What are you reading lounge? I'm still

[applegrove]

reading Paul Theroux's " The Last Train to Zona Verde" about his travels in Africa.

[Chan790]

1. Currently?

The phone book, it's usually a great insomnia cure. Not so much at the moment.

Other than that, I just finished Infinite Jest which plays the dirty trick on you at the end of making you have to reread the first quarter of the book because it's written out of order and the chronologically-last month is the first part...and that part is largely written in flashbacks, going backwards in time.

Two books on graphic design, one training booklet for my ServSafe test and two books on self-employment: one motivational and the other a technical guide to running a freelance business.

[nomorenomore08]

2. 'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides. About 90 pages in, quite good so far.

I'm also in the middle of 'The Stars at Noon' by Denis Johnson - decent, but he's written far better - and 'The Inhuman Condition' by Clive Barker, which I've found generally enjoyable.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

3. Just about finished reading Sea of Cortez

by Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts. Its not a typical Steinbeck narrative, but the marine biology aspect to it was interesting. Next up is The Politics of Experience by R.D. Laing.

[HeiressofBickworth]

4. I saw a couple of movies based on

Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, got curious about which one was closer to the book, so I re-read the book (read it the first, or was it the second, time in 1982). Turns out, both movies weren't quite faithful to the book but both got the flavor of the period and the story anyway.

I'm still plugging away at Albion's Seed, history of migration to the New World.

[LonePirate]

5. "Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies" by Chris Kluwe

[a kennedy]

6. Stephen King's "From a Buick 8" another masterpiece. eom

[femmocrat]

7. I just finished "The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest"

and am expecting the movie from Netflix any day now.

I went back to this book, that I had abandoned twice: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. I am determined to finish it this week. The story is finally getting interesting!

[Bertha Venation]

8. a re-read

Historical fiction by Rita Mae Brown, High Hearts, a well-researched tale about a woman who disguises herself as a man and fights for the South in the Civil War.

Next is a biography that's waiting in my Kindle but which I've for gotten whose it is. (please check my grammar on that sentence)

[Aristus]

9. I'm reading a book about the cultural, literary, and scientific events that inspired Mary Shelly

to write "Frankenstein".

It's pretty good. A lot of detail about Percy Shelly, Lord Byron and John Polidori.

[JitterbugPerfume]

10. Just finishing What Would Jefferson Do by Thom Hartmann;

It is delightful, just like the author.

[sharp_stick]

11. Kraken by China Mieville

I'm only about a hundred pages in but it's filled with typical Mieville weirdness and fun.