What you reading tonight DU? Me, I just starting "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim

[applegrove]

Edwards.

[jcboon]

1. Studs Terkel

"Will the Circle be Unbroken"

[seabeyond]

2. one magic moment. lynn kurland series. nt

[murielm99]

3. I read that one.

Tragic.

[applegrove]

7. I just realized that I have read it years ago. Doesn't matter. I've forgotten it all

and seem to remember I liked it. So I'll read it again.

[clyrc]

4. "The Tribal Imagination" by Robin Fox

and I just started "Life and Death of Democracy" by John Keane.

[denbot]

5. Sixty One Nails, Mike Shevdon

I been on a Urban Fantasy kick..

The last couple of books were by Tim Waggoner

Nekropolis, then Dead Streets both are about a Zombie P.I.

:eyes:

[murielm99]

16. Does the zombie p.i. bring a sack lunch to work?

I wonder what is in it.

[Brother Buzz]

6. I've been on an eclectic history kick lately: Manifest Destiny and its many nuances

thanks to Interlibrary loans, I'm landing some great books, with more on the way.

I'm just finishing up an obscure title: William Wolfskill, 1798-1866: Frontier Trapper to California Ranchero.

[femmocrat]

8. "World Without End" by Ken Follett

I can't put it down! It is the sequel to Pillars of the Earth.

[murielm99]

9. I didn't know there was a sequel.

Now I will have to reread the first and read the second.

I was going to read a Bob the Nailer book, but my husband stole it while I was on the phone.

[femmocrat]

14. No need to re-read the first one....

It's a different story with a cast of descendants from Tom Builder, etc. Same town and setting of Kingsbridge.

I am going to get the set of CDs of "Pillars of the Earth" from Netflix just to refresh my memory. I read it two years ago.

What is Bob the Nailer?

[murielm99]

Books by Stephen Hunter

Point of Impact, Dirty White Boys, Black Light, Time to Hunt, and others.

He is a Vietnam vet, a sniper. The books are very violent and very engrossing. The author knows a lot about guns. Strange, for a former movie critic.

[mainstreetonce]

10. That is a great one

The Memory Keeper's Daughter was great and they made a TV movie on Hallmark channel that was well done.

Another great one..........A Reliable Wife Robert Goolrick

[ashling]

11. Ratification: Americans Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 by Pauline Maier

[hifiguy]

12. A twofer

Anthony Sampson's "Mandela" and Ed Cray's bio of Earl Warren, "Chief Justice".

[kick-ass-bob]

13. I will probably be ridiculed for this, but...

my exchange student daughter asked me if she bought the book, would I read Twilight? I said, sure, I'll start anything, so she did.

So, I am reading Twilight (the 1st one). I should be done by the middle of next week if it's engaging enough.

[PRETZEL]

15. Well I figured what the hell,

Frank Bailey's "Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin"

[Bunny]

17. I just picked up a coupla books for my Nook Color.

The Plague Years, and The Winter Sea. I don't know which one I'll read first.

[gratuitous]

18. "He Who Whispers" John Dickson Carr

Sharpen your attention to detail.

[libodem]

19. Loved that book

I'm reading The Year Of The Flood by Margaret Atwood. Very strange.

[DFW]

20. I will be reading "Wine All Mine"--again-- until I get it 100% right

I just found I needed to make a minor adjustment with the dialogue with Thomas Jefferson.

But I WILL get this right!!!!!

[Raffi Ella]

21. I'm reading Portrait of a Marriage

It's about the life and times of Vita SackVille-West and her Husband Harold Nicholson. Fascinating story and beautifully written. I am really enjoying it.

[stuntcat]

22. Jazz, Genius, And Jail

by Elaine Poole, the wife of drummer John Poole. It's mostly about Anita O'Day, and a lot about John and also about drummer Gene Krupa.

[pamela]

23. I read "The Memory Keeper's Daughter."

Are you enjoying it? I really liked it. She has a new book out that I've been planning to read.

I just finished "The Help" and before that I read "The Glass Castle." I enjoyed both very much but "The Glass Castle" was particularly good.

[applegrove]

25. Yes I read all three of those. I liked them very much though the glass castle was

harrowing. I just realized I had read the Memory Keeper's Daughter before but also remember that I liked it very much so I will keep reading.

[Old Troop]

24. Personal Memoirs of US Grant.

Surprisingly engaging and readable. Of particular interest is his vociferous condemnation of the Mexican War as illegal, immoral and, likely, a major contributor to the Civil War. It's unbelievable to realize that a former president had to write a book on his death bed to earn money so his family wouldn't be paupers after his death.

[trof]

26. "The Black Ice" - Michael Connelly

I'm on an L.A. detective Harry Bosch roll.
Love police procedurals.
:-)

[Sisaruus]

27. The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle by Sara Wheeler

[csziggy]

28. Getting ready to start "The Man Who Would Be King" by Ben Mcintyre

I just got a biography of the first American in Afghanistan - Joshua Harlan. I happened on it because he was a distant relative. Harlan was born a Quaker in 1799 in Pennsylvania. He went to Afghanistan as a young man for adventure and fortune. His time in Afghanistan inspired Rudyard Kipling to write "The Man Who Would Be King" - the biography of Joshua Harlan was written by Ben Mcintyre and is titled "The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan".

Joshua Harlan left Afghanistan after the arrival of the British army in Kabul and lived out his life in San Francisco.

Reviews of the book:
http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2004_05_002048.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/books/a-yankee-in-the...

[one_voice]

29. Blind Allegiance...

to Sarah Palin by Frank Baily. I admit it, I was curious. :blush:

[PRETZEL]

31. That was part of the reason for me also,

plus it was 30% off so I figured why not,

I'm about a third of the way through, getting ready to start TrooperGate.

So far, it's been what I expected,

[Beaverhausen]

30. 'Just Kids' by Patti Smith - excellent!

[bikebloke]

32. Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff

True story. WWII. Survivors of air crash in Papau New Guinea.