I’m working through that one, myself. Plus, I’ve got Dickens’ Hard Times waiting in the wings, and I recently finished Saul Bellow’s Ravelstein.
Just finished the Rama Cycle by Arthur C Clarke. Wasn’t that excited about it to start with but I really got into it by the end book and now I’ve run out of them.
Starting " A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemmingway, and “Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan” by John Lloyd Stephens. Then I’ve got a big reference systems textbook. Whee!
nefertari.
Whoever is reading Chuck Palahniuk once you’re finished with “Fight Club” get “Invisible Monsters” if you can. It’s fan-tastic.
The Quran.
Tough but very interesting.
The funny thing is, I've never read the Bible.
And I had never thought I'd read a "Holy Book".I just finished re-reading Tiger Burning Bright by Mercedes Lackey, Andre Norton, and Marion Zimmer Bradley.
I’m currently re-reading Wild Cards II: Aces High, ed. by George RR Martin, the Anita Blake novels by Laurell K. Hamilton, and Sex Signs by Judith Bennett. I’m currently reading for the first time Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause, Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman, Learning the Tarot by Joan Bunning, and Planetary Observations by Sophia - Absolutely positively unendorsed by anyone Famous.
Yeah, I always have a lot going at one time.
BalmainBoy , how is the bio of Eleanor of Acquitaine? I remember looking for one eons ago when I first saw The Lion In Winter and not finding anything I liked. If you recommend the Weir one, I will have to look it up.
Ukelele Ike , I had been thinking of getting a Bryson book as a read aloud book for me and my sweetheart. I have only read excerpts and liked what I read, but now I wonder. Are there any of his books you would recommend over the others? Also, since my sweetie is British and I am American, I thought the ones he has written on the US and Britian might be good, but I would like to hear from someone who has read them. And if, in the spirit of the great SDMB book swap, you would like to get rid of a few…
I just (moments ago, actually) finished Falling Angels by Tracey Chevalier, whose first book was Girl With a Pearl Earring. From what she said, I think I liked it better than Cranky did (she loaned it to me), but I didn’t like it as much as GWAPE. My verdict: not great lit, but a fun read nonetheless. It kept me entertained and distracted, which is not bad.
Having gotten the ones I was missing for Christmas, I am reading (for the first time) the Horatio Hornblower books by C S Forester; I just started Hornblower and the Atropos. My train/work book is 1632 by Eric Flint.
I don’t even want to think about the stacks of books piled up on my “to be read” shelves.