What are you reading tonight DU? I'm just starting frank mcCourt's "Teacher Man".

[applegrove]

[denbot]

1. Bone Shaker by Cheri Priest

Steam Punk, a new to me genera.

[BlueIris]

2. Balkan Ghosts by Robert Kaplan. nt

[Adsos Letter]

4. Kaplan is an excellent writer...

check out Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus,

or

The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy

or

Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan

if you've not already done so.

[bluedigger]

3. The Long Summer, How Climate Changed Civilization by Brian Fagan n/t

[Adsos Letter]

5. "Religion and the Decline of Magic" ...

Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England by Keith Thomas.

[old mark]

6. Re-reading some old JA Jance mysteries all this week, also reading

a great book on Josey Wales (Gone to Texas) from which the Eastwood movie was made...great book, great writer (Forrest Carter)!


Link: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1433725.Gone_to_Texas


mark

[Enthusiast]

13. I like JA Jance.

I'm reading Under the Dome by Stephen King.

[old mark]

16. I really like Steve King,and I think everything he wrote since "Bag of Bones" is

a real improvement over his older stuff...although I like most of that, too!

mark

[Enthusiast]

18. Yeah, I was working midnight

shift as a night watchman in an old dark factory completely alone when I read Bag of Bones. The hair would stand up on my arms, LOL.

[CrawlingChaos]

7. "Into the Forest" by Jean Hegland (n/t)

[Phentex]

32. Read that years ago and enjoyed it...

it's a story I've never forgotten. What do you think so far?

[Sisaruus]

8. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Loving the 4-day weekend - so many books to be read.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

9. Roger Ebert The Great Movies III

[ccharles000]

10. ...

Tonight I finished The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie it was really good.

[Kali]

11. something my son left out on the table

I Love It When You Talk Retro: Hoochie Coochie, Double Whammy, Drop a Dime, and the Forgotten Origins of American Speech - by Ralph Keyes

[suninvited]

12. Is it good?

I have only read his book "Angela's Ashes", which I absolutely could not put down, and for some reason never read any other books by him. He only wrote a couple, didnt he?

[lumpy]

14. Angela's Ashes was terrific.. Got the movie off Netflix, quite good.

Would like to know more about Teacher Man, also.

[applegrove]

23. I didn't fall into teacher man like I did AA. If you want to read about teaching it is fine.

[applegrove]

22. I didn't like Teacher Man as much as I liked Angela's Ashes. And I never read 'tis because

some reviewer said 'twas not as good as Angela's Ashes

[Graybeard]

15. Charlie Chan by Yunte Huang

Subtitled: The untold story of the honorable detective and his rendezvous with American history.

Chang Apana the real life Honolulu detective. Earl Derr Biggers, author of the Charlie Chan stories. The Hollywood studios and actors who made the movies (44+ films).

[JitterbugPerfume]

17. Mark Twains autobiography

It is slow going because I haven't had much reading time lately ,but it is really fascinating.


Frank McCourt is a treasure.

[timtom]

19. I somehow got into Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden series.

Much more fun than S. King (IMHO).

Right now I'm in the middle of "Death Masks"

Harry Dresden is a wizard who functions as a private investigator, inspiring the respect of almost no-one.

[Aristus]

20. The Victors by Stephen Ambrose.

'Eisenhower and his boys: The men of World War II.'

Excellent read, as are all of Ambrose's books.

[Bossy Monkey]

21. It's a good one; you'll enjoy it. I've quit reading to start writing

(hopefully).

[Puzzledtraveller]

24. trapped inside

Anais Nin's A Spy in the House of Love

[Graybeard]

25. Welcome to DU.

And congrats on your first post.

:hi:

[applegrove]

29. Yes, Welcome to the DU!

:hi:

[prc73450]

26. the god delusion

[Graybeard]

28. Welcome to DU.

:hi:

[prc73450]

27. double post

[clyrc]

30. I'm halfway through "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell

I love it, so far.

[clyrc]

31. I'm halfway through "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell

I love it, so far

[IcyPeas]

33. just started Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. so far, so good.

[Old Troop]

34. "A World Lit Only by Fire" by William Manchester

[Demoiselle]

35. "The Warmth of Other Suns" by Isabel Wilkerson.

It's the history of the migration of African Americans away from the Jim Crow South to the North and West from roughly 1914 to 1970.
Really very sad and stirring in turn. She gives us both the sweeping overall story and the stories of a handful of individual families as well.

[Odin2005]

36. A grammar of Ojibwe.