Currently Reading (Take 2) — Page 35

#851

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 1/6/14 at 10:46pm

Love Doctorow.

Spider--I'm in the middle of the Fosse biography too. Great detail, but the author is pretty self-indulgent and gets weird frequently.

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#852

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 1/6/14 at 10:48pm

I am waiting to check out the second installment of Follett's century trilogy, Winter of the World. I have a few others on hold waiting to check them out. But, I may finally dive into "The Twelve" - book 2 of Justin Cronin's vampire/end of world/science gone wrong trilogy.

#853

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 1/7/14 at 8:52am

About 3/4 of the way through Dickens' LITTLE DORRIT, and enjoying the hell out of it. One of his more restrained novels, there's little of the grotesque or bizarre flights of fancy that can animate BLEAK HOUSE and OUR MUTUAL FRIEND.

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#854

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 1/7/14 at 1:25pm

Just started The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan. Didn't take more than a couple of pages to be completely hooked, as usual.

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#855

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 1/7/14 at 1:31pm

I'm re-reading Steinbeck's EAST OF EDEN.

#856

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 1/7/14 at 1:34pm

I "read" Carlos on a hourly basis.

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#857

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 1/7/14 at 1:41pm

I'm reading the SILO series by High Howey. It's a good post-apocalyptic series.

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#858

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 1/7/14 at 1:42pm

I "read" Carlos on a hourly basis.

You "read"?

#859

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 1/7/14 at 1:43pm

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#860

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 1/7/14 at 1:46pm

"I "read" Carlos on a hourly basis.

You "read"?"


Only good trash.

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#861

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 1/7/14 at 1:48pm

Then you must "read" YOURSELF constantly.

Updated On: 1/7/14 at 01:48 PM

#862

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 1/7/14 at 1:50pm

No .. I don't have time. I am so involved with you. Your like Dynasty and Flamingo Road all mixed up with a dash of Judy Blume.

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#863

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 1/7/14 at 6:03pm

I just finished Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple and enjoyed it quite a bit. Still deciding what I want to get into next.

#864

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 1/7/14 at 10:10pm

I read an interesting book that was the first in a trilogy called "The Boy in the Suitcase" over Christmas. Now I'm reading the second book. It's called "Invisible Murder."

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#865

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 1/8/14 at 1:02am

I prefer God's Little Acre to Flamingo Road - such nice peoples.

I have just devoured The Flavia deLuce series of mysteries and have pr-eordered the 6th one.

Oh and finished Idlewild and am about 1/2 way thru Edenborn a nice hard science-y YA post apocalyptic set o books by Nick Sagan -Carl's boy.

#866

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 3/10/14 at 11:08pm

Seeing as it's apparently National Reading Month, I thought I'd bump.

I just picked up Stefan Zweig's The Post Office Girl. The Grand Budapest Hotel is supposedly inspired by Zweig, so I thought I'd give him another go.

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Updated On: 3/10/14 at 11:08 PM

#867

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 3/11/14 at 10:00am

Read in the last month: Ann Patchett's This is the Story of a Happy Marriage; Alissa Nutting's Tampa; Jim Gaffigan's Dad is Fat; Gary Shytengart's Little Failure; David Sedaris' Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls.

About to start: Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers

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#868

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 10/4/14 at 7:42pm

I'm totally broke so I will be spending my Saturday night reading Margaret Atwood's new short story collection, Stone Mattress.

I just thought you all might like to know that.

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#869

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 10/4/14 at 9:04pm

The Circle, Dave Eggers.

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#870

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 10/5/14 at 2:10am

I need something new to read.

I just read "Where'd You Go, Bernadette" and thought it was miraculous.

Tired to read "Swamplandia" but just wasn't my thing.

#871

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 10/5/14 at 7:34am

Just finished a collection of three Colette novellas, Gigi (read it and tell me it's sexist, I dare you), Julie de Carneilhan (did nothing for me), and Chance Acquaintances (one of the best stories I've ver read).

Now, considering starting Richard Russo's Straight Man.

#872

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 2/9/15 at 3:11pm

Currently reading the new Hercule Poirot mystery, The Monogram Murders. I've only read a few of the original Agatha Christies (when I was about fourteen), so can't really say how true this Sophie Hannah version is to the old ones, but it's a lot of fun and easy to read.

Also on the go, Subtly Worded, a collection of shorts by Teffi - the favorite author of Tsar Nicholas II - and it's fascinating. Real-life accounts of her encounters with the likes of Tolstoy and Rasputin, any Russophile would love it.

Anybody reading any good non-fiction? I'm in the mood for something historical.

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Updated On: 2/9/15 at 03:11 PM

#873

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 2/9/15 at 5:57pm

Jay, have you read Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America by Christopher Bram? It's brilliant--it reads almost like a novel, although it will make you want to read nearly every novel it name drops. Bram wrote one of my fave novels, Something Special as well as Frankenstein's Father which became Gods and Monsters. Back when it came out, Bram gave a great interview on gay lit at Salon http://www.salon.com/2012/02/12/is_gay_literature_over/

#874

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 2/9/15 at 6:23pm

Just finished The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis as well as Wolf Hall. Recently (in the past 2 weeks) read Gravity's Rainbow, Finnegans Wake, Cheri and the Last of Cheri, and about 10 plays. Starting Just Lucky I Guess today and am slowly making my way through Showtime by Larry Stempel. I have Fun Home which I would like to start reading this week as well as rereading Christopher and His Kind.

#875

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 2/9/15 at 6:45pm

Rereading my favorite poems.