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[uncageg]

Posted: 10/5/10 at 7:07pm

I bailed on the Jimmy Carter book. It needed trimming down. Some things he could have left out although the entry about Roslyn coming into the Oval office in a "frisky mood" was amusing.

I am now in the middle of Bob Woodwards "Obama's Wars".

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 10/5/10 at 9:11pm

"The Love Machine" by Jacqueline Susann, followed by "Once Is Not Enough."

Perfect bedtime reading.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 10/5/10 at 9:13pm

I love Jacqueline Susann.

I just finished a cute cheesy little book called "The ex-Mrs. Hedgefund" by Jill Kargman.

Getting ready to start The Corrections.

[Plum]

Posted: 10/6/10 at 10:38am

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in Hebrew.
Updated On: 10/6/10 at 10:38 AM

[uncageg]

Posted: 10/6/10 at 9:54pm

Updated On: 10/9/10 at 09:54 PM

[Roscoe]

Posted: 10/7/10 at 10:38am

Finished Franzen's FREEDOM, and find it easy to not think about, as time passes and the hoopla dies down. Some good writing, admittedly, and I can't deny that I was identifying with those characters, but it just felt too narrated, somehow. Too many things were being described and only described, in a "he felt that he was no longer the same person" kind of way, without going into too much more detail than that. It kept me at a distance, which is fine, but too much distance can lead to me just shrugging off the whole thing.

I've been reading Rafi Zabor's THE BEAR COMES HOME, and have been enjoying it far more than I ever enjoyed FREEDOM.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 10/7/10 at 11:24am

[Plum]

Posted: 10/7/10 at 10:57pm

Rucka! There's another rare thing we agree on, Spidey.

And yeah, Sorcerer's Stone definitely...feels different in Hebrew. It actually makes it easier for me to hear the characters as little kids for some reason - maybe because I was a kid when I left the country so my linguistic development sort of froze there. :)
Updated On: 10/21/10 at 10:57 PM

[BroadwayGuy12]

Posted: 10/8/10 at 11:28am

Plum, Convergence Culture was for an Approaches to Media Studies class. That was probably my favorite one that we read, though I also was interested in Remediation by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin.

In the fiction department, I finished This is Where I Leave You last week and thoroughly enjoyed it; I'm definitely adding Tropper to my list of authors to keep reading. Now I'm about 90 pages into Robert Goolrick's A Reliable Wife. It's not terribly exciting so far, but I'm willing to stick it out in hopes it will get better.
Updated On: 10/8/10 at 11:28 AM

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/8/10 at 5:19pm

I just started The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt. Sort of a Dickensian backdrop with some of the standard characters, but with a contemporary edge in its frankness. It's quite fascinating. Not at all what I was expecting.

[Plum]

Posted: 10/11/10 at 11:41am

Dark Matter: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton, by Philip Kerr. (Why? Because it's Newton-as-Holmes, that's why. :P)

Oh, and my Family Law casebook. Bleh.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 1:15pm

[IAMWHATIAM]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 1:25pm

My son is reading The Catcher in the Rye in English class, so I'm rereading it now, too. Gotta say, it's quite different reading it at ... this age than it was on first reading at age 13 or 14.

[uncageg]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 4:42pm

Finally finished reading "Obama's Wars" by Bob Woodward. Had to put it down for a bit to digest it. For anyone interested in the wars, it is a good read. Had to use the back of the book a lot for all f the abbreviations they used. Came away with a little less respect for some of the people running the military.

Next up is Marlo Thomas' "Growing Up Laughing". Something lighter. I just picked up David Nicholls' "One Day" at the library so that will be the next book after Marlo's.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 5:10pm

Just finished "Rat Girl" by Kristin Hersh last night.

Tonight I begin Michael Cunningham's new novel, "By Nightfall."

[MotorTink]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 5:36pm

The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly. I recently read The Poet & The Narrows which were his others in his series with these characters. But I am such a sucker for crime/psychological thrillers.

My new Grisham comes out next week so that will definitely be on the agenda.

[Salene]

Posted: 10/22/10 at 5:19pm

Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years - Sue Townsend

[pushdabutton]

Posted: 10/22/10 at 6:10pm

I just started reading Terry McMillan's latest book Getting to Happy. It's her sequel to Waiting to Exhale.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/22/10 at 7:24pm

Obama's Wars

[Dollypop]

Posted: 10/22/10 at 9:03pm

>>>"My son is reading The Catcher in the Rye in English class, so I'm rereading it now, too. Gotta say, it's quite different reading it at ... this age than it was on first reading at age 13 or 14."<<<

When I first started teaching, about 40 years ago, CATCHER was a book that would capture the students from the very start. It was the kind of novel that they'd finish in a night, even though I'd assigned only one or two chapters.

Toward the end of my career, I was working in an urban school that wasn't exactly "inner city" but came real close. At that time the students found the book to be "whack" and "corny" (their term for 'boring').

Just today I was asked to fill-in for an ailing English teacher in a suburban, upper-middle class school and the students were reading CATCHER. Although they were plowing through the book, they told me they found it to be inane and pointless.

What might have captured the students' attention 40 years ago might have been the profanity and they read along to discover when it would pop up next. Profanity has become so casual in today's world that it means nothing to today's teens.

Sad. Terribly sad.

[danmag]

Posted: 10/22/10 at 9:44pm

Just finished The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall and thought it was outstanding.

Was supposed to read My Antonia by Willa Cather for book club but just couldn't get through it.

Getting ready to reread The Corrections.

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 10/22/10 at 10:01pm

I get impulsively snagged by interviews with authors. Hence, I am now listening to the audiobook of Eighteen Acres by Nicolle Wallace, and so far, I'm enjoying it.

READING reading? Tim Gunn's book. And Earth (our resident bathroom book...it's hilarious and perfectly suited for a 3-5 minute indulgence.)

Not my "heaviest" reading week. More escapist, if you will.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/12/10 at 5:37pm

"The Kennedy Detail"

Fascinating.

Just finished it and couldn't put it down.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 11/12/10 at 6:39pm

danmag, I tried so hard to get into the Corrections. I just found my eyes glazing over and my mind wandering. I got about 1/2 way in and returned it to the library. It was just too tedious.

Right now I'm reading a silly little book called Savannah Breeze by Mary Kay Andrews.

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 11/12/10 at 6:53pm

I couldn't put down the Kennedy Detail once I started it. That's basically what I did last weekend. Really interesting.

I'm currently reading a book called Any Human Heart which I heard a guy on the podcast "Books on the Nightstand" refer to as his favorite book. Ever. I'm not far enough into it to offer an opinion; the jury is still out.

And I'm listening to an Anna Quindlan novel, "Blessings", from a few years ago. The story is a tad far-fetched, but the characters she draws are interesting. I like listening to podcasts and audiobooks on certain days at work, when listening won't get in the way of doing some of the parts of the job that don't require full attention... sending letters, looking up reports... And by the same token, I don't want to listen to something seriously detailed or heavy in that setting either.