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[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 8/26/12 at 1:28pm

^ I found that part to be fascinating! It was pretty graphic though.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 8/26/12 at 4:48pm

It was definitely interesting, but I felt so horrible for those little girls!

[canmark]

Posted: 8/26/12 at 8:08pm

I bought Gore Vidal's memoir "Palimpsest" after his recent death and am partway through. And I was just given "Butterfly in the Typewriter," a biography about John Kennedy Toole (author of "A Confederacy of Dunces"), which I started reading today.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 8/27/12 at 2:43am

Now I'm reading Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 8/27/12 at 2:44am

Oh sorry. I said that already.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 12:27pm

Reading WHO GOES THERE?, the novella that the various versions of THE THING were based on. Interesting, speedy read.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 12:36pm

Stockard - I'm very curious to hear what you think of Snow Flower. I absolutely loved it. I had such a morbid curiosity about the foot binding, I Google images of it on the internet and it's just unreal. I can't imagine putting myself through that kind of torture.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 12:53pm

I loved that book. It was completely absorbing. And a fascinating look into aspects of a culture I knew very little about.

I also read 'Peony in Love' by Lisa See. She's a gifted writer.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 12:56pm

I loved it too. I have Peony in Love on my waiting list at the e-library. I swear I posted another post here today. Has anyone read The Third Twin by Ken Follet?

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 1:32pm

I am reading book three of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series! A very good series with lots of history, romance, suspense, and great characters. If you like "saga-like" historical fiction, I would definitely recommend checking out her books!

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 10/22/12 at 7:42pm

Richard Ford's Canada

It's okay. A little dreary, hardly a page-turner, but written beautifully as per usual.

[Plum]

Posted: 10/22/12 at 7:54pm

Biggest Brother, by Larry Alexander

Yes, this was prompted by a Band of Brothers rewatch. DON'T JUDGE ME.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 10/22/12 at 8:38pm

I just read a book called Black Out by Lisa Unger. It was a psychological thriller. I'm still a little confused as to what was real and what was only in her head. It was pretty good though.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 10/22/12 at 8:53pm

I found a used, in good condition, hard copy of Pauline Kael's FOR KEEPS. Since it is reviews and some essays, I have been going all over the place looking at her old stuff. I know some of her negative critiques got attention but her rave of The Godfather Part II is sublimely written among other stuff.

[MotorTink]

Posted: 10/23/12 at 8:29am

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn. Already read Gone Girl & Sharp Objects. She's not my favorite, but she is not bad.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 10/23/12 at 12:21pm

Gone Girl is our book club book for December (we are skipping November because of T-giving)

[sally1112]

Posted: 10/23/12 at 8:40pm

I always read horror in October. I just finished King's Carrie, I can't believe I have never read it. It's great and still relevant.
Now I am reading Dean Koontz Phantoms. I am not a Koontz fan, but a freind recommended this as a creepy, scary Halloween read. I am 150 pages in and enjoying it so far.

[Yawper]

Posted: 10/23/12 at 10:58pm

There's so little non-fiction, especially history, mentioned. It's reflected in bookstore and library stacks, too, - very disheartening.

Anyway, my current read, State of Deception, was published by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009 as a companion piece to the exhibit they were running at the time. It's been surprising in that never before have I seen the Nazis revealed as so calculatingly politically aware and utterly in control of what they were doing during their rise to power and the pre-war years.

It's also apropos of the recent US election cycles where blatant propaganda and media-driven sound bites have dominated to the exclusion of honest discussion and presentation.


State of Deception Updated On: 10/23/12 at 10:58 PM

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 10/24/12 at 1:24am

Depends--memoirs seem to still be huge sellers. To be honest, I read so much non-fiction for school and work, that a thread like this makes me think of what I read as a break from that--mainly fiction. (I also admit that when I read non-fiction I tend to read it differently--depending of course on how it's written--skipping around or reading a collection of essays in whatever order I want).

State of Deception sounds interesting.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 10/24/12 at 1:38am

Just before Canada, I read a book full of excerpts from memoirs - ranging from Albert Einstein to Billie Holiday to Stephen Fry...'twas fascinating!

Um, I can't seem to remember the name of it though.

[Plum]

Posted: 10/24/12 at 4:59am

Weirdly, now that I'm out of school I've shifted more towards reading non-fiction on my own rather than just when it was assigned to me. Right now I'm almost done with the Richard Winters biography and have started one of Jo Mielziner.

[tazber]

Posted: 10/24/12 at 6:07am

The new Tom Wolfe novel just came out. Going to B&N today to get a copy!

[MotorTink]

Posted: 10/24/12 at 8:22am

The new John Grisham came out yesterday, The Rackateers. I'm excited!

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 10/24/12 at 9:50am

I just finished Broadway Nights by Seth Rudetsky. Haven't decided what I'm going to read next.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 10/25/12 at 9:51pm

I leafed through Bill O'Reilly's Killing Kennedy today by way of procrastination, and despite the author being a moron it didn't totally suck. I have no intention of finishing it, though - a flick will suffice. 666 reviews on amazon too, which I thought appropriate.