What Are You Reading

[Josephine]

I'm reading Agatha Christie's There is a Tide. Again.

 

[VegasMike]

I'm currently bouncing between "My Gun Is Quick" by Mickey Spillane, and "Digging For The Truth" by Josh Berstein of the show with the same name.

 

[kerouacgrl]

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle. (for the second time).

 

[Salv]

I finished the Elvis Cole novels and started on the pile of Hard Case titles, but got waylaid by Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore. Very funny indeed.

 

[Diamondback]

Currently, three volumes of Specialty Press' superlative Warbird Tech Series: the releases on the B-17, B-29 and (not vintage but still one heckuva bird) A-10 Warthog.

Also, Col. Richard Graham's (former CO, 9th Strategic Reconnaisance Wing--"Blackbird Boss") SR-71: Tales, Stories and Legends. Copy personalized to me and autographed yesterday...

 

[Harp]

Jane

My last two before that were A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. These were leather bound and gold edged books I found in a WalMart for 6 dollars each. They had a variety of those books there and I wish I had bought many more.

 

[carter]

Road to Paradise by Max Alan Collins

 

[Harp]

Blue Arabesque, a search for the sublime by Patricia Hampl.

 

[Micawber]

I recently read The Horse in the Furrow first published nearly fifty years ago and concerns the history, use and decline of the Suffolk heavy horse (Suffolk Punch) .

I have just finished re-reading the Norfolk Fowler by Alan Savory published in 1953 which is an account of the authors wildfowling and game shooting exploits from the early 20th Cent., to WWII.

 

[VargasBaby]

Hmm..I've been trying to finish reading "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova. It's a really interesting take on the Dracula genre, but she gets very slow in parts and bouncing back and forth between the three different stories being expressed can cause a headache from time to time.

Overall, I'm liking it. Just makes it a little slower to get through.

Generally overall I tend to red sci-fi/fantasy stuff. The occasional bodice ripper for fluff, too.

 

[Edward]

I finished the Elvis Cole novels and started on the pile of Hard Case titles, but got waylaid by Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore. Very funny indeed.

Superb, isn't it? I got waylaid by it too. I loved that it is so funny, irreverant and yet reverant at the same time. I'd love to know whether the author is religious himself. Kept me guessing right up to the end too whether he was gonig to go with something very unorthodox or not relating to the crucifixtion - I'll not say more here, thinking of those who haven't read it and might.

 

[Salv]

Superb, isn't it? I got waylaid by it too. I loved that it is so funny, irreverant and yet reverant at the same time. I'd love to know whether the author is religious himself. Kept me guessing right up to the end too whether he was gonig to go with something very unorthodox or not relating to the crucifixtion - I'll not say more here, thinking of those who haven't read it and might.

I haven't finished it yet, so I'm grateful that you didn't say any more. I'm at the bit where Josh and Biff are with Gaspar, and Big Furry has just appeared.

 

[plain old dave]

"The Art Of The Deal" by The Donald (Trump).

 

[Harp]

Hmm..
The occasional bodice ripper for fluff, too.

Hmm...

 

[VargasBaby]

Hmm...

What? *innocent blink*

Every now and again a little mindless fluff of romance and a girl being swept off her feet certainly puts a smile on one's face...not to mention a slight blush.

Gotta mix the fun with the thought provoking you know!

 

[Harp]

What? *innocent blink*
Gotta mix the fun with the thought provoking you know!

...I know.

 

[VargasBaby]

...I know.

 

[indycop]

Justed started reading Warriors, on living with courage, discipline, and honor. Edited by Loren W. Christensen.

 

[Harp]

Amos n' Andy by Elizabeth McLeod is on order at the Chicago Public Library, finally.
(Found a sound archive too)

 

[Dominic]

Right now I just finished "Man on the Moon" by Andrew Chaikin. It's the story of the Apollo program. Quite a brick and now I'm about to read it again because it's so damn good.