What BOOK are you reading right now?

Jeez, BigWizz, I'm impressed by your back list! I read Underworld and Mason & Dixon when they were published, and loved 'em both. Disgrace, too, though that was tough to like.

Now reading Something on the Side, Wm. Trevor's latest collection of stories. Wonderful stuff...

Well it's less impressive when you factor in that most of them have been sitting on my shelf for over a year...

It was a "Well I payed for them darn it!" discission.

Younger son has been assigned Dandelion Wine. I may borrow it while he's not reading it.

Wm. Trevor
D'Art,

I don't have Trevor's latest book, but I'm picking off stories in his "Collected Stories." The most recent I've read is The Paradise Lounge. An ingeniously constructed story offering a look at love on the sly and suffering.

I rank Trevor among the best short story writers I've read.

I'm reading "Local Heroes" by Adam Hart Davis, produced by the BBC, and features the inventions of famous and not-so-famous British personalities.

It's alright if you like that sort of thing!

I have sort of a rule, if a book hasn't captured me by page 100 I put it down and either forget it or give it another try when my life has changed.
When I started the Rule of Four I gave the authors a break, they were spending a lot of pages developing characters and not a lot of time moving the action along, so I thought what the heck, let's keep going and see if it gets any better.

It does not get any better. In fact, there is a massive editing error/ writing error/ something weird about page 150 that makes the rest of the book a mess. They try to save it all with the world's longest ending ever put on paper.

The movie, and there will be a movie, will improve things.

Reading a Maeve Binchy about subway travellers while I'm on my subway ride. Easy to put down and pick up.

Nuttin' serious here.

Maeve Binchy, Beth?

Mrs Bib is a Binchy fanatic.

I just bought her "Nights of Rain and Stars" recently for a Christmas present.

I'm not quite a fanatic, but I find her a nice mild read.
A gouda, not a limburger.
:wink:

The Enigma of Arrival by VS Naipaul.....it
is a quiet book so far, very leisurely, not
to be read in a hurry..... Perfect for settling into an armchair before the fireplace on a winter's afternoon with a pot of tea and an assortment of bon bons.......

Good for you, shepaints--The Enigma of Arrival is an excellent choice, although perhaps not for everyone. You need to adjust to its slow, incremental style. Very close to Proust, to my way of thinking. I'm currently on a Graham Greene kick and am now finishing The Comedians (quite good) after reading The Heart of the Matter (so-so) and Loser Takes All (a charming fairy tale.)

Really?

Heart of the Matter is the only Greene I've read, and I've been dying to squeeze another Greene novel into the end-of-semester (grad school) regimen.

Loved that book!

Sorry.......I'm reading 'How To Make Love Like a Pornstar' by Jenna Jameson. It was recommended in the Guardian book section as a 'rollicking good read'...........and it soo is! I just felt like something different! I went to the local library to order it, glad that it was quiet as I was a little to say the title. The librarian was a large lady of 50(ish) with half moon specs and an attitude! I'd mantrad all the way to the counter 'all books are books and therefore sacred' (who said that?), so when I asked for it (by title) with a cheery smile, I wasn't expecting her reaction......she looked like I'd just thrown open my raincoat and flashed my merkin at her!!! She was horrified! I said (with attitude right back at her) "it's not a self help manual you know!" and "the Guardian recommended it!" as if this explanation would soften the insult of the title. Anyways, they didn't have it....so I got it from Amazon. I should have said.........."have you got Lady Chatterley's Lover then!" :wink:

Getting to Yes.

For a work seminar.

<sigh>

It's so 1980's.

im reading a really great book right now...

"Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs" by Chuck (really hard last name to spell and to lazy to get up and get the book" ah but its great... you should check it out...

That sounds good! Have you read 'Cider with Roadies' by Stuart Marconie?

nope cant say that i have... what is it about?

I am reading A tree grown in Brooklyn.

It is a hormone movie in print I tell ya.
Writting is pretty good. Nothing to write home to momma about but enjoyable all the same.

i am reading "Pride and Prejudice" for like the fifteenth time now

"Peter Pan" (J.M. Barrie) (in English for the first time), and "Just so stories" (R. Kipling) (also in English for the first time)
(I'm so serious! Can't believe it! )