BOOKS: What are you reading?

[journo25]

Just finished David Sedaris' latest collection of essays, "Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls."

 

[Irish Queer]

American Psycho.

 

[Alnitak]

How to Win Friends & Influence People

 

[luckynumbah7]

Double posted, my apologies. If a moderator sees this, please delete and thank you!

 

[luckynumbah7]

Hmm, I'm really loving The Dark Tower series and am now on book three The Wastelands I'm getting through these very quickly.

I adore that series. You might also want to read his other books, there's 'easter eggs', for lack of a better term, throughout all his books. And some of the characters cross worlds. Books that are chock full of that are, lessee, The Stand, It, The Talisman, Black House, Needful Things. Damn near all his novels mention something, but those are, to my mind, full of eggs. I'm currently rereading Drawing of the Three. You'll have a much harder time reading fast when it gets to Wizard and Glass, I assure you

 

[Irish Queer]

The Hobbit.

 

[palbert]

Santosuosso, Barbarians, Marauders, and Infidels. Westview Press 2004.

Warfare from Attila through the Middle Ages.

 

[JackinSea]

"Hitch 22" -- autobiography of the late Christopher Hitchens, in which he readily admits to his same sex fooling around when younger (sounds like he was a Kinsey 2).

 

[TickTockMan]

Blood on the Tongue by Stephen Booth.


It is book three of the British Cooper/Fry crime novels.

 

[DCRacer]

about to dive into

'Close to Shore'

 

[JackinSea]

Yesterday, I finished The Road Home by Michael Thomas Ford. A bit over the top in places, but at least it's a book largely populated with gay men whom I can relate to as being realistic characters, and not all about the shallow pursuit of "hotties" as it were.

 

[palbert]

Just started Fleming, Operation Sea Lord, Simon & Schuster, 1957, found in a used book store:

The projected invasion of England in 1940 -- An account of the German preparations and the British countermeasures

A generally untreated part of WWII.

 

[ravenstar]

Stephen King On Writing

 

[Thad1527]

I finished Twisted by Jonathan Kellerman. He writes reliably good suspense novels set in Los Angeles (usually...sometimes he'll switch things up). Here's a spoiler (if you've read the book, you'll laugh!)...

I did it. (highlight to read)

 

[palbert]

TUDOR, by Leanda de Lisle. Public Affairs Books 2013.

The story of the Tudors' reigns from before the Battle of Bosworth through to the Stuarts.

 

[hanzosword]

I love, love, love the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice and so I'm reading Blackwood Farm. I love how Anne Rice is like a bisexual man in a woman's body lol. I' saw Eye of the World was the first of a popular book series written by a man from Charleston, SC which is about 1 hour from me so I'm reading that now too.

 

[dereperez]

Currently reading "The Quiet Twin" by Dan Vyleta.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Quiet-Twin-A-Novel/dp/1608198081

 

[Alnitak]

The Anglo-Saxon Library

 

[cubbybear01]

Unfortunately grad school hasn't left me with much time to read anything besides research papers and textbooks. However I won a $25 dollar gift card to the campus bookstore last week. I decided to spend it on this:

http://www.amazon.com/Wonderbook-Il...&sr=8-1&keywords=wonderbook#reader_1419704427

From what I have managed to read of The Wonderbook it is a fantastic and humorous how-to Bible for aspiring fiction writers with essays from some of the biggest names in fiction. I am a very visual learner and the illustrations and diagrams used in the book are fantastic and entertaining.

 

[Vivi29]

I read The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud, I love the sarcastic wit of the main character a Djinn called Bartimaeus, it's told in first-person from his viewpoint for most of the book.

That Wonderbook sounds like exactly the sort of thing I should read cubbybear01, it'll help with my own writing.