Books - what are you reading/have you just finished/intend to read

[ashling]

as usual, I have several things I am reading at once - some of which I will actually finish.

The one I am working at tonight: A New Engagement? Political Participation, Civic Life, and the Changing American Citizen

[loli phabay]

1. well im gonna read 50 shades as the misses says its a riot

just finished a couple of sven hassel novels, the punic wars, herodutus histories(an old favourite) some wierd vampyre book with vampyres and werewolvers falling in love etc etc that i dont get. a tom clancy, and a couple of history books. i like to read on the dunny

[Bertha Venation]

9. I can't do that. My butt gets sore.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. the..dunny?

I think I know what you mean, but have never heard the word.

[loli phabay]

33. the golden throne :)

[Lil Missy]

2. The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

[Graybeard]

3. Stephen King's 11/22/63.

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It's a daunting 850+ pages. It's big, heavy books like this that the NOOK is perfect for.

[pipi_k]

6. If you're a Stephen King fan...

you're in for a treat.

I read it soon after it was released last November.

Good stuff!

History, fiction, love story, a touch of the supernatural, the usual Stephen King brand of wry comedy...all wrapped up in one book.

[annabanana]

4. I'm way way way behind on my non-political reading..

(Just getting around to the Nanny Diaries)

[twizzler]

5. I have an unquenchable thirst for reading

I can't get enough. I love action books, spy thrillers, crime dramas, biographies, I just finished reading a sci-fi called Ghost Boat.
Also a book that I could not put down called The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien.

[Bertha Venation]

7. currently reading The Remains of the Day

it's heartbreaking

[Flaxbee]

19. I keep walking around that one. It's on my shelf, but I can't quite bring

myself to read it. I read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter a while back and was so damn depressed for so long I decided to spare myself further emotional agony.

It's supposed to be just beautifully written, though.

[pipi_k]

8. Just started the third book in a

trilogy about the life of Robert the Bruce, of Scotland.

What's after that, I don't know. I have approx. 700 books on my Kindle Fire right now.

Booklovers, these e-readers (whichever brand) are great!

I get at least five (FREE) books a week from Pixel of Ink on Facebook.

[WillParkinson]

22. I looked at Pixel of Ink on Facebook, but...

Just see Kindle books. Are there any Nook ones that you're aware of?

[turtlerescue1]

10. Just started and finished a J. Patterson

Been behind on reading lately, but "Sail" kept me up all night reading.

and my eyes may never get over it...

Having lived a couple decades in MN, of course John Sanford is a favorite. Now that I live in Arkansas, each Sanford is like a visit.

[Paladin]

11. "Creole Belle," James Lee Burke's Latest.

Like all Burke's Dave Robicheaux mysteries, it is glorious......

[Curtland1015]

12. Just finished "The Strain" trilogy by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan.

Apocalyptic virus/vampire monster books. Fast paced fun/action escapism.

Just started "The Godfather", by Mario Puzo. Don't want to spoil anything... but it starts with a wedding.

[benld74]

13. Simon Green Nightside Series with antihero John Taylor

Fantasy PI living in the Nightside where esoteric friends, characters, beings, dimensions places live and prosper. Wonderful dry dialog between characters. SImilar to the Dresden Files series, but definitely worth the read!

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. 2 short stories by Lee Child

His Jack Reacher books are a fun bedtime read.

Donald Harstad is a new author I have found, very breezy, lots of character development. Only wrote 3 boosk so far,
I am on The Big Thaw now.
"Donald Harstad is an American novelist and former police officer specializing in crime fiction and police procedurals. Prior to taking up writing, he had a 26 year career with the Sheriff's Department of Clayton County, Iowa, retiring as a Deputy Sheriff. His first novel, Eleven Days, was loosely based on a case he worked on during that time, and he is known for drawing on his career in law enforcement for details of police and investigative procedure. All of his novels are set in rural Nation County, Iowa, and include many of the same characters, primarily centering on police officer Carl Houseman, a loose analog for Harstad himself. "
I like "police procedurals" for when the brain is tired, usually bedtime reading.

