What BOOK are you reading right now?

Thanks for your thoughts Msolga, it's a while
since I read it.....WARNING COMMENTS THAT WILL SPOIL WE WERE THE MULVANEY"S FOLLOW>>>>>>
Having grown up on a farm...the loss of Highpoint
was very poignant to me!

Done with "Hegemony" ready to start "Blowback"

shepaints

Yes, I grew up on a farm, too. (But I was a bit of a misfit in regard to "country life", I'm afraid. Couldn't wait to escape to the big lights! )
So I guess I didn't feel the loss as keenly as you, shepaints. I was more upset by the daughter's estrangement from the family for so long. It seemed so cruel after what she'd already been through.

newbie..interesting that you like WS plays but, dont like literature. Have you read them as well?
Perhaps you havent found your niche yet...keep trying, you'll find somthing that inspires you.

Was this you, Wilso...my cut and paste has left me wondering. Authors please?



sozobe, I really enjoyed Life of Pi (it changed my opinions about zoos forever...) but I had a question about the ending. I wonder if you will have it, too. For all of the interest and chatter about Da Vinci Code, I have read some devastating rebuttals of the literary value of this book. My husband read it and said he wished he hadn't wasted his time, which prompted me to wonder why he finished it.




msolga, I liked this book. I have read two or three of hers and liked them (back with titles when I remember) but there were a few others that I never finished.



McTag, he is considered one of the best observers of contemporary American life. I loved the Rabbit books. He is so devastatingly accurate in his depiction of modern mores that one sometime says Ouch upon reading a description or a sentence that reminds one of himself, a little too piercingly.

I am reading Robert Harris's Pompei, which I got for Christmas. It is a long slog though well written, and I may not finish, although he has done a masterful job of writing hundreds of pages leading to an ending we all know.

I finished Vernon God Little a few months ago. A most extraordinary book. If I set aside Pompei, it will be to begin The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh or The Cave by Jose Saramago. Next in line is Star of the Sea, by Joseph O'Connor.

I want to read The Rabbit Factory by Larry Brown but it is still stubbornly not out in PB.

Has anyone read any of the above and can tell me good/or/bad?

After Gautam said he was rereading Shall we Tell the President? for the third or fourth time, I got the book and loved it.

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.

I hate to sound pollyannis but it is kinda who I am. So here goes, I am just a housewife, mother, grandmother (to make matters worse, I am vain so I am including my age, 38) so my taste in books are not very educational other than a few political books that I have read this year. (Liars and lying liars... being the most recent) Anyway, I have to admit that my favorite author is Anne Rice. I just love those vampire chronicles, I am in love with Lestat. The other day I went to the library and checked out blackwoods Farm and read it all in one day with no skipping. (I tend to skip on most other books) My other favorite is Joanna Lindsey.

So I guess I have blown any pretensions I may have attempted. Just thought I would share for what its worth or not.

LOL, revel. I think most of us tend to talk about the heavy books we read and "forget" to mention the paperbacks pushed under the bedskirt.

I've had a real reading binge over the past week. (Making up for the endless months when I couldn't concentrate.)

Last read:

Doris Lessing's The Summer Before The Dark.
Douglas Kennedy's The Big Picture & A Special Relationship.
A big dip into my old & trusty volume of E E Cummings poems.

It lovely to get stuck into books again!

Anyone here familiar with Robert Stone? I've decided, after hesitating for years, to read one of his books. I picked up "Dog Soldiers" yesterday. Concerns the sleazy side of the '70s, among other things. I have a hunch I'll love it.

d'Artagnan, He is an excellent writer. I have read his Outerbridge Reach. It stayed with me for a long time.

I have Bay of Souls (I think that is the right title...) and will start it soon.

Ellen Ross, The Grief of God: Images of the Suffering Jesus in Later Medieval England (Oxford, 1997.)
Light reading.

Oh boy, hobitbob, hop to it! So whose work evoked these images?

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Its actually quite a good book. She divides it up into literary allusions (Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, John Mirk, etc.), religious iconography, and drama.

A wonderful writer has left us. M. M. Kaye died at an advanced age. She wrote The Far Pavillions, a novel of romance and action at the time of the British raj, among many other works. I read it twenty years ago and, despite its 1000 pages, I couldn't put it down. It is still in print, as are most of her books.

Other books re the British in India that I have
enjoyed are:
Freedom at Midnight
A Passage to India

Msolga....I also read the Summer Before Dark, I
think, was it about a woman who was a simultaneous translator?

Shepaints, Passage to India was another on my all-time best reads.

Thanks, Kara, for your comments re Stone. I'm looking forward to starting Dog Soldiers this weekend. I've read that Stone is a novelist who explores paranoia as a theme, among other things. One of my favorite world views!