What are you reading?

SccHarpGirl · 01-13-2012, 03:34 PM

I definitely second the recommendation for The Help. Very good read.

I am reading "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" by Jamie Ford. It's set in Seattle, about a Chinese-American man and his search to find a Japanese-American girl he was friends with prior to the deportment of the Japanese to internment camps during WWII. It alternates present-day chapters with flashbacks to the 1940s. I'm really enjoying it so far.

I also just finished A Game of Thrones. Interesting book. Fantasy all grown up. Great writing, very engaging book, but very dark with a plenty of adult content.

**slap_j** · 01-13-2012, 03:45 PM

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

**beanbag** · 01-21-2012, 10:58 AM

east of the sun by julia gregson.

it's a re-read but i really like it. it's set in early mid-20th century (during gandhi and the india riots before the british pulled out) and focuses on the pressure girls had to be chosen for marriage, the tension between traditional and modern (especially for the girls who were a little of each), and explores schizophrenia in a time when no one talked about it or recognized it as a medical condition.

***Art*** · 01-21-2012, 04:05 PM

Since my last post, I finished "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea" by Chelsea Handler. I also read "Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang" by Chelsea Handler, "Slaughterhouse Five, or The Children's Crusade" by Kurt Vonnegut and "The Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need" BY Dave Barry.

I am now reading "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Cam42 · 01-21-2012, 05:37 PM

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams.

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

**Thrash** · 01-21-2012, 10:01 PM

Lies, Inc. by Phillip K. Dick

**Role Modlin** · 01-31-2012, 07:42 AM

11/22/63 by Stephen King

**bravesfan007** · 01-31-2012, 07:53 AM

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Spy by Eric Metaxas.

Before this one I finished City On Our Knees by tobymac.

**beanbag** · 01-31-2012, 10:25 AM

5th avenue, 5 am

it's interesting...i feel like it should be supplemental reading for a women in film class or something.

MrCrabby · 02-25-2012, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Thrash

Lies, Inc. by Phillip K. Dick

Recently read this one (as The Unteleported Man).
Not my favorite of his novels. It really just doesn't make sense a lot of the time (and that's saying a lot as an avid reader of his). The 100-page drug trip in the middle of the book was quite interesting, though.

Wow, haven't posted here since November.....what have I been up to.....

Fahrenheit 451 -- Bradbury
Ender's Game -- Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead -- Card
Ragtime -- E.L. Doctorow
A Confederacy of Dunces -- John Kennedy Toole
Hocus Pocus -- Kurt Vonnegut
Armageddon In Retrospect -- Vonnegut
Overclocked -- Cory Doctorow
The Unteleported Man -- Philip K. Dick
Currently on Invisible Man -- Ralph Waldo Ellison

...and I feel like I never make a dent in my "to read" list.

3chords+TRUTH · 02-25-2012, 08:24 PM

I just finished Christianity in Crisis: 21st Century by Hank Hanegraaff.

It was an entertaining read especially if you are familiar with some of the more popular televangelists who are leading the Faith movement and preaching the false pretexts of the "give-to-get gospel".

One of my favorite points by Hanegraaff reads:
"If the hundredfold message were fact, prosperity teachers would never again have to ask for money. Instead, they would be in the streets, giving it away as fast as they could so they could get more."