What BOOK are you reading right now?

"The Laughing Monsters" - Denis Johnson - "A"

"This Savage Song" - Victoria Schwab - "B" - Fantastic imagination; not so much great writing

"Autonomous" - Analee Newitz - Just started

"Borne: A Novel" - Jeff VanderMeer - "A+" Post-Apocolpsye Herman Melville

I enjoyed it, but not his best.

Are you trying to tell us you have quite a swelled head?

(sorry, I just could not resist that one)

S'OK - I do, and a big cranium as well

its like shooting fish in a barrel

Quite witty. LOL

I started that one too. Great vocabulary, but he sent me to the dictionary once too often.

Ha! You wish.

I agree

I agree. I don’t know what I was expecting, but ...

Salvador Dali autobiography

Found a Gaiman in a Little Library. Will give it a try but I dunno. I've got some kind of visceral reaction against his books. Weird since I really enjoy him on twitter. Gonna try.

Also found a proof copy of The Reluctant Fortune Teller by Keziah Frost in a Little Library. Am reading and enjoying it now. A bit cute but a nice break after some of the heavier books about Turkey and Persia I'd been reading.

Finished last week:
My Boyfriend Is a Bear by Pamela Ribon (a short mostly visual graphic novel)
Finished last night:
Joyride Vol. 1 by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly (another short graphic novel)
Finished this morning:
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. The audiobook being narrated flawlessly by Colin Firth.

listening to audio book, "So Much for That" by Lionel Shriver.

Just looked her up, she also wrote "We Need to Talk About Kevin"

She's a Guardian columnist and a semi regular talking head on various news networks over here.

I love her.

I've never actually read her written word, but I'm going to check out her other works.

I watched the movie "We've got to talk about Kevin" and I hadn't realized it was a book. I was really moved by the film, and c0uld really identify with the female lead (played by Tilda Swinton).

Same in "So Much for That" Shriver ruthlessly cuts through the bullshit of how we are "supposed" to behave in terrible/horrible life situations, both chronic and acute, and forces (I see it at let's you) see it through it through the eyes of the person living through it.

I especially love the characters Flicka and Glynis in So Much for That.

I've not read any of her books, but I have read quite a few of her columns and seen her interviewed a number of times.

I'm reading an exciting new book "Finding Yourself in the Town of Geniuses" by Valentina Knurova. Delightful combination of non-fiction, fiction, fantasy and self-help.
Reading this book, you will go on an amazing journey through the world of geniuses. You will meet Professors from the University of geniuses, play magic cards with Fate, interview Salvador Dali, visit the “Change yourself” shop and the Square of complaints about life.
The author presents her thesis: We can all be geniuses in some aspect of life.

Given that Anthony Bourdain's name comes up in this thread most often when I do a site search, I'll drop this off here.

RIP

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/blog/his-depression-won-rose-mcgowan-says-anthony-s-bourdain-s-suicide-was-not-his-girlfriend-s-fault-1.4701061


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Getting Schooled, Garret Keizer
Real Talk for Real Teachers, Rafe Esqyith
another go at Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood

My daughter is reading the Atwood, and I thought it’d be fun to do a cross-country book club.