Anonymous
Post 05/05/2014 02:34     Subject: What are you reading right now?
The Fantastic Imagination: An Anthology of High Fantasy edited by Robert H Boyer and Kenneth Zahorski. It has one of my favorite all time stories in it "Come Lady Death" by Peter Beagle (who wrote The Last Unicorn)

And also, The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe.
Anonymous
Post 05/04/2014 22:00     Subject: What are you reading right now?
If you like Far Pavilions, have you read A Suitable Boy?

I just finished Where'd You Go, Bernadette? and Love, Nina.
Anonymous
Post 05/04/2014 21:57     Subject: What are you reading right now?
Tea time for the Firefly, a historical fiction novel set on tea plantations in Colonial India. I'm enjoying it, though not as much as The Far Pavilions, which I feel compelled to revisit every couple of years.
Anonymous
Post 05/04/2014 18:56     Subject: What are you reading right now?
I just finished The Interestings. I couldn't get past my dislike of the main character and how poorly fleshed out some of the secondary characters are.

It paled in comparison the The Goldfinch, which was fantastic.

Anonymous
Post 05/04/2014 17:50     Subject: What are you reading right now?
Michael Connelly's "The Overlook".
Anonymous
Post 05/04/2014 15:01     Subject: What are you reading right now?
Jonathan Kellerman is married to Faye Kellerman and they're both writers.

Faye has a series of books about Christopher Donatti and his son Gabe Whitman - I go through those like nothing else. LOVE them!
Anonymous
Post 05/04/2014 14:55     Subject: What are you reading right now?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I just began reading a biography of Hedy Lamarr, "Hedy's Folly." I have always wanted to learn more about her. She was a beautiful actress who was an inventor as a hobby. She invented a technique for frequency hopping that is the precursor for modern WiFi and other internet communications.


I read reviews of this and put it on my to-read list. How is it?

So far, so good! It is kind of rushing through her early years, but the main focus of the book is supposed to be the story of her as an inventor, so I think it is covering the early years so quickly on purpose.
Anonymous
Post 05/04/2014 13:19     Subject: What are you reading right now?
I just finished The Burgess Boys. Good but not at the level of Olive Kitteridge, I thought.

Now I am re-reading Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner. Next up is The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud.
Anonymous
Post 05/04/2014 13:15     Subject: What are you reading right now?
Anonymous wrote:I just began reading a biography of Hedy Lamarr, "Hedy's Folly." I have always wanted to learn more about her. She was a beautiful actress who was an inventor as a hobby. She invented a technique for frequency hopping that is the precursor for modern WiFi and other internet communications.


I read reviews of this and put it on my to-read list. How is it?
Anonymous
Post 05/04/2014 12:52     Subject: What are you reading right now?

"When Everything Changed: the Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present"

Gail Collins, 2009.

Interesting. I'm from Europe, and not that generation, so I didn't know all this. It makes a nice change from my usual Agatha Christies and Bill Bryson
Anonymous
Post 05/04/2014 12:46     Subject: What are you reading right now?
Anonymous wrote:Assholes: A Theory

It's awesome. Very funny. But also strong analysis.


speaking of funny I just read Stupid Shit my Dad says and I suck at Girls-so funny.
Anonymous
Post 05/04/2014 07:42     Subject: What are you reading right now?
"World Without End", the sort-of-sequel to "Pillars of the Earth". I love those historical fiction type books.
Anonymous
Post 05/04/2014 07:16     Subject: What are you reading right now?
Five Days at Memorial. An account of Hurricane Katrina from the hospital, Memorial.
Anonymous
Post 05/04/2014 07:11     Subject: What are you reading right now?
Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets.
Anonymous
Post 05/04/2014 06:27     Subject: Re:What are you reading right now?
Me before you by jojo moyes