What are you reading?

[Pens&Lit]

I didn't see any particular thread on this, so I figured why not.

Currently, between stacks of end of the semester essays, I am reading A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin. Was rather slow until about half way through, but now it has really picked up.

Chime on in, please, anyone and everyone. I love hearing about what people are reading; it's one of the best ways for me to get ideas on what to check out next.

[reprieve]

I am currently working my way through the Modern Library edition of The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Next up is E. L. Doctorow's The March.

[BikerBabe]

Anthony Beevor: D-Day.
Aviation Elite Units: Jagdverband 44 - Squadron of Experten.
Konstantin Winkler: Faszination Motorrad.

[fountainpenkid]

Lord of the Flies...again.

[Bogon07]

Stamboul Train - Graham Greene on the train to work

[tiffanyhenschel]

Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth

Fanny by Marcel Pagnol

The Great Gatsby by FS Fitzgerald (rereading with my students)

[Jon Szanto]

Just last night finished up "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles" by Haruki Murakami.

Now I decide whether to start up "London Fields" by Martin Amis, or dive into "A Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Or a little of both...

[Bogon07]

Just last night finished up "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles" by Haruki Murakami.
Bought that last year after hunting down the cover with the cat's tail. I must get around to reading it.

[earthdawn]

NOTHING... and it's annoying me as I need a good book.

I read 11/22/63 ~ Stephen King last year and it was AWESOME! My son is reading it now.

I may pick up NOS4A2 BY JOE HILL

[dowdyism]

I didn't see any particular thread on this, so I figured why not.

Currently, between stacks of end of the semester essays, I am reading A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin. Was rather slow until about half way through, but now it has really picked up.

Chime on in, please, anyone and everyone. I love hearing about what people are reading; it's one of the best ways for me to get ideas on what to check out next.

I'm on A Clash of Kings right now.

[chiaroscuro]

I'm re-reading The Bhagavad Gītā and, to brush up on my Italian, Granta Italia: Lavoro.

[velo]

Erm what I'm not reading but is sitting in a stack beside my bed.

Jerusalem The Biography
Van Gogh: The Life
A Week At The Airport
Wolf Hall

[John the Monkey]

Solzhenitsyn - Cancer Ward (on paper)
Various - The Bicycle Reader II (on Kindle)
Homer - The Iliad (on Kobo)
Wilkie Collins - No Name (on Kobo)

[jor412]

The poetry of our world, edited by Jeffery Paine

[caribbean_skye]

A Feast for Crows - George R.R. Martin
Beautiful Chaos - Kami Garcia
Ever After - Kim Harrison

(There are several others I have my bookmarks in but since I'm not actively reading those I didn't include them).

[matveik]

Pale Fire by Nabokov
Telegraph Avenue by Chabon (this one has been a bit of a slog)

Recently finished Ware's Building Stories and absolutely adored it.

[MarneM]

Right now I'm re-reading the entire Wheel of Time series. I just started, so I should have a bit of fun ahead of me. I'm thinking of taking notes. :P

[Pens&Lit]

matveik: I really liked Pale Fire; what do you think so far?

dowdyism: A Clash of Kings was a good read I thought.

[caleath]

The missing Ink. By Phillip Henesher, oddly enough it's about handwriting.

[matveik]

matveik: I really liked Pale Fire; what do you think so far?

Too early to say! I'll let you know in about a week--I suspect that I'm going to like it quite a bit.

[manoeuver]

Pale Fire is insane. Almost too clever. I love that man, check out Pnin for a look inside Nabokov's personal insecurities, it's awesome.

Now I've got going:
The System of the World, Neal Stephenson
The Black Swan, Nassim Taleb

I love both those authors, they're each easily about 30X smarter than I am.

[Manny]

Right now I'm just tryin to keep up with the "What's Up With FPN?" by Will.
Much more interesting than whatever Honey Boo Boo's doing - that's fer sure!

[Flake]

Perfection Salad by Laura Shapiro
It's about the changes in cooking and women's culture at the turn of the century, so far it's quite interesting!

[sloegin]

I like to read more than one book at a time.

The Illuminatus trilogy
Plutarch's Lives
The Decline of the West
The Beginning of Infinity
The Confessions
Summa Thoelogic
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Imaginary Conversations
Letters to a Young Poet
Sex and Rockets

[Marsilius]

Touches of Sweet Harmony, by S.K. Heninger. A wonderful old book about Pythagorean influences on Elizabethan literature.

[Laura N]

Just last night finished up "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles" by Haruki Murakami.

Now I decide whether to start up "London Fields" by Martin Amis, or dive into "A Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Or a little of both...

I love Murakami, and "Wind-Up Bird" is quite a book.

I'm re-reading Anna Karenina in the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation. It is absolutely fantastic, but at more than 800 pages, it is also a challenge. :)

[Pens&Lit]

Pale Fire is insane. Almost too clever. I love that man, check out Pnin for a look inside Nabokov's personal insecurities, it's awesome.

Now I've got going:
The System of the World, Neal Stephenson
The Black Swan, Nassim Taleb

I love both those authors, they're each easily about 30X smarter than I am.

I will have to check out all three of these. Pnin will have to make my summer reading list now for sure!

[Sketchy]

I just finished enjoying "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky.

Followed quickly by "Call Me Joe" by Poul Anderson where I read in context one of my favorite quotes, "I've yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way didn't become still more complicated."

Now falling into "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman.

[nxn96]

I recently finished "Essays in Biography" by Joseph Epstein and the Everyman's Library edition of Somerset Maugham stories. Right now I'm reading a G. K. Chesterton collection.

[Pens&Lit]

SNIP

Now falling into "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman.

American Gods is a favorite of mine; I've started teaching it in a class on the evolution of fairy tales and mythology.