What Are You Reading

[DNO]

Both books are important and worthwhile additions to anyone's bookshelf; they're not just for those who like graphic novels. In fact, I think Spiegelman received a Pulitzer for them.

Both Maus books are well worth buying and well worth reading. Graphic novels have never really appealed to me but the Maus books are the exception.

 

[AmateisGal]

David - Oh, man. The CMS is a beast, especially when they change the rules! It's made worse when I have to use AP style at my job and in some of my freelance writing for magazines.

I'll definitely have to check out the Maus books. Thanks for the review!

 

[Story]

This interview was originally broadcast on Sept. 26, 2012.

After the global financial crisis hit in 2008, Pulitzer Prize winner J.R. Moehringer was so angry at banks, he says, he decided to write about the people who rob them — in the form of fiction, since he's not an economist. "I thought it would be healthy to live vicariously through a bank robber at that moment that bankers were ruining the world," Moehringer tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. In his first historical novel, Sutton, Moehringer writes from the point of view of Willie Sutton, whom he calls the "greatest American bank robber."

http://www.npr.org/2012/10/30/163947259/sutton-americas-1920s-bank-robbing-robin-hood

 

[Tomasso]

 

[PADDY]

Eleven kinds of Loneliness - Richard Yates

 

[1961MJS]

Hi

I'm reading a biography of Senator McCarthy. He was a driven man, but where to and why are kind of up for discussion. I'm to the part where he won his election as Senator from Wisconsin.

Later

 

[Miss Golightly]

Thank Heaven...by Leslie Caron

 

[LocktownDog]

In The Garden Of Beasts
- Erik Larson

 

[Miss Golightly]

Dangerous Curves atop Hollywood Heels: The Lives, Careers, and Misfortunes of 14 Hard-Luck Girls of the Silent Screen by Michael G. Ankerich

 

[Feraud]

I'm currently reading Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean. A well written bio of movie star Rin Tin Tin and his owner Lee Duncan. Rinty was found in a litter of 5 on a WWI battlefield. Duncan saved those pups and they gave him a purpose. An enjoyable read.

 

[Touchofevil]

World War Z by Max Brooks.

 

[SHOWSOMECLASS]

Trying to read the Bible (NWT) daily. James is my favorite book.

 

[Derek Cavin]

Three for the Money - Luke Short. Western. Its funny to see in the book that the men wear stetsons (not capitalized). Used book published and printed in 1970, cover price $.60.

 

[Kirk H.]

Just got through reading GANGSTER SQUAD. It is the book that the new movie is based on. It is a very good read if you are interested in that time period of LA from the late 1940's through the early 1960's.

Kirk H.

 

[Tomasso]

 

[Feraud]

World War Z by Max Brooks.

Even with the great reviews I hesitated reading this. I didn't think zombie lit would be up my alley. World War Z was a fantastic read!
It's a shame the upcoming movie looks absolutely horrible..

 

[fashion frank]

Started reading a book about Mary Astor star of silent screen and "talkie's", she is talking about how exciting it was to be kissed by Douglas Fairbanks ,very interesting .

All the Best , Fashion Frank

 

[Touchofevil]

Even with the great reviews I hesitated reading this. I didn't think zombie lit would be up my alley. World War Z was a fantastic read!
It's a shame the upcoming movie looks absolutely horrible..

I too never thought that I would be in to the zombie genre, but I have found that I enjoy this vein of appocalyptic reading much more than I would have thought. I was introduced to this world when I stumbled upon Dave Wellington's zombie trilogy which led me to authors J.L. Bourne, Jonathan Stowers, Max Brooks and a few others.

 

[davidraphael]

Two graphic novels:

"Alice in Sunderland"
A historical account of 19th C Sunderland and Lewis Carroll's time spent there, with a lot of (almost overwhelmingly so) diverse cultural and historical information. It was been called "the greatest graphic novel ever written"

"Marvel 1602"
The Marvel universe transposed to the (historically accurate) Elizabethan period.

 

[Derek Cavin]

Homeland - book one of the Dark Elf Trilogy.