Last: The Nanny Diaries (shut up)
Current: Wicked
Next: Saving Fish from Drowning
Last: Vaccine by Arthur Allen - I thought it was well-done and interesting.
Now: Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer - Liking it so far, and am tempted to purchase a copy (I mostly borrow from the library) because it has some things I’d like to refer back to.
Next: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - Loved Kite Runner, and so I’m looking forward to it.
Is The Forsyte Saga the same that was made into the Masterpiece Theater production? I really liked that one and considered reading the book. Any good?
Edited to add…
Last Book: English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
Current book : Same- I’m re-reading it already- its that good!! before I lend it to my dad.
Next Book: Dearly Devoted Dexter (if I get a Borders gift card for my b-day 
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Last:
Rage by Stephen King. Complete and utter crap. The only reason I finished it was because I thought it couldn’t possibly get worse. I should have remembered that even though it was a Bachman book, it was still Stephen King.
Current:
The Sunrise Lands by S.M. Stirling. Not bad so far, but every time jump in the series leaves more and more of my favorite characters out of the loop.
Next:
The Year of Living Bibically by A.J. Jacobs. The Know-It-All was great, I have high hopes.
Last: Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless by Robert Musil
Current: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll
Next: The Dark Tower series by Steven King
Last: William Gibson - Spook Country
Current: Grad school hinders reading for fun.
Next: Hmm., perhaps Neil Gaiman - Stardust. Or Dune.
Last: Flashman, by George MacDonald Fraser. It was pretty good - I’ll look for more of these. And I’m going to have to read up on the history of the British in Afghanistan.
Current: Have His Carcase, Dorothy Sayers. I like this series, but to me, the murder mystery sometimes gets in the way of the story I want to read, about Lord Peter and his friends and family. It’s like watching the TV show House; usually I just want to see interaction between House and Cuddy and Wilson, and never mind about the patient of the week. HazelNutCoffee, Five Red Herrings has been my least favorite so far. Too much dry, boring whodunnit, and not enough Peter and Co.
Next: Don’t know yet. I was restless this weekend and started a couple of different books, but I couldn’t get into them. So I picked up some favorites and re-read sections of them. When I’m in a better mood I’ll go back and try the ones I put down again.
Last: The Last Pharoah
Current: The Book of Malicon
Next: sequel to “The Book of Malicon.”
Oh, you mean books I’m reading.
Last: Mark Twain’s Letter from Hawaii
Current: The Annotated Huckleberry Finn (and the second of the Series of Unfortunate Events book, at my daughter’s insistence)
Next:Not sure. Just ordered The Brothers Kip, a Jules Verne novel published in 1902 but just translated into English for the first time this year.
I hope you’re listening to the audio versions read by Tim Curry. The kids and I loved those books, but I think half of it was because of his performance.
Last: Raising a self-disciplined child: help your child become more responsible, confident, and resilient, by Robert Brooks
Current: Not That You Asked: rants, exploits, and obsessions, by Steve Almond. This is a book of short humorous essays. I’ve just begun to nibble this and haven’t decided yet whether to gobble it or spit it out.
Next: Tales from the Teacher’s Lounge: what I learned in school the second time around-- one man’s irreverent look at being a teacher, by Robert Wilder.
Last: Reread Thrones, Dominations by Dorothy L Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh . Enjoyable follow on from **Busman’s Honeymoon ** - definitely plenty about Peter and Harriet to divert **Eleanor of Aquitaine ** from the “Who dunnit?”. (Note - don’t bother with Jill Paton Walsh’s other Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane book A Presumption of Death, it was rubbish.)
Current: Armageddon by Max Hastings. Brilliant history of the end of the war in Europe and the fall of Nazi Germany.
Next: Probably **Rubicon by Tom Holland ** (history of the fall of the Roman Republic) but might go for a fiction book instead. Arms are tired holding up massive history tomes - however readable.
Justin_Bailey: Hope you enjoy The Sunrise Lands. One thing to bare in mind is that it is very much the first part of a four part series and significantly less self contained than the three volumes of the **Dies the Fire ** series (which I thought were brilliant). I’m now wondering if I can wait until all four parts are published before reading any further :dubious:
Forgot one. Current audiobook is My Antonia, by Willa Cather, read by George Guidall. It’s too soon for me to form any opinion, but I do love George’s voice.
I did that too. First the book book, then the audio book, which was brilliantly done. IIRC, there was a different reader for each of the 20 voices and the Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley guy was absolutely perfect.
Beware the more recent abridged one.
Last Book: *I Am America (and so can you!) *
Currrent Book: The Illuminatus Trilogy
Next Book: Probably Making Money by Pratchett.
Last Book: Perfect Strangers (Danielle Steel)
Current Book: Pastime (Robert Parker)
Next Book: * Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, Revised Edition* (James H. Jones)
Oh yes.
I’ve had the book for a few years. The first time I tried it, my anti-upper-middle-class bias got the best of me and I didn’t get very far. But after reading New Grub Street, I didn’t want to leave the late 19th century, and Forsyte was the only book at hand. And after Grub, I wanted to see that time period from another point of view, spend time with people who weren’t struggling just to survive.
I expected lots of detail and excellent characterization and I’m getting that, but Galsworthy also knows how to turn a phrase. Some of the prose is absolutely poetic.
When I pick up the book, it’s not to read, it’s to spend time with the Forsytes. I’m already sorry that it has to end.
Prior Book: *Earth, Air, Fire and Custard * -Tom Holt. Funny real-life meets Fantasy book. If you like Pratchett…give him a try.
Current: Cruel Wind -Glen Cook. It’s an omnibus collection of his earliest work, I think. It’s pretty darn good. I’m glad I found another fantasy author I can read.
Next: I think *The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and ID * -Johnathan Wells. I like to see how the other half “thinks”.
-Cem
Last fiction: King Rat by China Mieville.
Last nonfiction: The Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain.
Current fiction: The Scar by China Mieville. Almost done.
Current nonfiction: The Roman Near East by Fergus Millar. Almost done.
Next fiction: Dunno. Maybe John Varley’s Red Lightning, but I’ve avoiding that one for awhile, so I might continue to do so.
Next nonfiction: China Marches West:* The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia* by Peter C. Perdue. I’ve read the intro on this one - looks good.
Yes on both. K&C has been on my “get around to it” list for a while, and I’m extremely late to the party on Pratchett (but catching up).
Did you like After Dark? Have you read any other Murakami. If so which ones. I love Murakami particularly Kafka on the Shore but some of his books such as Hard Boiled Wonderland are just kinda blah blah blah blah. I’d be interested to hear what you thought.