it after several tales. They just were not that good. Example: A man stomps some ants before entering his house and uses abusive language toward them at the same time. He then goes in the bathroom, which fills with a huge army of ants. He tells the ants, "All right. I will give you anything you want." He is next described as being in a food store, purchasing the largest container of corn syrup he can get.

Sounds similar to the campfire stories told at that summer camp I was shipped off to way back when.

Sped through Nimona by Noelle Stevenson in a day. Started Patti Smith's M Train memoir this morning.

Currently reading Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur on the Kindle app of my phone.

I just finished "Cutdown" by John A. Miller. It was an easy read and only took a few days. I am not a heavy or avid reader, but got sick of what was on T.V. Will probably tackle "Mayday" by Jonathan Lynn next.

I'm about to start re-reading God Emperor of Dune, which I first read more than 30 years ago (I think). I'm also currently re-reading Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence by Heros von Borcke, a Prussian cavalry officer who went to great trouble to run the blockade into South Carolina, and then to join the Confederate States army. He's a tedious racist, repeating all the shop-worn bromides about lazy, shiftless blacks. He also knew far less about what was going on in the war than he seemed to think he did. But his is a primary source, and one of the few first-hand accounts of what the French call la petite guerre, the "little war," the war of posts between armies in which the cavalry attempts to discover what the enemy is doing, and to prevent the enemy from discovering what their army is up to.

Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. I don't know why but I was really hesitant to pick up this book even though it was highly recommended. Maybe I thought that a domestic narrative by a butler might be somewhat boring. But it hooked me from the start. The language is precise, the descriptions beautiful, the pace perfect, and the psychology fascinating. Call me an Anglophile but I'm really loving this book.

To me? Most of his books in summary wouldn't appeal to me. But I loved each and everyone I've read so far.

Never Let Me Go is a great work of science fiction but the science is so far into the background, it's like wallpaper... hardly noticeable. Yet, it's still the foundation of the novel. This one had the best chance of appealing to me... which probably helped that it was his first book I read.

When We Were Orphans is an unorthodox mystery that transcended its coming of age in period Shanghai framework.

I'll get around to Remains of the Day but since it's relatively short, I won't get in on audiobook (as the other two I've read) and will likely get it in paperback.

The Grave's a Fine and Private Place (Flavia de Luce, #9) by Alan Bradley

I'm reading...

For school:
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Divergent by Veronica Roth

For self:
The Vow by Kim and Krickitt Carpenter (true events)
Magnus Chace and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

They are all great books

I just ran into a new book on the net, "Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad." I'm looking to check out the local library first; if they don't carry it, I'll order from the net.

Currently reading the very enjoyable The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1) by Charles Stross.

Prior to that:
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss, Marlon Bundo (Inspiration), E.G. Keller (Illustrator) [The children't book featured by John Oliver in which parodies the VP Mike Pence family bunny book that was also released this week].
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Heechee Saga, #2) by Frederik Pohl.