Seeing as how we now have a few more readers than, well, zero, I wanted to try my first ?open thread.? This one is topic-specific and might also become another recurring feature, asking a simple question: What are you reading? (Aside from this blog, of course.)
It?s a natural question for this blog. After all, just take a look where literacy.gov leads you.
At the risk of offending the disclaimer gods, I?ll caveat this whole exercise by saying that any book that I or anyone else may or may not be reading in no ways constitutes an endorsement of particular books. (There are tens of millions of great tomes here; come read a few, if you can.) If there are any other lawyers about, feel free to add a few more disclaimers of your own.
Now that that?s out of the way ?
Between all of my online and offline reading of periodicals and such, I don?t get as much time to read for pleasure as I?d like. (Is that heresy, or what?) But a few days ago, I came by a copy of Michael Beschloss?s new book, ?Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789-1989.?
What are others reading, and what do you think about it? And please be patient if your comments aren?t posted immediately.
I am reading ‘you shall know our velocity’ by Dave Eggers… what a great book!
I read a couple on the go. I recommend ‘Shantaram” by Gregory David Roberts – it’s a true story that’s a thriller.
And “A Short History Of Nearly Everything” by Bill Bryson. Which is a ‘rough’ guide to science.
Both are Australian Authors.
I’ve also got the “4 Hour Work Week” by Tim Ferriss – harder to get into, as I work a lot more than 4 hours a week.
I usually have several books on the go at once, but list here only those I’ve recently read by my choice as opposed to those I read as part of my degree requirements. I just finished rereading Bill Bryson’s “Neither Here nor There” (btw Mark, he was born in Des Moines and currently lives in the UK) – always a lot of fun to read. I recommend “The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid” to anyone who grew up in the 1950s.
I’m presently working my way through Richard Dawkin’s “The God Delusion” and when I tire of that effort, Raymond Chandler’s “The Long Goodbye.” It seems I go through a binge of rereading Chandler every three years or so – never seem to tire of his imagery.
I’m currently reading “The Grape brotherhood”, the best novel of one of the greatest american writer, John Fante. I’m reading the italian translation of the book, of course!
I’m working my way through some of the great American authors right now. Hemingway and Faulkner both paint pictures of an American bygone era that fascinates me.
I just finished a really outstanding novel. It was intelligent, witty, highly unusual, beautifully written, and a page-turner. It’s called The Master Planets, authored by Donald Gallinger.
In the closing weeks of 2008 I read both “From a College Window” by Arthur Christopher Benson, and “Iron Toothpick – A Thru-Hiker Reveals Life, Legends and Oddities Along the Appalachian Trail” by Andy Harrah.
And here in the opening of 2009 I’m reading “John Adams” by David McCullough.
Very nice Dallas Cowboys information. I hope to be in Dallas for a game this fall.
still open?