What book are you reading?

Wilds

ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATED SHERLOCK HOLMES 37 Short Stories and a Complete Novel from the Strand Magazine

decides2dream

i am on a voracious reading stint this year...averaging a book a week. i think that even blows away my college days....:D
i just started on monday 100 years of solitude ~ gabriel garcia marquez
finished up love in the time of cholera by him last week......really enjoyed it, his style.....and this new book, feeling the same.....

earlier i finished up all the works by paolo coelho and also anne tyler.
next on my horizon is the master and margarita.

rrivers

Right now reading "Breathers" by S.G. Browne

tybird

decides2dream wrote:

i just started on monday 100 years of solitude ~ gabriel garcia marquez

A book and author mentioned numerous times in the book that I am currently reading. :twisted:

decides2dream

tybird wrote:

decides2dream wrote:

i just started on monday 100 years of solitude ~ gabriel garcia marquez

A book and author mentioned numerous times in the book that I am currently reading. :twisted:

in this....

"Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World" by Peter Chapman

:?:
interesting...i'd not necessarily see the connection there......

tybird

decides2dream wrote:

tybird wrote:

decides2dream wrote:

i just started on monday 100 years of solitude ~ gabriel garcia marquez

A book and author mentioned numerous times in the book that I am currently reading. :twisted:

in this....

"Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World" by Peter Chapman

:?:
interesting...i'd not necessarily see the connection there......

That's the one...from my book's listing of characters, "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Nobel-Prize winning author, born in the company's (United Fruit) Colombian banana zone near the time of the 1928 Santa Marta Massacre."

soulsinging

decides2dream wrote:

i am on a voracious reading stint this year...averaging a book a week. i think that even blows away my college days....:D
i just started on monday 100 years of solitude ~ gabriel garcia marquez
finished up love in the time of cholera by him last week......really enjoyed it, his style.....and this new book, feeling the same.....

earlier i finished up all the works by paolo coelho and also anne tyler.
next on my horizon is the master and margarita.

Marquez is incredible. Both of those books are excellent. I read Master and the Margarita years ago and really enjoyed it at the time, though I can't remember anything about it now, hehe.

I just finished what might be my new all-time fav book (displacing Catch-22). It's 'Brothers K' by David James Duncan. About family, baseball, Vietnam, religion, politics, the counterculture... it's got everything!

Now I'm on to something a bit lighter: Agatha Christie's 'And Then There Were None' (formerly Ten Little Indians, which I guess is a little un-pc now).

decides2dream

tybird wrote:

That's the one...from my book's listing of characters, "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Nobel-Prize winning author, born in the company's (United Fruit) Colombian banana zone near the time of the 1928 Santa Marta Massacre."

hahahahaha...what a tie-in!

soulsinging wrote:

Marquez is incredible. Both of those books are excellent. I read Master and the Margarita years ago and really enjoyed it at the time, though I can't remember anything about it now, hehe.

I just finished what might be my new all-time fav book (displacing Catch-22). It's 'Brothers K' by David James Duncan. About family, baseball, Vietnam, religion, politics, the counterculture... it's got everything!

Now I'm on to something a bit lighter: Agatha Christie's 'And Then There Were None' (formerly Ten Little Indians, which I guess is a little un-pc now).

i've always heard such....bought love in the time of cholera ages ago, and then i went and saw the movie with javier bardem before reading....bad idea. thus i held off reading until i could 'forget' the movie enough. glad i did. a colleague of mine has recommended his newest work, said it's a slim book but a great read.....but i cannot remember the title at the moment. :oops:


and it's funny, i used to only read the *classics* and such, only got into contemporary writers say in the past 10 years or so....and yet still there are sooooooooo MANY 'classics' i've yet to read too. so many books, so little time!

soulsinging

decides2dream wrote:

tybird wrote:

That's the one...from my book's listing of characters, "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Nobel-Prize winning author, born in the company's (United Fruit) Colombian banana zone near the time of the 1928 Santa Marta Massacre."

hahahahaha...what a tie-in!

soulsinging wrote:

Marquez is incredible. Both of those books are excellent. I read Master and the Margarita years ago and really enjoyed it at the time, though I can't remember anything about it now, hehe.

