What are you reading the week of April 10, 2011?

[DUgosh]

Web of Evil by J. A. Jance (Ali Reynolds book #2)

[mike_c]

1. fiction: Surface Detail, by Iain Banks....

Non-fiction: Our Underachieving Colleges by Derek Bok

[Ed Suspicious]

2. Which Side are You On: Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back

http://www.amazon.com/Which-Side-Are-You-Revised/dp/1565848861

[katanalori]

3. non-fiction - written by a DUer!

Excellent! Got my copy a few days ago - it is well-researched and thorough - "State Names."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=209x9083

[riverbendviewgal]

4. Rainbow Pie

by Joe Bageant....He is John Steinbeck and Will Rogers. I should say was as he died last month. He is a powerful writer.
This book is about his growing up in the West Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains. I learned a lot more history reading this book.

[pscot]

5. Zodiac, by Neal Stephenson

A ripping yarn about the battle between environmental commandos and corporate polluters.

[The Philosopher]

6. Two-fer

On the Road: The Original Scrolls - Jack Kerouac (more for the essays in the beginning)
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (to compare to Giovanni's Room)

[JitterbugPerfume]

10. On The Road

is literary Jazz! Kerouac is an artist, and he plays it well.

I love that book.

Hemingway--not so much

[The Philosopher]

11. I'm not a fan of Hemingway, either.

But there's something about him that I find interesting, which Kerouac has in common: the image of the writer. With Hemingway, there's that image of someone visiting different places, hitting the bars and cafes, seeing these great events, and then writing about them. With Kerouac it's the same, traveling across America, into Mexico, and cetera, writing down what happens to him; both writers trying to craft their work into something literary rather than journalistic or simple autobiography.

[fadedrose]

7. THREE SISTERS by James D. Doss

My second reading of this book, and it's better the 2nd time...

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Book 28

[fadedrose]

13. A smile that won't go away....

Me: Daisy is worried that enough people won't come to her funeral..

Daisy thinking:
..more than come to Sally Sweetwater's, I bet....

DOSS: "..a certain mending of the ways might be in order."

Daisy thinking:
Starting right now, I'm going to be a lot nicer to people. And that goes for every single person I know. Even the ones that ain't worth a thimble full of spit. No matter what those bone heads do to make me mad, I won't have a mean word to say about one of 'em.

DOSS: "These uplifting thoughts were interupted by...."

[KC]

8. The Walk

by Richard Paul Evans

[JitterbugPerfume]

9. The years of Rice and Salt

by Kim Stanley Robinson

a complicated and fascinating book about a group of people and their experiences through multiple reincarnations. I highly recommend it .

[hippywife]

12. Non-fiction:The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.

An enthralling read for non-fiction. :hi:

http://rebeccaskloot.com/the-immortal-life/

[fishwax]

14. Just finished A Rage in Harlem, by Chester Himes

aka For Love of Imabelle

[ceile]

15. "Black Betty" Walter Mosley

And I can't put it down. I got his latest ("Last Days of Ptolemy Grey") for my mom for xmas and she just raved about it. Since I like any and all mysteries, I thought I'd read something from his Easy Rawlins series. Love it! Can't wait to get "Devil in a Blue Dress"- won a Golden Dagger for that one...

[The Roux Comes First]

16. The General's Daughter - DeMille and

Growing, Older - Gussow, non-fiction.

#'s 29 and 30

[SheilaT]

17. Full Dark, No Stars

by Stephen King.

[fadedrose]

18. ULTIMATUM by Matthew Glass

Just started this and haven't read enough of it to know whether I'll like it or not....am on page 36...













Book 29

[fadedrose]

22. Will have to finish reading this later

I have 4 books that are due BEFORE this one, and three of these have alrady been renewed once, and the 4th is a new one that can't be renewed..

[Mudoria]

19. Reaper's Gate: Book 7 of th Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson

[Curmudgeoness]

20. American Taliban by Pearl Abraham. At least I am trying to read it.

[AngryOldDem]

21. Coming Back to Me by Caroline Leavitt.

Sigh. Good book, but a very sad plotline, at least so far.

[fadedrose]

23. THE PRESIDENT'S ASSASSIN by Brian Haig

A favorite author....











Book 30

[Fire Walk With Me]

24. Stars and Gods by Larry Niven. I am disturbed by his multiple kudos to Ronald Reagan.

Sickening. This is the same Reagan who mocked the American people to their faces for what, fifteen straight minutes during his Iran/Contra (non)Apology speech. Much less his entire "administration". How fitting that one of the air traffic controllers who recently nodded off did so at Reagan Airport, considering what Reagan did to the Union and what the Repubs have been working to do to unions and the middle class ever since.

Fuck Ronald Reagan and his handlers. How insipid to find such over and over in a single place from someone I'd once thought a superior thinker. Especially after how many years of hindsight has been possible for him regarding Reagan?