What book are you reading?

rgambs

SD48277 said:

brianlux said:

Cliffy6745 said:

brianlux said:

Just finished Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson.  Great writing and fascinating history but one of the most tragic tales I've ever read. 

Really enjoyed this book. Erik Larson has quickly become one of my favorites.  The HH Holmes Chicago World's Fair book is one of my favorites.

I'm liking his stuff a lot too!  I went right from this one to this:

which was excellent though I liked Dead Wake better.

Now am reading this fine book:

^^Another great book from Patti Smith. Brian, have you read Just Kids?

Presently reading: Sleeping Beauties, by Stephen and Owen King.

Did Sleeping Beauties end well?  I put it down and the big break in the middle and never picked it back up.

rgambs

Pap said:

This was a good trilogy, vampires are usually a big NOPE for me, but these beasts were fun.
And I really like the sound of the phrase, "take one/it on the blade"

rgambs

I just read 5 of Jeff Shaara's war books.  Two on the Civil War, two on WW2, and 1 on WW1.
Fascinating and morbid.
I've always been strangely drawn to the morbid, which is a bit weird because I'm not morose or introverted at all, I'm a happy go lucky extrovert.

rgambs

F Me In The Brain said:

The Craftsman kinda farted out but I still enjoyed the book, overall.

Picked this up last night:

That looks right up my alley!

xavier mcdaniel

Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons

Cliffy6745

This book is so damn good. You can learn a lot about the world, things that were never available, through what people type intonhe search bar and internet behavior in general 

xavier mcdaniel

I am almost done with 

The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball's Golden Age 

 

mpedone

"The Lives of Tao" was pretty good, though I thought the pacing was a little rushed towards the end. I'll probably move on to the rest of the series eventually, but I'm in no rush.

Current reads:

"The Calculating Stars" by Mary Robinette Kowal

An alternate history of the space program. I'm only a few chapters in, but I'm enjoying it. I love that she let's you know right off the bat that it's an alternate history by starting the first chapter with a news clipping from 1952 that starts with the words, "President Dewey".

and "Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture" by Ytasha Womack

An interesting and enlightening read that has definitely added some music to my playlists and some books to my TBR pile.

eddiec

One of the best books I've ever read.

riotgrl

Ms. Haiku

I'm reading Circe by Madeline Miller.

dankind

dankind

Fifthelement

Just finished On the Come Up by Angie Thomas.  Loved both it and The Hate U Give.  Her work is beautiful written.



Now on to reading the graphic novel Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman.

F Me In The Brain

Book 3 / Kingsbridge
Not as good as the others, but still good

ConorKavanagh

Everybody Loves Our Town by Mark Yarm
I spent a few hours hanging out with him in Ireland some years back, and he signed my copy. I figured I had better read the whole thing, since he urged me to read it properly in his inscription.

Pap

ConorKavanagh said: Everybody Loves Our Town by Mark Yarm

Great book!

Ms. Haiku

First book of the Guido Brunetti series by Donna Leon - Death at La Fenice 

Malroth

In 1944, there was a pow camp in michigan. (several more were scattered through the states, but this book is in michigan)

Enkidu

Two great books.  

brianlux

One chapter into this one and already just blown away.  A great book about our U.S. National Parks written by a woman who is a national treasure.

Ms. Haiku

Harry Potter #7! Almost done with the series, yay! Great series.

brianlux

Ms. Haiku said:

Harry Potter #7! Almost done with the series, yay! Great series.

A friend of mine keep pushing HP books on me.  I politely said I would try to get to them but to myself thought, "I never read that kind on nonsense."  I also thought about Henry Rollins' bit about meeting and dating a woman.  They were driving to a coffee shop when she mentioned that she like to read and, being a book fan himself, said, "Great!  What are your reading?"  She replied, "Harry Potter".  He said, "WHAT? You read children's literature? GET OUT OF THE CAR!"  LOL

Well, finally I gave in anyway and read the first one.  OK, that was easy and quick so I went on to number two.  And three.  And all the way to the end.  Love them! 

