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Just finished Playing for Pizza Annie. A quick read. Have you read Bleachers? Read that a couple years ago. Both quite good.

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My wife has read the first three of the series since Thursday, and is 400+ pages into the fourth!!!! She is a fast reader and all, but it makes me want to read them if they are really that good.:hm

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Just finished The Darkest Evening of the year By Dean Koonts.

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I'm not a fan of Koontz or Stephen King (although I did like The Stand; The Shining film was good too, never read the novel) No offense to your read. Did you enjoy it?

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The Shining is about my family... I just love reading the opening line to the book: "Jack Torrence was an officious prick..." Truly a Torrence family memoir.

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"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."

- REDRUM

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a text message...I know, quite educational.

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My students seem to think that it is acceptable to write papers using text message language. :bh

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I just started Kill Bin Laden, a firsthand account of the hunt for Usama Bin Laden by the elite Delta Force in December of 2001 in the Tora Bora mountain range of Afganistan.

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A few years ago, I joined the Hard Case Crime Book Club, which reprints paperback crime novels from WWII to 1960, and also has current authors write in that pulp style. They're great, quick reads. Some of the authors so far have been Erle Stanley Gardner, Mickey Spillane, Lawrence Block, Elmore Leonard, and Stephen King. The covers have original art in pulp style by guys like Robert McGinnis and Glen Orbik.

Right now I'm a few months behind, and I'm reading The Murderer Vine by Shepard Rifkin.

http://www.hardcasecrime.com/books/bk43/cover_big.jpg

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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot

"In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo."

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The Limits of Power by Andrew J. Bacevich.

Great read so far, very constructive criticism of today's America.

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Nothing like a good detective book. I'm starting a Mystery Reading group through the library for the winter in my small town-first book up is Maltese Falcon. I thought we would start with a classic.

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Dead Until Dark by Charlene Harris. First in a series of vampire mystery. A funny book-very light reading.

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Just finished Tuesdays with Morrie. Wow! Just wow! Awesome read. Emotional and inspirational.

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Clive Cussler and his Oregon Series right now

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for english class

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Thunderball, 1963 (or so) paperback, Ian Fleming.

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With Out A Doubt.

Marsh Clark's book on the O.J Simpson trial.

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Reading Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods.

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I just started "A History of the World in 6 Glasses" by Tom Standage. It's good so far.

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Just finished "Fleeced" by D**K Morris and now I've started "The Really Inconvenient Truths" by Iain Murray

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How are you finding it? I recall rather enjoying it, certainly not dry or boring history.

One of my favorites, absolutely hilarious.

I Just finished Black Elk Speaks, and now am starting Blood Struggle by Charles Wilkinson, both for school. Also re-reading The Conscious Use of Metaphor in Outward Bound.

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:tu...I've read some of his more well-known pieces (Wasteland, Murder In The Cathedral, Prufrock, Old Possum's, etc.) and just got my hands on a copy of T. S. Eliot's The Complete Poems And Plays...it's near the top of my must read pile...

Currently reading The 21st Annual Year's Best Science Fiction (2004)...edited by Gardner Dozois...

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Right now I am reading the cigar asylum forums.:pi

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While waiting for CigarGal's next novel---! :tt

...I'm rereading Gram's (RIP) second book, "Montana Treasure: Doctor O.A. Kenck, His Life and Times". Jeeez, I must still have something like 400 of these in the guest room!

Plus I picked up my first ERB John Carter series paperback this weekend... looks like fun!

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I always have 3 or 4 books started and stashed around the house that I can pick up and start reading anytime.

I've read these before, but right now it's:

Great Expectations - Stashed in the garage/winter cigar haven

I Killed Hemingway - Stashed on the nightstand

The Annotated Legends (Dragonlance) - Stashed beside the recliner

I seem to be in a fiction mood lately, but it's all good if it get's your mind moving.

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Great Expectations is, well, Great!
I thought Hemmingway killed Hemmingway.

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The Body of David Hayes by Ridley Pearson

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:D
It's about a guy claiming Hemingway was actually a hack that stole his entire persona, including his writing style, from him.

It's not a bad choice of fiction to read when the weather gets cold since a lot of the story takes place in Key West.

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These ERB books are a lot of fun. I read through them twice about 30 years ago. I like the Tarzan books as well.

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Just finished Kafka on the Shore by Murakami Haruki. Going to have to put it aside to reread it later, there are still parts I don't get. :confused:

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Just finished the Princess of Burundi by Kjell Eriksson.

http://www.amazon.com/Princess-Burun.../dp/0312327676

It was a pleasant read, could have been much better. The suspense heightened in the end, but I was always waiting for the big surprise and it never really came. Since it is one in a series, I'm not sure if there is more to come as far as some of the back stories.

I never really understood the tie in of the Princess of Burundi and the fish with the rest of the story -- it almost seemed unnecessary for the story, but since it was built into the title it should have been more integrated. Overall 3.5 out of 5.

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The Gum Thief by Douglass Coupland. One of the funniest books I have read in a while. I laughed more at J-POD but this one is close.

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Desert Heat by J.A. Jance 2/3 thru and so far she does nothing for me.

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Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell.

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"How We Live" by Sherwin Nuland

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Starting Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer. I think the movie comes out this month.

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The Gathering Storm by Kate Elliot.

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I've been reading the Bible a lot lately, a book called "Serenity" and I have a few Jared Diamond books waiting for me.

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"Fourteen Friends Guide to Eldercaring". Reading this for a friend whose Mom has lost her mind to elder dementia, just like Gram. Lots of the same stuff it took me years to figure out. Joan Seal of Approval on this one.

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just starting Eugene O'neill's play "Long Day's Journey Into Night" for english class. No clue what it is about or anything, but going to found out

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In The Ruins by Kate Elliot. Volume 6 of the Crown of Stars series. Last one!

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Tarpon Quest

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Over half way through Wicked by Gregory Maguire. My wife loves all his books and I'm taking her to see the musical in Chicago next week so I figured I'd read it. Not at all what I thought it would be. Lots of political and theological overtones...interesting to say the least.

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That's what I thought about Wicked-ineresting and unexpected. I have the sequel, Son of a Witch on audio, but haven't listened to it yet. The musical is a lot of fun.

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I'm about half through A Monk Swimming by Malachy McCourt. I read his brother's two books as well, Angela's Ashes and 'Tis by Frank McCourt. Angela's Ashes is a remarkable book, an amazing story. 'Tis turns pretty whiny after a while. A Monk Swimming is ok, but it drags on. He really could have just said I'm Irish and like to drink as opposed to writing this whole book.

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Bury Us Upside Down: The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail by Rick Newman and Don Shepperd

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Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil by Robert Zubrin

Very interesting so far. He's a huge (understatement) supporter of methanol/ethanol flex fuel cars.

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Forest Mage by Robin Hobb.