I just finished what might be my new all-time fav book (displacing Catch-22). It's 'Brothers K' by David James Duncan. About family, baseball, Vietnam, religion, politics, the counterculture... it's got everything!

Now I'm on to something a bit lighter: Agatha Christie's 'And Then There Were None' (formerly Ten Little Indians, which I guess is a little un-pc now).

i've always heard such....bought love in the time of cholera ages ago, and then i went and saw the movie with javier bardem before reading....bad idea. thus i held off reading until i could 'forget' the movie enough. glad i did. a colleague of mine has recommended his newest work, said it's a slim book but a great read.....but i cannot remember the title at the moment. :oops:


and it's funny, i used to only read the *classics* and such, only got into contemporary writers say in the past 10 years or so....and yet still there are sooooooooo MANY 'classics' i've yet to read too. so many books, so little time!

Yeah, I work harder on breaks and vacations than I did in school to "catch up" on books I bought but hadn't read yet I have ambitious syllabi. I read enough of the classics in school to not feel much interest in them anymore. Truth be told, most of my reading anymore is pretty light... lots of hard-boiled detective novels and a healthy dose of fantasy. I read for escape mostly now. After the uber-reality of legal reading, I want something as undemanding escapist as possible!

Ms. Haiku

When Smoke Ran Like Water by Devra Davis

Arcticangel

Just finished "When the Air Hits Your Brain" by Frank Vertosick. It's a really interesting and moving memoir about the author's residency in neurosurgery.

Next on the list is "The Hot Zone"

Yes. I am a total dork.

soulsinging

Arcticangel wrote:

Just finished "When the Air Hits Your Brain" by Frank Vertosick. It's a really interesting and moving memoir about the author's residency in neurosurgery.

Next on the list is "The Hot Zone"

Yes. I am a total dork.

By Preston? The one about ebola? It scared the crap out of me as a kid!

I finished my Agath Christie, great, classic little whodunit on an isolated island. Fun way to spend the afternoon. Now I'm reading 'Already Dead' by Charlie Huston. It's supposed to be a kind of vampire/detective noir novel. I've heard good things.

Arcticangel

soulsinging wrote:

Arcticangel wrote:

Just finished "When the Air Hits Your Brain" by Frank Vertosick. It's a really interesting and moving memoir about the author's residency in neurosurgery.

Next on the list is "The Hot Zone"

Yes. I am a total dork.

By Preston? The one about ebola? It scared the crap out of me as a kid!

Yep! I had to read "Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them" for my infectious disease ecology class last semester.
:shock:
So..um.. yeah it'll still probably give me nightmares.
I had to read excerpts for other classes... the guy on the plane...OMG.

tybird

"Bran Mak Morn, The Last King" by Robert E. Howard....like Soulsinging, I am mixing in a bunch of fun reading with the hard stuff....and hitting the classics.

decides2dream

i still have kept up with, overall, my book a week this year. incredible. i just finished up the master and margarita today...amazing! i also managed to start and finish, today, the year of magical thinking ~ joan didion.....sooo poignant and touching, well written!

Enkidu

There was a thread on here about non-fiction books to read... Tybird recommended (among others) "King Leopold's Ghost" and "The Scramble for Africa." They are both amazing, not exactly easy reading, but really really good.

mfc2006

Four Past Midnight--Stephen King

i haven't read these novelas in quite some time. good reading!

soulsinging

A Feast for Crows- George RR Martin... it's a big one, but then I'm caught up on the series.

also reading:

The barbri Multistate Testing Practice Questions, volume 1 :(

Byrnzie

Enkidu wrote:

There was a thread on here about non-fiction books to read... Tybird recommended (among others) "King Leopold's Ghost" and "The Scramble for Africa." They are both amazing, not exactly easy reading, but really really good.

I've had my eye on that King Leopolds Ghost book. I may get myself a copy soon.

Byrnzie

I'm reading two books at the moment: 'The Letters of Vincent van Gogh', and 'Selected Poems of Li Po and Tu Fu'.