What book(s) are you currently reading?

[mvd]

I'm finishing Fooled Again by Mark Crispin Miller, and have started Animals In Translation by Temple Grandin. So far, Animals In Translation seems very rewarding for animal lovers.

[huskerlaw]

1. No Ordinary Time

by Doris Kearns Goodwin and Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides.

[RevolutionaryActs]

2. Great Expectations

and the INXS Autobiography. (:blush:)

[SeattleGirl]

3. "Rage" by Jonathan Kellerman

for my fiction selection. Re-reading parts of "The Bush Dislexicon" by MCMiller (I want to get Fooled Again).

[mvd]

6. I've love Fooled Again

I's nice how it goes into detail about the not-so-obvious things the RW does to influence elections. There is more than possible voting machine fraud.

[SeattleGirl]

10. Excellent. I will definitely get a copy of it!

I like Mark Crispin Miller a lot -- he can make sense of some crazy stuff.

[AlanAdam]

4. Engineering Documentation Control Handbook

Somebody, pleeeeaaasssee shoot me.

[skygazer]

5. Fascinating book about nazi germany

Called The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust. It's about the Ahnenerbe, a scientific research institute founded and financed by the SS. It's purpose was to "prove" scientifically that the so-called Aryan race was the originator of all cultural advances from pre-history onward. In this capacity, they funded expeditions to places as diverse as Sweden, the middle east and Tibet and skewed research and science to fit their racial theories and strengthen their case against the Jews as an "inferior race."

Frightening and fascinating - the things those people put forth as science were just unbelievable.

The other book I'm reading is called Among the Dead Cities by AC Grayling. It's a very good historical and philosophical look at the allies' bombing of civilians during WWII. Something that is not often touched upon in depth.

[khashka]

7. Beauty by Sheri Tepper.....

and Macho Sluts by Pat Califia

Khash.

[JitterbugPerfume]

29. I love Sherri Tepper

:hi:

[CatholicEdHead]

8. American Theocracy

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067003486X/ref=pd_bbs_null_1/002-8266773-4872063?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

[Left Is Write]

9. The Third Secret by Steve Berry.

[frogmarch]

11. The Know-It-All

"One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World"

By A.J. Jacobs

"The Know-It-All is a hilarious book and quite and impressive achievement. I've always said, why doesn't someone put out a less complete versin of the encyclopedia? Well done, A.J."
- Jon Stewart
Host of The Daily Show

[Carla in Ca]

12. Memorial Day by Vince Flynn

n/t

[Katherine Brengle]

13. Cunt: A Declaration of Independence (by Inga Muscio)

and The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich (this one may take the better part of the year to finish--very slow read).

Also, The Mismeasure of Woman by Carol Tavris.

[veganred]

14. My current book

Well I just finished Never Have Your Dog Stuffed by Alan Alda which was a great read.



I just dove into My Life by Bill Clinton and I am enjoying it a great deal. So far a great story of his life.

[Sequoia]

15. Manhunt The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer

by James Swanson.

Really great. All of you should read it. There's a DUer who's realted to Matthew Brady, the famous Civil War photographer, and Matthew Brady was called in to photograph the room in Ford's Theatre where Lincoln was shot on Good Friday, April 14, and this year Good Friday falls on April 14. Many people at that time were upset that Lincoln was in the "Devil's House" anyway and being there on Good Friday was even worse to them. They thought he was pretty low to go there when so many young men had just died in the war.

I'm sure many of you have read that piece floating around about the Lincoln and Kennedy comparisons. But here's another interesting tidbit I never knew: The chief of police in Washington DC when Lincoln was killed was John Kennedy. I understand there's a movie in the works from this book and all I can say is....NO TOM CRUISE!

[Spider Jerusalem]

19. That's me...

Mathew Brady married my g-g-g-g-g-aunt. (Oddly enough, I'm ALSO related to Dr. Samuel Mudd.)

[Sequoia]

24. Oh my goodness, you'll have to read the book for sure.

One of my relation's on my mom's side married that Longfellow guy who wrote Paul Revere's Ride and Song of Hiwatha. I remember you posted a photo of Matthew Brady, very good looking man.

[YankeyMCC]

16. The Iliad

I'm sort of inbetween books..waiting for my next book club shipment and picked up a good old standard.

[Sequoia]

28. I read that book two summers ago. I LOVED it.

Some of the war scenes were very gory and descriptive but also funny. Paris was a spoiled brat.

[JitterbugPerfume]

17. Just finished

Skeptics Inc by Bo Fowler , ready to start The Astrological Diary of God by the same author I am also slowly re reading the HitchHilkers Guide I bought Lovely Bones today , i somehow missed it so I will also start it soon

[Shine]

22. Oh....Lovely Bones is deeply moving and intense.

my advice: have tissues nearby.

:hi:

[JitterbugPerfume]

27. thanks Shine

I do not know how I managed to miss reading it:hi:

[Beaverhausen]

18. A Confederacy of Dunces

it's so funny and BIZARRE!

[JitterbugPerfume]

25. ooooh !

A Confederacy of Dunces is one of my all time favorites! So sad that he just wrote that one book >sigh>

[Beaverhausen]

36. He wrote one other - "Neon Bible"

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=0802132073&itm=3

Oh- I see he wrote this one when he was 15!!

Yes, it is sad that his life ended so soon.

[Shine]

20. The Kindness of Strangers: Tales of Fate and Fortune on the Road

it's a beautiful little gem of a book, filled with original and inspiring stories exploring the unexpected human connections that so often transform the experience of travel.

It celebrates the gift of kindness around the world. The Dalai Lama wrote the preface.

Very sweet...I heartfully recommend it! :thumbsup:

:hi:

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

21. Double Tap by Steve Martini and To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

[jus_the_facts]

23. Time Enough For Love ~ Robert Heinlein

The book focuses on the adventures and musings of Lazarus Long, the universe's oldest living person, who has grown weary and has decided that life is no longer worth living. It takes the form of several novellas tied together in the form of Lazarus's retrospective narrative.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love

[JitterbugPerfume]

30. GOOD SCI FI

I read it years ago and LOVE it:hi:

[jus_the_facts]

39. HEY JP....I'm lovin' it too...

....I have read about 2/3 the way thru and definitely enjoyin' it!! :hi: :hug:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

26. People of the Lie by M Scott Peck

I'd read it before but it is timely once again

[leeroysphitz]

31. "Girl In Landscape" by Jonathan Lethem

just finished "Amnesia Moon" by same.

[deadparrot]

32. About 43549854 textbooks simultaneously.

Oy. Must think about summer. Seven weeks.

[yellowdogintexas]

33. Cat in an Orange Twist, a Midnight Louie Mystery by

Carole Nelson Douglas.

I just love Louie.

and I suspect Ms Douglas of being a liberal, from various comments in this volume and the preceding one. She votes here too so that is good !

Louie, by the way is a 20 pound black cat, who fancies himself a Private Investigator

on edit: author website http://www.carolenelsondouglas.com/

[RetroLounge]

34. Reading a few

The Power of Now - Eckart Tolle
The Tao of Writing - Ralph Wahlstrom
Opening Your Own Bookstore - Paz Consultants
First 4 books of poems - Louise Gluck
The Haunted Bookshop - Christopher Morley

RL

[Redneck Socialist]

35. In Search of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker

It was written and published a bit before their "rediscovery" was announced. Interesting look at the history surrounding this bird.

I just finished Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. Good read. Not his best but still entertaining.

[JohnKleeb]

37. Havent started yet but

All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, its required for my history class but I want to read it too since I am gonna see the movie when out and Huey Long's story has intrigued me.

Hope Dies Last, the autobiography of Alexander Dubcek. Dubcek was a Slovak Communist President during the Cold War who in 1968 set out to make "Socialism with a human face" and Gorbachev said that these actions inspired Perestroka. The sad thing about Dubcek is that Brezenev and msot of the Warsaw Pact ruthlessly supressed the Prague Spring and he died soon after Slovakia became its own nation in a car crash.

[yellowdogintexas]

40. All the King's Men is a wonderful book.

I read it in high school, and I loved it.


RPW was born in my home county in Kentucky. Supposedly if you showed up on the Yale Campus and said you were from Todd County he would see you. I never had that opportunity, sadly.

[JohnKleeb]

43. I am gonna enjoy it

I picked up Main Street too even though we don't have to read both.

