What Are You Reading

[Harp]

The Life of the Mind by James V. Schall, S.J.; which, in a
moment of madness I purchased full-price at Holy Name Cathedral's
bookstore...gonna IRS deduct this Jebbie as a charitable contribution
somehow....

 

[Amy Jeanne]

I LOVE to read! I'm taking a much-deserved break from watching TCM (I got too many movies as it is!) and catching up on reading my lovely books!

Right now I'm reading Gold Digger: The Outrageous Life and Times of Peggy Hopkins Joyce by Constance Rosenblum. It's okay so far. Peggy didn't seem very interesting :/

Next on my agenda I have:
1927: High Tide of the Twenties by Gerald Leinwand
The Night Club Era by Stanley Walker & Alva Johnston
Center Door Fancy by Joan Blondell
The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber: Weimar Berlin's Priestess of Depravity by Mel Gordon
1929 by Frederick Turner
Please Stand By: A Prehistory of Television by Michael Ritchie
Kay Francis: I Can't Wait to Be Forgotten by Scott O'brien

And that's just this week!! Who knows what great CHEAP books I'll find used on amazon today or tomorrow.

 

[Lancealot]

I just got caught up with a great fantasy series by George R R Martin. TheSong of Ice and FIre it's been a great read and I can't wait for the remainder of novels to come out.

 

[Ruby Slippers]

Today I read most of Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by J. D. Salinger.

Franny and Zooey is one of my all time favorite books, and I adore Salinger's short stories. So far, this book has been incredible. I drew it between in -class drawings! I had a hard time putting it down. I've only got about thirty pages left, thanks to my super long commute. I get a lot of reading time.

 

[Harp]

Today I read most of Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by J. D. Salinger.

Franny and Zooey is one of my all time favorite books, and I adore Salinger's short stories.

Salinger's Catcher in the Rye is good.

 

[Ruby Slippers]

Salinger's Catcher in the Rye is good.

Its a classic! I never give books away because I constantly reread them. When faced with possible eviction (which thankfully didn't happen) I contemplated making a little house out of my books.

 

[Orgetorix]

I'm about halfway through Bernard Cornwell's recent The Pale Horseman, a historical novel about Alfred the Great in 9th-century England. It's not bad.

 

[Harp]

Black's Law by Roy Black, criminal lawyer.

 

[Feraud]

Just started Churchill and War by Geoffrey Best.

 

[Dinerman]

We just got assigned the autobiography of Malcom X

 

[vonwotan]

I just got caught up with a great fantasy series by George R R Martin. TheSong of Ice and FIre it's been a great read and I can't wait for the remainder of novels to come out.

I also very much enjoy reading George R R Martin. Currently however, I am reading The Foreign Correspondent by Susan Carroll. A book set in WWII with a foreign correspondent writing for Reuters by profession and writing for Liberazione and the giellisti. It is one of the first novels I have read that includes Mussolini's OVRA in the plot.

 

[carebear]

S.M. Stirling's "Under the Yoke" and "Guns and Gunning" a book on shooting (duh) from 1936 by Captain Paul A. Curtis.

I love the precision and vocabulary used in some older books, as well as the humor. From a passage anbout accuracy being more important than rate of fire...

"Naturalists all agree that the white tail deer is a highly nervous animal and I endorse this opinion from personal experience, but they are not so nervous that they can be frightened to death. It is impractical to try to kill them through the medium of a box barrage when your rifle holds five cartridges to one loading..."

 

[Emmababy]

I am currently reading the beautiful modern gothic novel Malpertuis by Jean Ray.

 

[JazzBaby]

Today I read most of Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by J. D. Salinger.

Franny and Zooey is one of my all time favorite books, and I adore Salinger's short stories. So far, this book has been incredible. I drew it between in -class drawings! I had a hard time putting it down. I've only got about thirty pages left, thanks to my super long commute. I get a lot of reading time.

I'm afraid to read about Salinger in case it rekindles an old obsesssion

 

[Harp]

Revisiting Philosophies of India by Heinrich Zimmer, edited
by Joseph Campbell.

 

[Haversack]

I've just started Michael Pollan's _Omnivore's Dilemma_. Always fascinated about food and culture. I'm also enjoying Larry Gonick's second volume of his _Cartoon History of the Universe, The Rise of China to the Fall of Rome_. It is good to dive into for those odd 5 - 10 minutes of reading one sometimes has available.

Haversack.

 

[Ruby Slippers]

I've just started Michael Pollan's _Omnivore's Dilemma_. Always fascinated about food and culture. I'm also enjoying Larry Gonick's second volume of his _Cartoon History of the Universe, The Rise of China to the Fall of Rome_. It is good to dive into for those odd 5 - 10 minutes of reading one sometimes has available.

Haversack.

Food and culture! I'm into reading about that as well. Have you read The China Study? I haven't yet but I've heard its a good one. I'm looking to pick it up at some point (my reading list is about 25 pages long, its in there somewhere).

 

[carebear]

Food and culture! I'm into reading about that as well. Have you read The China Study? I haven't yet but I've heard its a good one. I'm looking to pick it up at some point (my reading list is about 25 pages long, its in there somewhere).

Food and culture?

You've then, of course, read "Salt"? "A History of the World in 6 Glasses"?

My next one in the genre is "Cod".

 

[BegintheBeguine]

there's a new one about tea called "Liquid Jade."

 

[Matthew Dalton]

I bought Terry Pratchett's "Mort" yesterday for a Discworld fix. I finished it a few hours ago.