And for real brain food, Robert Caro's The Passage of Power, his 4th of a 5 book biography of LBJ.
Caro can be repetitive and rather dense reading, but chockfull of details.
I have all 4 of the books and may read them again.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

16. Like you I am reading several books at once

The most recent one I've bee reading is Barry Gustafson's biography of Sir Robert Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1975 to 1984. I've actually read it before but can't remember most of it so am starting again

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. I've got to ask..

what attracted you to the book?
Are you from down under,
or.....?

[applegrove]

17. "The Great Divergence" by Timothy Noah.

[Odin2005]

20. "Parable Of The Sower" by Octavia Butler.

[WillParkinson]

21. The Elf & The Shoemaker (which I just finished about 10 minutes ago...)

The Elf and Shoemaker by M.L. Rhodes

An Amazon.com GLBT Fiction bestseller!
Amber Allure bestseller!

Logan Shoemaker is honest, hardworking, and loves what he does. Though he never expects to get rich, up until recently he’s fared well enough with his quirky metaphysical store, Shoemaker’s Magick Shoppe, to stay comfortable. But when the economy comes on hard times, his store pays the price. As each month passes, slow sales turn into no sales, and soon Logan’s living off ramen noodles and sleeping in a freezing house during the cold winter nights as he struggles to make ends meet. His personal life isn’t much better—the worse business at the store grows, the more isolated and lonely he becomes. After a string of mishaps that wipe out the last of his small savings, he finally hits rock bottom the day he discovers the disconnection notice from the electric company hanging on his door. That night, desperate and in despair, he makes a plea to the universe, asking for help.

Needless to say, he never anticipates receiving a response so quickly. Not only does he wake up the next morning to find on his kitchen table four little bottles of a special potion labeled “PASSION,” but he keeps remembering the erotically charged dream he’d had during the night. A dream where a tall, gorgeous man with pointed ears comes to his bed and shows him just what kind of magick they can make together.

But was it a dream? All Logan knows is that his customers can’t get enough of the PASSION potion–an aphrodisiac–and he can’t stop thinking about the sweet seduction of the nighttime visitor who made it. As he tries to sort out what’s real and what’s not, he discovers there’s a much bigger world out there than he’d ever believed, and his true heart’s desire might come in a most unexpected form.

[Brother Buzz]

23. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson

It's a novella and I'm really, really trying to read it slow so I can savor it.

[grntuscarora]

24. The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey.

My husband recommended it to me. I'm halfway through the book, and I think by the time I'm finished it will high on my list of favorites.

[JitterbugPerfume]

27. I absolutely love that book!

[UTUSN]

25. Finished "Myths," am halfway through "Legends" (or the other way around)

of the Sumerians/Assyrians compared to Hebrew traditions. Pre-1923 (free/public domain) downloads on Kindle. There was a whole lot of osmosis going on among ancient peoples with their religions. Noah and his Flood ain't just a river in Egypt.

I'm onto a chapter on astrology, so it's gonna get good. Reminds me of the friend (lady in her 60s) reading the 50 Shades deal, said that chapters 1-6 were all set-up, and "Something finally happened in chapter 7." I thought she'd zip through the book, but she's still not through after more than a week.

Interspersed with games of Free Cell (on Kindle).

[Auggie]

26. Finishing Dan Rather's "Rather Outspoken"

Rather was royally screwed by CBS / Viacom.

I've always liked him and had every reason to trust his integrity. Now even more so.

[sadbear]

28. Just finishing up Kerouac's "The Dharma Bums"

[JitterbugPerfume]

29. The Alphabet versus The Goddess

The conflict between Word and Image by Leonard Shlain, A fascinating book!

I just finished Origins by Neil DeGrasse Tyson and I loved it

[TuxedoKat]

32. I have that book

but haven't read it yet (autographed copy no less). I heard the author interviewed on the Coast-to-Coast radio program a couple of times which is why I bought it. Your other book sounds good too.

[GoneOffShore]

30. Just finished re-reading William Gibson's "Bigend" Triology

Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History.

And Banksy's Wall and Piece. Which was marvelous. His words sometimes as cutting as his art.

"The people who run our cities don't understand graffiti because they think nothing has a right to exist unless it makes a profit, which makes their opinion worthless."

[Mad_Dem_X]

31. I just finished Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn

Good book, lots of twists, but I wasn't crazy about the ending.

[sarge43]

34. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland n/t

[femmocrat]

35. "The Beautiful and Damned" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

I try to read some good literature every summer. "So many books, so little time....."