What are you reading?

Bazaar of Bad Dreams, by Stephen King.

Troublemaker, by Leah Remini.

I've been kinda going back and forth between these two, though now I'm more into Troublemaker at the moment. Since King's book is a collection of short stories, I can get back to it anytime. As soon as I'm done with one of these, I'll be starting on Fortunate Son, by John Fogarty.

Jim
 
James Lee Burke.. Tin Roof Blowdown..amonst the other sack of books i have.. I read an average of 5 books a week.
 
Bernard Cornwell's Sword Song. Great historical fiction with plenty of edged tool action. He has several dozen books in print and our library has most of them.
 
Last Voyage of Captain Cook: The Collected Writings of John Ledyard
As a bit of an history nut, I just love this stuff.
 
Beer Hippy said:
Bernard Cornwell's Sword Song. Great historical fiction with plenty of edged tool action. He has several dozen books in print and our library has most of them.
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I haven't read this one, but I really enjoyed Cornwell's Nate Starbuck series as well as his excellent Stormchild. I'll put Sword Song on my list.
 
Slogging my way through the Game of Thrones series again so that I can pick up watching the tv show again.
 
I am also a Bernard Cornwell fan!.. I found GOT a hard read. Ended up not finishing them but imma try agian.
 
Since my last visit I have finished Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Excellent book that I will read again.

Scott Fitzgerald. A biography by Andrew Turnbull.

Hemingway. The 1930's through the final years. by Michael Reynolds. Excellent read!
 
Hey this thread is JUST WHAT I NEED !
I finished A Christmas Carol by Dickens for the umpteenth time in Dec.
Then tried The Bracebridge Hall Christmas Stories (which were kind of good for the season; I might read them again in a couple of years.
now . . . ? . . .
I have fallen back on my old addiction : basically ANYTHING writen by Douglas Adams (see the Hitch Hiker "trilogy").
Have reread those until . . . well it is embarassing to elaborate.

I am looking for anything even half as entertaining. Sillyness is good as long as (as Pooh would say) it has brain.
I could do without much else with what I call "the Hemingway effect". Hem. , where ever you are, you are the stuff !
It's just that I prefer a touch more humor.
 
Moby Dick, . . .
I started it more than once about 28 years ago, and never finished . . . was a young kid back then . . . took another stab, and finished.
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Ha, ha,
When I was in high school I had to write some dambed essay or something and that was what I picked, it could have been on watching paint dry / I didn't care I was just putting in my time. I never read the book just patched together some BS. I was reading a lot back then but . . . anyway . . . I finally read Moby Dick several years ago and quite liked it. When I got to the last page I was wishing there was more. Wasn't my thing at all back in high school though.

started but never finished. Tried several times
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I'm that way with Ulysses by Joyce. These days I do most of my reading at lunch at work. For instance I reread for the umpteenth time all the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories early last year just while eating lunch every day. No prob. I love those.

So I pulled Ulysses to the top of the old Kindle and started in where I left off determined to take it in small bits . . . I mean Sylvia Beach busted her butt to get the nasty thing published so there must be SOMETHING to it . . . right ? Anyway I start to eat lunch and I starts in to read Ulysses and what do you guess the topic of the chapter is ? . . . snot.

Do you see my reservation here ? I don't know . . . must be the flaw is in me . . . not the book . . . . I think I would rather sit and tap my knee with a hammer. I am impressed with people who have made it all the way though. Maybe I need heavier pitons or better crampons or something.
 
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Here yah go . . . (since I am hogging the heck out of this thread what's one more) . . .
Here's a REAL book :)

And one more reason to own the large CS Hold Out I (holds your book open while you are eating lunch) !

PS : the book is Trustee From The Tool Room by Nevil Shute
He was a real aeronautics engineer back when . . . to quote him "When every time we went up in a plane we learned something important". Later during WW II he had top security clearance and was an engineer in the British war department. About all of his books are totally interesting and worth more than one read.

Check out his book Slide Rule. It's his autobiography and recounts his work on the R101 air ship (dirigible). He describes what it is like to take a moon lit walk on the top of the skin, under the stars . . .
while it is traveling 75 mph . . . over the Atlantic ocean . . . untethered. That takes big ones.
Great books anyway.

 
Wowbagger said:
I'm that way with Ulysses by Joyce. These days I do most of my reading at lunch at work. For instance I reread for the umpteenth time all the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories early last year just while eating lunch every day. No prob. I love those.

So I pulled Ulysses to the top of the old Kindle and started in where I left off determined to take it in small bits . . . I mean Sylvia Beach busted her butt to get the nasty thing published so there must be SOMETHING to it . . . right ? Anyway I start to eat lunch and I starts in to read Ulysses and what do you guess the topic of the chapter is ? . . . snot.

Do you see my reservation here ? I don't know . . . must be the flaw is in me . . . not the book . . . . I think I would rather sit and tap my knee with a hammer. I am impressed with people who have made it all the way though. Maybe I need heavier pitons or better crampons or something.
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It is more like an epic poem than a 19th or 20th century novel — but most of us (speaking for myself here) don't get it until we hear it read by an intelligent reader like Sally Kellerman.

[video=youtube;HviIFg9ePuY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HviIFg9ePuY[/video]
 
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