What are you reading right now ?

[Gannon]

I am just about to start "The Black Ice" by Michael Connelly. It is the second book in his Harry Bosch series.

[Maud Fitch]

Been hanging out for this one - "The Woman Who Died A Lot" by Jasper Fforde, the seventh book in the literary lunacy series of Thursday Next.

[bknight47]

I just Finished It Worked For Me by Tony Koltz. It showed me a different side of Colin Powell than the media showed for sure. One cannot be sure, but I believe the reason he never ran for a higher political office, is because he knew the immense toll it would take on his family, and the forces that that rule within. I respect Powell as a man of integrity, and one of the few who was willing to take responsibility when things went wrong on his watch. Kudos to Koltz for a book well written.

[Donnapants]

I decided I wanted to finish up reading The song of Fire and Ice series by George R.R. Martin. About 200 pages into A Storm of Swords. I don't remember why I wanted to take a break from them!

[Gretch84]

I'm about to start the book Room With a View by E. M. Forster. Has anyone here read it?

[Fran]

I'm about to start the book Room With a View by E. M. Forster. Has anyone here read it?

Oh yes .... what a beautiful book.
The movie is absolutely georgous too .... but then it's Italy, so georgous goes without saying!

This morning on commute I started One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn ..... tried Solzhenitsyn years ago and couldn't get into his writing at all, somewhat older now so hopefully I'll have better luck this time.

[louisgeorge]

A Feast for Crows by George R.R Martin...I really recommend the series! The best work of fiction I've ever read!!

[Redlegs]

On the bus coming home tonight I finished James Kelman's 1994 Booker Prize winning "How Late It Was, How Late". This is an absolute gem of a book, so authentic, so amusing and yet sad. Poor Sammy. I absolutely recommend it, as long as you don't mind a bit of language. The whole book is written in a lower class Glaswegian vernacular, so there are plenty of f___ and c___ words. I have just started "Tales from 1001 Nights" (sometimes known as the Arabian Nights) -not the full 1001 stories, but a Penguin selected anthology of Shahrazad's stories. Raunchy from the get go.

[Geneen Karstens]

The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson..a different stoy but very enjoyable so far.

[laci_baby]

Green Angel by Alice Hoffman.
"I once believed that life was a gift. I thought whatever I wanted I would someday possess. Is that greed, or only youth? Is it hope or stupidity? As far as I was concerned the future was a book I could write to suit myself, chapter after chapter of good fortune. All was right with the world, and my place in it was assured, or so I thought then. I had no idea that all stories unfold like white flowers, petal by petal, each in its own time and season." Love it.

And Practical Magic by the same writer.

[dkdai64]

In this moment I am reading Muna Madan written by Nepali poet Luxmi Prasad Devkota. This is very interesting book for me and the story is on true story.

[Maud Fitch]

"Dubliners" by James Joyce.

It's Joyce's only short story collection about early 20th century Dublin life. Fran, any comment on these vignettes?

[awelker]

I've currently reading 4 books.

the Pale King by David Foster Wallace
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
Water for Elephants by Sara Guen
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul

[Bighuey]

Story of Mankind by Hendrik Van Loon. Its a book written for kids, but its an interesting read for adults too. Im to the part about the fall of the Roman Empire and its kind of chilling. The empire went belly-up because of govt. corruption, devaluation of the money, financial institutions failing, threats from foreign terrorists. Sound familiar? I read another one of his books a while back about ancient history and it was very informative.

[pi_r_round]

The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger