What are you reading?

I love the Chronicles of Narnia. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader was always my favorite.

Just finishing "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Friend" by Christopher Moore, a writer who makes Carl Hiassen seem sane and reserved. It is surprisingly good; one of the reviewers says he walks a tightrope, and indeed he does.

After that, I'm going to read "A Man on the Moon," in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

Currently I am reading "Shadow" by K. J. Parker. I like the author a lot so I am trying to read all of his books.

I just finished 'My Sisters Keeper" by Jodi Picoult.Its about a girl who was conceived and born to save her sister who had leukemia.Apparently it is a movie now with Cameron Diaz as the Mother. Excellent book.I actually cried-which is unusual for me when reading...

Julian Comstock by Robert Charles Wilson.  A novel with a future setting, not traditional science fiction.  The earth has regressed in technology after petroleum depletion and ensuing military and religious conflicts.  I enjoyed the read.  The plot is plausible.

Tarzan of the Apes (1912 as a pulp; 1914 as a book) by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

I'm listening to a collection of NPR's "This I Believe" radio program. It collects essays from the program's 50 plus years. One of the highlights is that the vintage essays are introduced by Edward R. Murrow. Plus the foreword is by Studs Terkel, one of my heroes, who passed away last year.

NYPIzzaNut

A lot of NJ-type Roadfood has been mentioned in the previous 14 episodes of this series. My favorite bit was when the herione was low on cash & headed to Costco for a lunch of their free samples.

The Path Between the Seas, by David McCullough (John Adams. 1776), about the building of the Panama Canal. Fascinating, well researched, well written. It starts slow, and takes some time getting sorted out in the beginning, but I'm at the trial of Charles de Lesseps and completely hooked. The financial scandal of the canal attempt in the 1880s brought down the French government.

I'm reading Terry Pratchett's The Thief of Time and listening to an audio book called "Hello, Lied The Agent." It's a non-fiction account of a writer and his attempts to get various shows on the air. I'm really enjoying it so far.

I'm currently reading The Singing Wilderness by Sigurd Olson. It is about a lifetime of observations in the Quetico Superior wilderness now better known as the Boundary Waters Wilderness Canoe Area of Minnesota and Ontario.

Relentless by Dean Koontz...Stop whatever your doing and go buy this book, a REALLY great, fun scary, read!

Hello!

I am reading once again the SF-Novel "Blitzkrieg" (Lightning In The Night), written by Fred Allhoff in the year 1940.

Link: http://www.dassein.de/med...zi-Invasion_in_Amerika

Fascinating, terrifying, extraordinary, if you like this kind of literature...

Michael

Louis


Tarzan of the Apes (1912 as a pulp; 1914 as a book) by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

I loved that book as well as all the Tarzan novels.

WEB Griffin's Latest in his series on the OSS in Argentina, DEATH and HONOR. I got it a couple of days ago, crawled into my chair and did not emerge for about 24 hours and 750+ pages later. I haven't done that for a long time, and it felt GREAT !!

Rain Gods by James Lee Burke - this man's works have turned me into a speed reader - and sadly they're over with much too quickly.

American Rust

I finished two more by Terry Pratchett this weekend, Interesting Times and Night Watch. I liked Night Watch more than Interesting Times, but both were great. If you've ever wondered what happens to a Conan-like barbarian when he gets old, read Interesting Times.

I also read How Did You Do It, Truett, by Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy. It was a freebie and a quick read. Cathy seems like a very nice guy with a great head for business.

I'm reading " Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortensen.  Pretty fascinating book about how this guy got strted building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.  I thnkit came out in 2006 so you may have seen it, but it's a really good read.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" - I had never gotten around to reading it, and I'm really enjoying it.

The Devil You Know - Mike Carey

it is his first novel, he was the guy responsible for writing the Hellblazer and Lucifer comics, if anyone is familiar with those.

I just finished The Anna Papers by Ellen Gilchrist. Written in1988, but I somehow missed it. If you are familiar with her work you will know a lot of the people (Jessie, Phelan, Olivia, all the Hands, Crystal)

I have never been disappointed with any of her writing.

GNeedles59


The Devil You Know - Mike Carey

it is his first novel, he was the guy responsible for writing the Hellblazer and Lucifer comics, if anyone is familiar with those.

I really like Mike Carey. I just read the sequel to The Devil You Know, Vicious Circle. I really liked it, and I loved the Lucifer comics. Not familar with Carey's Hellblazer work, though I'm a big fan of the character's first appearances in Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run.

Niagara


"One Hundred Years of Solitude" - I had never gotten around to reading it, and I'm really enjoying it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my favorite authors and that's one of my favorite books. I'm on the fence: I'd love to see a movie of it someday, but I'm afraid they'd screw up what makes the book so wonderful.
 
I'd also recommended "Love in the Time of Cholera" and "The Autumn of the Patriarch."

Just finished To Kill A Mockingbird.

Finished Terry Pratchett's Hogfather. On Discworld's version of Christmas Eve, Death has to fill in for the world's version of Santa Claus. I loved it.

I've been listening to Tim Dorsey's "Atomic Lobster" on audiobook. I'm really enjoying it so far, but the reader makes one character sound like Ernie from Sesame Street, so that's disconcerting.

Just finished Pat Conroy's The Prince of Tides for the second time in perhaps 20 years - I often like to go back and read certain books that I really enjoyed at the time.  I've got his latest - South of Broad - on the list for the next book store run.
 

Just finished Guilt by Association

by Susan R. Sloan

Very good..  

I really liked Alton Browns TV series "Feasting on Asphalt" (both series) I just got the hardback book version of the River Road Journey and it is great. It really documents his stops on the TV version very well.  Plus I only paid $4.50 for it on ebay.