FallenAngel, the Fagles translation is quite good - nice to read and keeps some rhyming and flow.
It has been on my “I-ought-to-read-that-sometime” list for a while, as I have heard very good things about it…
One day 
Grim
Just finished The Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little Things by Hannah Holmes. (I’m on a non-fiction kick right now.) An interesting book; I read bits of it aloud to my six year old and now he doesn’t want to lay on the carpet. Full of amazing stuff and potentially disturbing; fortunately, I don’t remember this sort of thing long.
Bedroom - **So Long and Thanks for All the Fish ** - Douglas Adams
Living room - The Oddyssey - Homer (you’re not alone FallenAngel!) But I’ve kind of fallen off on that one…
Bathroom - The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
Next will be Franken’s book.
Duh, Odyssey only has ONE “D”
I’ve been going through everything by Simon Winchester. Just finished Krakatoa, and am halfway through his book on British Nobility, and have a reserve at the library for his most recent on the OED.
At my wife’s recommendation, last night I began Ann Patchett’s bel canto. Beautifully written and fascinating. I highly recommend it.
Next up on my night stand is The Pencil, a study of industrial design. Can’t wait to see how he fills so many pages about a simple bit of graphite and wood! And a thin volume of the physics involved in golf…
I read that this summer. It was a great story. I hope you enjoy it.
Currently working on:
Why Things Bite Back: Technology And The Revenge Of Unintended Consequences - Edward Tenner. As you can tell from the subtitle, it deals with topics like antibiotic-resistant bacteria, earthquake proofing and other elements of modern society that may have improved life in one respect, but are causing problems in other situations.
The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste - Jane & Michael Stern
If you like kitsch - this is the book for you! Lots of pictures and 1-4 pages on Liberace, fake fur, boudoir photography and more!
Girl With a Pearl Necklace - Tracy Chevalier
Historical fiction - told by a girl who goes to work for Vermeer as a maid. Am just about a chapter in and I’m hooked!
Mein Kempf
Just started Clan of the Cave Bear yesterday.
I just finished A Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks. I’ll be looking for something to start today.
Just finished up Wyrd Sisters and The Truth by Terry Prachett, as well as The File on the Tsar: The Fate of the Romanovs- Dramatic New Evidence. (fairly old book, belongs to my hubby, was published in 1976).
Not sure what I want to read next, out of new books at home…a trip to B&N might be in order.
Just finished Choke and Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk.
My current commuting book is A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani
Sitting on my bedstand are Night Movements (manual for nighttime warfare) and Wilderness Survival, the authors of which I can’t remember right now.
Just finished Doug Adam’s Last Chance to See. I enjoyed it very much, but now I’ve read all his books.
Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwall. It’s like John Grisham set in 19th-century London.
She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan. An amazingly insightful and intriguing memoir about a man who becomes a woman.
I just finished reading I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block (author of the Weetzie Bat books…my favorite author by the way.)
Other interesting books I’ve read lately include Candy by Mian Mian, a novel about heroin, sex, and other great topics in modern China, and Visible Amazement, by Gale Zoe Garnet (I think that’s her name, sorry if I’m wrong), which I read a few years ago and forgot the name of and finally now found again. That book deals with teenage runaways, a french dwarf living in the woods, and other fun things.
I read this one 2 years ago but let me also reccommend Just Like Beauty, a novel set sometime in the future where teenage beauty queen contestants must perform really scary, freaky rituals in competition.
I am currently reading Adoption healing not sure who wrote it. I am looking forward to getting Mitch’s new book this weekend…ya know about he 5 people you meet in heaven.
A good book, especially for someone like me who really doesn’t read fiction.
Reading it was an emotional experience for me. I read the 1st half on a flight out to Denver about a week ago, reflected a little, posted a thread about it in MPSIMS and finished it on the flight back a couple days ago.
The only reason I can come up for why the book forced me to inner-reflect and why it caused me to well up a few times (in public-on a flight no less) is probably due to the fact I’ve never really had to face death before - and I ended up equating the experiences of the literary characters to myself and others I know.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
I said I would wait for the paperback. I lied. Hehehe
I’m about halfway through it.