Read Any Good Books Lately?

A DENSITY OF SOULS by Christopher Rice

Over the summer I read Molto Agitato: The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera by Johanna Fiedler. It was like The Glamorous Life but set in the Met. So malicious. So wonderful. I'm currently waiting for my copy of Covent Garden: The Untold Story.

I'm in the middle of Geoff Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with DH Lawrence and am almost done with Babycakes, the fourth installment of Maupin's Tales of the City series. I got a lot of plays for Christmas, most of which I read on the train ride home and the flight to and from Moscow. Also finished Clinging to the Wreckage a few weeks ago.

But soon I'm going to have to buckle down and start reading my school books.

I read a book called "Iguana in the Sun". ....

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Interview with an Iguana by Ann Nice

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I have read before I go to sleep most every night since I was 13. I am an avid mystery fan. I also like the Ann Rice, Stephen King and Ann Perry novels. DP you sure like those iguanas.

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I can never read one book at a time so right now I am halfway in between
The Book Of Dreams By Sylvia Brown
Disney; The Mouse Betrayed
and Me And My Shadows by Lorna Luft...I like them all so far especially the Disney one.

"Wing: Rise of a Geisha Star"
"Martha S: Housewife Mogul"
"George & Michael: A Taboo Love Story"
"Janet Jackson: Ta Ta"

Seriously though:

Pepys Diary
Harry Potter
Bill Bryson books

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It disturbs me to no end that innocentchoirboy and I read the same books.

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Annie on my Mind - Nancy Garden
Treason - Ann Coulter *tries to look angelic*

I am currently readin " Losing Bin Laden" - very heady stuff. Next up will probably be either Mystic River or the Follies book

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Boy, it's been a while since I read a "Good" book. Lately I've been in the mood for quick, light reads so it's been John Grisham and Dan Brown.

Here are some books that I have read over the past year or two and would recommend:

The Hours...you get so much more out of the book than the movie

Mary Called Magdaline by Margaret George who also wrote a couple of other books I loved, The Memoirs of Cleopatra and The Autobiography of Henry VIII

A few that have been around for a while and are worth reading if you haven't already;
The Poisonwood Bible
The Rapture of Caanan
The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Blind Assasign.

Rereading old classics is always fun. In the past couple of years I've reread some novels that I haven't read in years and was fascinated to see the difference in the way I perceived things with a more adult mind. Some of my favorite classics;

To Kill A Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
In Cold Blood (I love Truman Capote)
The Grapes Of Wrath

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mystic river - lehane
without remorse - clancy
easy riders, raging bulls - biskind

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