[BrotherBuzz]

38. A Treasury of the Sierra Nevada

A Treasury of the Sierra Nevada
edited by Robert Leonard Reid

The first and only anthology of writings about the Sierra. Contains selections from the first century-and-a-half of recorded history of the Sierra Nevada written by explorers, immigrants, poets, travelers, scientists, conservationists and mountain climbers. Here, of course, are Clarence King, John Muir, and David Brower, but also Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Robert Louis Stevenson. The book ends with an essay by Art Hoppe that reads almost like Richard Brautigan - I miss both of them.

[SofaKingLiberal]

41. See No Evil by Robert Baer

[GoddessOfGuinness]

42. "Bayou Farewell" by Mike Tidwell

and "No Time to Lose" by Pema Chödrön

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

44. "The End of Faith" by Sam Harris & "Sunshine on Putty" by Ben Thompson

The latter is bloody awful - and I knew it would be bloody awful but I got it for 99p - so I don't know if I'll bother returning to it.

[smitty]

45. "Island at the Center of the World" It's about the founding of

the city Manhattan by the Dutch in the 17th century and how Dutch laws, institutions and ideas have influenced the city down to today and why New York is different than any other city in the United States.

A great book, highly recommended.

[miss_american_pie]

46. The Mermaid Chair

:thumbsup:

[Nailzberg]

47. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown.

It's a good read for the drive to work. I bust a chapter at every stoplight.

[Sisaruus]

48. Currently reading four

Amazon Grace : Re-Calling the Courage to Sin Big by Mary Daly
Every Drop for Sale: Our Desperate Battle Over Water in a World About to Run Out by Jeffrey Rothfeder
The Moon and the Virgin: Reflections on the Archetypal Feminine by Nor Hall
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley

[DontBlameMe]

49. Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton...

got about 60 pages to go, then I start the sequel, Judas Unchained. Great story, one of his best. One of those books that if you skip a page by mistake, you're lost.

[izzybeans]

52. self delete

wrong spot

[fudge stripe cookays]

50. "The Borgia Bride" by Jeanne Kalogridis

A very lush historical fiction about Sancha of Aragon marrying into the Borgia family during the Rennaisance.

When I'm not working my ass off, that is.

fsc

[6000eliot]

51. Two: Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell

and Here, There, and Everywhere by Geoff Emerick. He was an engineer for the Beatles recordings and tells how they got their sound.

[izzybeans]

53. The Invention of modern Science by Isabelle Stengers

and Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley

Science and Fiction; quite a faction.

[TOhioLiberal]

54. Right now 3 books:

Not all at once, obviously...

Not One More Mother's Child, by Cindy Sheehan
The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House, by John F. Harris
State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration, by James Risen

I am in the middle of Cindy's book. After that I'll start Risen's book, followed by (hopefully) a walk down memory lane, with Harris's book.

[reyd reid reed]

55. I'm just starting The Mermaid's Chair,

finishing up Predator and about halfway through Constant Gardner. Teacher Man is waiting in the wings but I have some other stuff to get read first so that's going to have to wait. I'll use that as a reward.

I just have to stay away from B&N for a while.

[babylonsister]

56. Jeffrey Deaver's "The Coffin Dancer". Something light. Heh. nt

[Lydia Leftcoast]

57. The Insight Guide to England (in preparation for travel) and

Wet Grave, a mystery novel that's part of Barbara Hambly's series that takes place among free African-Americans in pre-Civil War New Orleans. I highly recommend this series and suggest that those interested start with the first book, A Free Man of Color, which sets up the main characters and their various ties within the slave, free, French, Spanish, and Anglo communities.

I just finished P.D. James' The Lighthouse, which is about a murder that takes place on a privately-owned island with restricted access. Not one of my favorites, but James is a good enough writer that I can forgive her for just about anything.

[Draill]

58. Just finished Synchronicity

The Bridge Between Matter and Mind by F. David Peat.

I am about to start Depth Psychology and a New Ethic by Erich Neumann. I'm waiting for a couple of books to get here, Aion and Mysterium Coniunctionis by C. G. Jung.

[NMMNG]

59. Temple Grandin writes great stuff

You can not only learn a lot about animals from her, but much about how autistic people think and feel as well.

As for me, I'm reading Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb, and The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris.