Long before I started this blog, I started keeping track of the books I read for my own reference. My log, written on the inside back covers of red spiral notebooks, my personal journals, goes back ten years. I like to go back and see what I've read, to see the topics that have captured my attention, to see the authors I've enjoyed, to see how often I have read a particular favorite book.
Instead of occasionally asking you what you are currently reading on Your Turn Thursdays, I thought I'd ask you every week on Tell Me Tuesdays. That way, those who participate will be able to look back after a few weeks, a few months? and see their reading paths, and we all get to benefit by hearing about your books, too.
The more participants there are, the more fun it will be. We'll get to recognize different readers by their choices and might soon be recommending new books to each other.
Thanks for the idea, Don.
So, what are you reading everyone?
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I am reading The Attack by Yasmina Khadra. It is about a Palestinian surgeon living in Israel who, after spending a horrible day operating on victims of a suicide bomber, discovers that his wife was the bomber. He had no idea she was tied to any terrorists cells. The book his about his coming to terms with what she did and why.
Kavalier and Clay, by Chabon
Botany of Desire, by Pollan
Chains of Fate by Pamela Bell. Second book of historical fiction set in Civil war-torn England. Easy, entertaining read, nothing too deep but I'm especially enjoying hearing name-places in East Anglia that I'm familiar with.
May I include read-alouds to the kids? We have just finished "Born Free", "Living Free" and "Forever Free" by Joy Adamson. The story of an orphan lioness and her family raised by Joy and her husband in East Africa.
I was so happy to see that you had read Brainiac, Christine. No one I know 1) watches Jeopardy 2) knows who Ken Jennings is 3) ever heard of Brainiac.
I devoured this book.
Jennings is so quick and witty, and much more worldly than I expected.
I had to limit myself to a chapter or two at a time in order not to gobble it all down at once.
I'm reading I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle
and Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler by Joe Queenan. Like me, he hates almost everything.
I just finished the latest book in The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher--juicy sci-fi/fantasy. I've also been plugging away at McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories edited by Michael Chabon, and I'm one chapter into The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood. It's unheard of for me to be reading more than one book at a time. When Janet Evanovich's 13 book comes out this month, I'm dropping everything!
All right, here's my list: Pilgrim At Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, His Excellency, George Washington by Joseph Ellis,
You shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers and have just started my annual reading of I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. Basically reading everything I can before the new Harry Potter book takes over all my free time.
Drop everything, Cook, the Evanovich book is out now.
Al, every time I pass a copy of I Capture the Castle at B&N I think of you!
I just finished Poison Elves, by Drew Hayes. It could have used an editor for spelling, grammar, and general clarity of sentence structure, but a lot of stuff got blown up or hacked to bits, and there were plenty of sarcastic remarks. Not exactly great literature, but a very entertaining read.
DRD
I just finished Though the Darkness Hide Thee by Susan Wise Bauer and have started......Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich. Sorry I am late posting. Had to read.
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