What you are reading

[bella]

thanks manna i'll seek it out next time i'm at my bookstore did MR do a reading when she visited or was it a booksigning, lucky you

[Manna]

I think she spoke, but I had class at the time and only went to the signing.

[jillian0108]

Short story by Flannery O'Connor "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

[st theresa]

Cannot seem to read a book nowadays
Have several going at the same time
Mysticism -by Evelyn Underhill--It leapt off the shelf in a used book store close to my new work place.
Jesus and Forgiveness-Ken Wapnick--suggested by a good friend
The Bible-Karen Armstrong
The History of the Seige of Lisbon by Jose Saramago
Commentaries on Living -Series II by J. Krishnamurti--also suggested by a good friend.

[bella]

Searching for Sebald (collection of essays and works about in response to W.G. sebald) while reading Rings of Saturn and Emigrants love them- its like going for a walk with someone who knows so much more than i do but imparts it so beautifully it feels more like a dream

bella

[anunitu]

I like time reading "The Golden Bough", many interesting facts on culture, and the birth of social systems.

BTW, you can get the full text from The Gutenberg Project.

Bullfinches Mythology is also good, and also at the Gutenberg project

[Grecian man]

I'm reading " GOD IS NOT GREAT " by Christopher Hitchens

The ultimate case against religion , good read but I prefere

Richard Dawkins style of writing , Hitchens pulls no punches

to the religious apologist .

[kwills]

Just finished reading The Terror by Dan Simmons.A superb historical novel,with a twist of the supernatural in it,about Sir John Franklin's expedition to find the Northwest Passage.Absolutely gripping.

[Kevin]

I finished A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. I have been on the lookout for it since you mentioned it, ydc. I found it at a used book shop, finally, and finished it in a few days once I got around to reading it. A very interesting book with its examination of Native American issues being particularly compelling. I have now started reading an examination of The Communist Manifesto. As predictable as that may be...

[kwills]

Sorry this came out all wrong.That's what you get for trying to be a wiseass!

[kwills]

I like time reading "The Golden Bough", many interesting facts on culture, and the birth of social systems.

BTW, you can get the full text from The Gutenberg Project.

Bullfinches Mythology is also good, and also at the Gutenberg project

Can you please sit down you are making me tired!

[Wenslauw]

Still reading "Ripley's game" by Patricia Highsmith. "A man" by Oriana Fallaci will be next.

[Wenslauw]

I've been through that. For decades I was too restless to be able to sit down with a book. Slowly I'm improving, but these days I don't have the time because I work too much... There's always something...

[Kevin]

The Dispossessed by Ursula K LeGuin. This is the story of a physicist who lives on an anarchist planet. He wants to break down the barriers between his society and that of the "propertarian" world it broke away from. To accomplish this he decides to give to the other world The Priciples of Simultaneity, a breakthrough of the order of Einstein's general theory of relativity. This is an idea his world doesn't want to hear about and the other wants desperately to use for its own various private interests. I didn't want to finish - and that's as positive a comment as I can give to any book.

[bella]

just finished W.G Sebald's Emigrants, a beautiful book about being exiled from one's homeland and the subsequent loss through the documentation of four jewish emigres. i found i had to read it slowly but sebald is wonderful at creating this atmosphere of moments and places that one catches in oneself at times but which (in my case) i fail to observe as carefully as he does. i think he is a wonderful writer.

bella