Sorry Henry!

DarthMaeglin

Just finished the Frank Miller Dark Knight series:  The Last Crusade, The Dark Knight Returns, The Dark Knight Strikes Again and The Master Race.  The rest are enjoyable, but the original (Returns) is still a classic. For comics, lol.

eddiec

brianlux said:

Ms. Haiku said:

Harry Potter #7! Almost done with the series, yay! Great series.

A friend of mine keep pushing HP books on me.  I politely said I would try to get to them but to myself thought, "I never read that kind on nonsense."  I also thought about Henry Rollins' bit about meeting and dating a woman.  They were driving to a coffee shop when she mentioned that she like to read and, being a book fan himself, said, "Great!  What are your reading?"  She replied, "Harry Potter".  He said, "WHAT? You read children's literature? GET OUT OF THE CAR!"  LOL

Well, finally I gave in anyway and read the first one.  OK, that was easy and quick so I went on to number two.  And three.  And all the way to the end.  Love them! 

Sorry Henry!

I was living in Madrid in 2004, and I had an English roommate who had a copy of 'The Philosopher's Stone'. I think they named it 'Sorcerer's Stone' in America. He kept telling me how great it was. Like you, Brian, I was like, I'm not reading children's lit.
He eventually moved out and left it for me. So one night I picked it up and stayed awake reading the whole thing. I ran to the English bookshop in the morning and picked up the second book. 
J.K. Rowling is an amazing storyteller. It's unbelievable she was rejected twelve times before somebody picked her up.

riotgrl

vogonpoetbythelake

Antigone Undone and the Art of Resistance
 by Will Aitken

Not for people who can resist being shattered...Laurie Anderson

brianlux

eddiec said:

brianlux said:

Ms. Haiku said:

Harry Potter #7! Almost done with the series, yay! Great series.

A friend of mine keep pushing HP books on me.  I politely said I would try to get to them but to myself thought, "I never read that kind on nonsense."  I also thought about Henry Rollins' bit about meeting and dating a woman.  They were driving to a coffee shop when she mentioned that she like to read and, being a book fan himself, said, "Great!  What are your reading?"  She replied, "Harry Potter".  He said, "WHAT? You read children's literature? GET OUT OF THE CAR!"  LOL

Well, finally I gave in anyway and read the first one.  OK, that was easy and quick so I went on to number two.  And three.  And all the way to the end.  Love them! 

Sorry Henry!

I was living in Madrid in 2004, and I had an English roommate who had a copy of 'The Philosopher's Stone'. I think they named it 'Sorcerer's Stone' in America. He kept telling me how great it was. Like you, Brian, I was like, I'm not reading children's lit.
He eventually moved out and left it for me. So one night I picked it up and stayed awake reading the whole thing. I ran to the English bookshop in the morning and picked up the second book. 
J.K. Rowling is an amazing storyteller. It's unbelievable she was rejected twelve times before somebody picked her up.

Definitely!  Very imaginative and a big draw is her characters- great character development and they are interesting!

brianlux

Having been born here in the U.S. west, as a kid I was a typical Cowboys and Indians fan.  But as I grew up I distanced myself from all that to the point of really not caring about or being interested in western American history which I still think is basically about a bunch of restless white people- mostly men- who would run over, push away, assimilate, or if need be kill, anything and anyone that got in the way of their greedy expansion. 

But, being a fan of adventure, I started reading Ethan Rarick's Desperate Passage; The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West. The true-story telling in this is great and I'm even finding myself interested in the history and maybe even able to feel a little bit why people  might have that urge to seek out something new.  I've started my life over a number of times, so there you go.  Great reading so far.

F Me In The Brain

Read this on the plane yesterday.  Tried a few previous times to start buy finally got into it.
Overrated based on reviews but not bad absent those expectations.