Cool. I just started Skinny Legs and All. My first time reading Robbins.
Nearly finished Tad William's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series.. Great fantasy, highly recomended
Hey, shepaints & Gautam ...
My local library surprised me by having a copy of A Fine Balance! I now have it in my hot little hands (it's BIG!) & it will be my next read after finishing the book I'm currently reading: Alison Lurie's The Last Resort. I'm looking forward to it.
Just picked up Tracks by Robyn Davidson.
This is the book I decided to read after hearing a song:)
Enjoy A Fine Balance Ms Olga! It's a great read
msolga wrote:Hey, shepaints & Gautam ...
My local library surprised me by having a copy of A Fine Balance! I now have it in my hot little hands (it's BIG!) & it will be my next read after finishing the book I'm currently reading: Alison Lurie's The Last Resort. I'm looking forward to it.
Glad to hear it Msolga. I will be interested to hear
your thoughts on this epic.
I'll be comparing notes with you good folk as I read!
trying to wade through a biography of (ex) british prime minister john major. some pretty fascinating details of his life both before becoming prime minister and when fighting hard to stay in power. it is interesting to note the differences in power between a canadian prime minister - who can rule almost unchallenged - and a british prime minister who - so it seems - has to almost constantly ensure the loyality of his cabinet. a phrase i picked up : the enemy does not sit on the other side of the house, but sits in the rows behind the prime minister.
What BOOK are you reading right now?
I am reading The Dark Tower lll by Stephen King.
msolga wrote:Hey, shepaints & Gautam ...
My local library surprised me by having a copy of A Fine Balance! I now have it in my hot little hands (it's BIG!) & it will be my next read after finishing the book I'm currently reading: Alison Lurie's The Last Resort. I'm looking forward to it.
Looking fwd to hearing yr thoughts on it !! Keep a tissue handy
"The Tales of Hoffman"
I was reading "The Tales of Hoffman." I found it very unintersting. I just looked for it but I misplaced it. It's around here someplace. I think.
E.T.A Hoffman's biography is much more interesting than his writing where horror or mystery is concerned. I based the decision to purchase the book after reading his biography. It was a mistake. I might research his biography to a great extent because it is interesting. Not the book.
Gautam wrote:msolga wrote:Hey, shepaints & Gautam ...
My local library surprised me by having a copy of A Fine Balance! I now have it in my hot little hands (it's BIG!) & it will be my next read after finishing the book I'm currently reading: Alison Lurie's The Last Resort. I'm looking forward to it.
Looking fwd to hearing yr thoughts on it !! Keep a tissue handy
OK!
I've brought a box of tissues especially for the purpose, Gautam! I'm starting the book today ... Will keep you posted. Maybe we can have a weep together?
now i am reading the dark tower 4 the wizard and the glass
Started reading The Years of Rice and Salt today, by Kim Stanley Robinson, same person that wrote the sci-fi Mars trilogy. He provides a fictional account of what life would've been like if the first Black Plague had wiped out the whole of Europe in the 13th century just as the mongol horde was coming, history written by the East instead of the West. It seems a good read, getting piercing insight into the attitudes and religions of the Chinese and Mongols. It seems a good book, anyone who enjoyed the Mars books would like it I think.
Garath--your Karl Marx quote is wrongly attributed. It comes not from THE GERMAN IDEOLOGY but is instead the last of the "Theses on Feuerbach."
I am reading a bunch of novels by Ward Just, who is a good, not great, living American novelist. Alas, he seems to have peaked some time ago. But he is still publishing and I am catching up on his last 3 novels.
Now reading Vince Flynn's "Term Limits." It's a political thriller.
The Testament- John Grisham
Inherit the Wind
Do plays count as books? I'm in what I think is my eighth reading of Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. No, not the general Robert E. Lee. It's based on the Scopes trial and I highly reccomend it. My school is going to do a performance this fall, so I'm quite excited about that. High hopes for the part of Drummond, the defense attorney.
Funny you should mention plays, I've been rereading Tom Stoppard's plays, starting with Jumpers. It's necessary to read them to understand the wit and philosophy!
