Simple enough.
Last book I read: Barry Glassner - The Culture of Fear
The book I’m currently reading: William Gibson - Count Zero
Next book: Michael Pollan - The Botany of Desire
Did you like The Culture of Fear?
I am currently reading The Reader and Spells of Enchantment.
Previous book: Five Red Herrings
Next book: dunno. I kind of want to read Free Food for Millionaires just to see if it’s as bad as they say it is.
Loved it. I think it and Fast Food Nation are must-reads for every resident of these United States and anyone else who wants to understand how we live.
Last: Practicing: A Musician’s Return to Music by Glenn Kurtz
Current: The Inner Game of Music by Barry Green and Tim Gallway
Next: Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
Yeah, I ordered 'em all off Amazon.com in the same week. I’m going to music school in my 40s and figured it couldn’t hurt.
Last book I read: Vince Flynn’s “Protect and Defend” (not the best of his stuff sadly)
Currently reading: “A Killing Frost” by Michael A Black (so far it sucks ass btw)
Next on the list: God knows. Hopefully I can find something worth reading.
Not nearly as sophisticated…
Last read: Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
Currently reading: Exit Strategy by Kelly Armstrong
Next read: Probably The Sons of Heaven by Kage Baker (But might not. It’s the last of The Compay series and I’ve been waffling because I don’t want it to end.)
I’d love to hear what you think of Musicophilia!
Last book: The Miserable Mill
Current book: The Austere Academy
Next book: The Ersatz Elevator
I gots me a little project goin’.
Last Book: The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
Current Book: No End in Sight: Iraq’s Descent into Chaos by Charles Ferguson
Next Book: The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker
I’m not often reading only one book at a time, so this is picking a few out of the just finished, currently reading, and to be read piles:
Just read: Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning
Currently (re)reading: Saxons Vikings And Celts by Bryan Sykes
Next up: What Are You Optimistic About?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better by John Brockman
Last: Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge
Current: The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
Next: probably the new Michael Chabon
Last: *A Pirate Looks at Fifty * by Jimmy Buffet
Current: Cool It by Bjorn Lomborg
Next: *The Mass of the Early Christians * by Mike Aquilina
Last: The Sunrise Lands by S. M. Stirling
Current: Long May She Reign by Ellen Emerson White
Next: I don’t know. Possibly re-reading an old favorite.
Last: In the Shadow of the Ark by Ann Provoost
Current: Birth by Tiny Cassidy
Next: several hundred pages of gibberish by James Joyce… or whatever book someone leaves laying around that looks sufficiently interesting.
Last: Up Country, by Nelson DeMille - excellent thriller.
Current: The Good Husband of Zebra Drive, by Alexander McCall Smith. The latest ‘Ladies #1 Detective’ book and, so far, better than the previous two.
Just in at the library, so will be next: Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson. Another Vietnam novel.
Last: Fun Home by Alison Bechdel.
Current:Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
Next: The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon.
Last book: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Current book: The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer
Next Book: A Pirate Looks at Fifty by Jimmy Buffet (now that Rhiannon8404 has finished it)
Last book: Social Lives of Medicines
Current book: Eat, Pray, Love
Next book: Probably The Glass Castle
I have to ask, is either of those is a first time for you? If so, you are one lucky bastid.
Last: Haruki Murakami’s After Dark
Current (almost finished): Andrea Barrett’s The Air We Breathe
Next: Charles Frazier’s Thirteen Moons
Okay, could people post a little bit about the books they’re reading? Yeah, I didn’t do that either in my post, so I’ll do it now.
Five Red Herrings: eh, was okay. Involved a lot of old British painters, not the most exciting bunch.
The Reader: is a short and fast read, but has some interesting parts. Would recommend.
Spells of Enchantment: a must for any fairytale lover.