What are you reading?- Page 2

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 9/15/09 at 9:24pm

I just finished "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Steig Larsson. I highly recommend it if you're into Swedish murder mysteries that involve rich industrial families with many secrets, modern day investigative journalism and mentally disturbed hacker chicks. The sequel "The Girl Who Played With Fire" was recently released and I plan on reading it soon.

I'm about 3/4 of the way through David Foster Wallace's "The Broom of the System" and it's somewhat hard to define. It's essentially about this girl Lenore whose father is the owner of a highly successful baby food manufacturing company. Her grandmother, also named Lenore, goes missing and her father enlists her to figure out where she is. Lenore's boyfriend, 20 years her senior is Rick Vigorous and is also her boss at a fake publishing house and her brother has a fake leg that he uses to stash drugs.... It's something you can read to your seven year old at bed time. Oh and her bird Vlad the Impaler starts to develop a naughty mouth and is subsequently borrowed by a rabid televangelist who puts the bird on its own TV special.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 9/15/09 at 9:27pm

just finishing "Official Book Club Selection" by Kathy Griffin and have "Chocolate Please" by Lisa Lampanelli in the wings.. :)

[HollyGolightly2]

Posted: 9/15/09 at 10:32pm

I'm about a third of the way through "Phantom", by Susan Kay. It's a sort-of-canon prequel/retelling of the original Phantom of the Opera novel by Gaston Leroux. It's the story of the Phantom's entire life, from birth to death, and afterwards. It's actually really interesting, even if you hate the ALW musical.


Updated On: 9/15/09 at 10:32 PM

[BroomstickBoy]

Posted: 9/15/09 at 11:31pm

The Meaning of Matthew : My Son's Murder in Laramie and a World Transformed by Judy Shepard.

[Plum]

Posted: 9/16/09 at 12:03am

Finished The Confusion at last a week back. Now I'm on to...Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences. Oh, school. (I'm also reading casebooks on copyright law and international human rights and a paper on human volition. And that's before my constitutional philosophy class, which will probably start by assigning me a bunch of the collected writings of James Wilson.)

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 9/16/09 at 2:42pm

I'm re-reading Ethan Mordden's books on the American Musical, but in chronological order. Right now I'm on "One Last Kiss" and after I read "The Happiest Corpse I've Ever Seen", I'll read his biography of Ziegfeld.

Though I took a break from it to read John Lahr's biography of his father Bert Lahr, "Notes on a Cowardly Lion". I'd always wanted to read it and finally got around to it to help me prepare for a callback for a comedy.

[RockabyeHamlet]

Posted: 9/19/09 at 11:42am

I'm currently reading The Time Travelers Wife.

Next up: True Compass, Ted Kennedy's Memoir

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 9/19/09 at 12:20pm

I'm about three-quarters of the way through Up From Orchard Street by Eleanor Widmer. It's unbelievable.

I've also started Distant Waves by Suzanne Weyn, but so far I can't really get into it.

[degrassifan]

Posted: 9/19/09 at 11:34pm

Just finished A Step From Heaven by An Na.

Currently reading Persepolis.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 10/14/09 at 2:17pm

I just finished a book by Nancy Thayer called Between Husbands and Friends. It wasn't a big intellectual book or anything, but it was a good story!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/14/09 at 2:34pm

Just finished Kathy Griffin's book, which I loved, and starting The Lost Symbol.

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 10/14/09 at 2:38pm

The manual to my GPS.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 10/14/09 at 2:39pm

A few chapters into "Her Fearful Symmetry." I never read her "Time Traveler's Wife," which I know people adored.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 10/14/09 at 3:07pm

BTW, Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall"--which just won the Man Booker Prize--is a brilliant take on Cromwell, More, and Henry VII.

If you're looking for your next book . . .

[StockardFan]

Posted: 10/14/09 at 3:15pm

Reg, you have to read The Time Traveler's Wife! I just wrote the Girl With the Dragon tattoo on my list that I keep in my library bag (yes I'm a dork) to see if they have it when I go next. I meant to check it out before and forgot about it.

I also saw at the store that Pat Conroy has a new book out, but I'm sure I'll have to be put on a waiting list for it.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/14/09 at 3:56pm

I have too many books queued up to read. I really need to kick it into high gear: the Mackenzie Phillips book (yeah, I said it), The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Time Traveler's Wife, John Sandford's Phantom Prey, Dean Koontz's Relentless, A Lion Among Men, Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America...it's going to take me months to catch up. By the time I've finished, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest will probably be released in the US.

I only just now discovered that The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was originally intended as a ten-volume series, but only the first three were completed before the author's untimely death.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 10/14/09 at 4:01pm

I finished Cormac McCarthy's BLOOD MERIDIAN about a week ago, and was completely blown away. An amazing book in pretty much every way.

Now reaching the last hundred odd pages of Philip K. Dick's FLOW MY TEARS, THE POLICEMAN SAID. Interesting book that has grown on me in the last few days, far more to it than I had expected.

Next up: GIRL WITH DRAGON TATTOO, or maybe that new translation of Grass' THE TIN DRUM.

You know, some light reading...

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 10/14/09 at 4:03pm

I'm bouncing between THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, Paul Shaffer's memoir, and THE ANGELS GAME.

[James885]

Posted: 10/14/09 at 4:08pm

I'm reading The New Rebellion, a book from the Star Wars universe. Yes, I am a bit of a Star Wars geek, but I'm mostly a fan of the books, not the action figures, comics, and whatnot.

I'd like to get my hands on The Lost Symbol, but I think I'm gonna have to wait till it comes out in paperback.

[jessica0414]

Posted: 10/14/09 at 5:26pm

^ me too, James. I work at a bookstore and a woman the other day was really really angry that it wasn't out in paperback yet. I was like "It's new and a bestseller, there's no way it will be in paperback any time soon" but she insisted her sister told her it was. *headdesk*

I just finished "The Year of Living Biblically" by A.J. Jacobs and really enjoyed it. I also just started his first book, "The Know-it-All," which is a little boring but still pretty fun. I just want to get to the part where he goes on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" lol.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 10/14/09 at 5:32pm

Did you tell her her sister was an idiot? LOL

[sally1112]

Posted: 10/14/09 at 8:43pm

Currently reading Ken Follett's "The Pillars of the Earth." After a very slow start I am finally getting into it around page 400.

[degrassifan]

Posted: 10/15/09 at 12:59am

Just finished "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian".

About to start "Parrot In the Oven".

[kate2]

Posted: 10/15/09 at 2:09am

I'm about halfway through "When You are Engulfed in Flames" by David Sedaris. I've been into his stuff lately.

[Craww]

Posted: 10/15/09 at 2:21am

I'm reading The Gunslinger by Stephen King. Like 20 pages left. My mom found it while cleaning her room, and I was out of library books. Of course, she doesn't have the rest of the series, so next library trip I'll have to decide whether to continue in that direction or give it some time and grab something impressively scholarly or literary.