What are you reading? I'm just about to start Malcolm Gladwell's

[applegrove]

"David and Goliath". I'm so excited. Gladwell has to be one of my favourite authors.

[hibbing]

1. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Hi,
This is written by Cheryl Strayed, an excellent book that I am really enjoying. For some reason I love books about people that are lost in their lives, just like I seem to have always been and am afraid I always will be. It is creative non-fiction.

Peace

[Aristus]

2. The collected fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.

Some good, some not so good...

I know Lovecraft isn't exactly Dostoyevsky, but he's entertaining...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

and all that.

I love Lovecraft. His style is a bit over the top, but he can tell quite a story.

[Aristus]

7. His style is easy to imitate, too.

"I dare not describe that eldritch horror for fear of the madness that should surely overtake me!"

How's that?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Well done!

The emails I get from a friend are always in Lovecraft's style. He's a composer. We've been considering writing a Lovecraft opera.

[Aristus]

9. That would be cool!

I'd go see that opera!...

[Ron Obvious]

3. Ruth Rendell

The latest Inspector Wexford novel has just arrived from Amazon.uk Wexford is now retired.

Ruth Rendell is a fantastic writer, but unfortunately she's pigeonholed as a genre writer and she's much more than that.

[Adsos Letter]

4. "Out of the Storm: the End of the Civil War" by Noah Andre Trudeau.

Covers events after the surrender of Lee's army at Appomattox.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. The new Stephen King book, "Dr. Sleep."

[Demo_Chris]

10. Hitchens "God is not Great" nt