What are you reading right now?

I’m reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

Deadman Switch by Timothy Zahn
Mr. X by Peter Straub
vN by Madeline Ashby
Gorbachev by Mikhail Gorbachev
Adventures among Ants by Mark Moffett

and expect to start Iron Council by China Mieville tonight.

Death of a Dissident by Alex Goldfarb.

Microwave Journal, Tackling Satellite Interference by Martin Coleman

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, a book recommended to me by one of my favorite jellies that hasn’t been on for over 6 months.

The Chemistry of Tears (the name alone compels me)

A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Both for fun :)

I have three books on the go.

For pure pleasure – The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett.

For work but also because these are both strong areas of interest for me -

The Fatal Shore: The epic of Australia’s founding by Robert Hughes (who died recently sadly).

The Rise of the Fifth Estate: Social media and blogging in Australian politics by Greg Jericho.

Got two books on the go, Seven Years In Tibet finding this difficult because, for one I find it either badly written or badly translated into English but it was a gift from my father in law who is currently in Laos I think so need to get it read for the big discussion when he gets back.

and Zima Blue which I’ve only just started but having read several Alistair Reynolds novels I’m looking forward to his short story side.

Currently in progress:
The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
Harvard Yard, by William Martin (will finish today)
Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages, by Ammon Shea
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion: A New Abridgement from the Second and Third Editions, by Sir James George Frazer

About to start:
The First Rule of Ten, by Gay Hendricks
or
Eifelheim, by Michael Flynn
or
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, by Neil Gabler

Dune for work lunches, a Myst tie-in novel for home, and Citizen of the Galaxy for bathroom reading. I keep an emergency stash of Discworld novels (The Last Continent and Interesting Times) in the glove compartment, along with my emergency stash of gloves.

Thanks to my lovely g/f (who I now share a Kindle), this is what I have to look forward to. This is all stuff on her Kindle:

Forks Over Knives-The Cookbook: Over 300 Recipes for Plant-Based Eating All Through the Year
Sroufe, Del

Throttle (Kindle Single)
Hill, Joe, King, Stephen

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel
Joyce, Rachel

Telegraph Avenue: The Enhanced Promo Single (Kindle Edition with Audio/Video)
Chabon, Michael

The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Shakespeare, William

The Economist – US Edition subscription
The Economist

Leaves of Grass
Whitman, Walt

Free Beer – Kicks & Truth with Jack Kerouac & other strong drinks
Anderson, Cliff, Anstee, Rod, Kerouac,

Selected 19th Century French Poetry, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Gautier, deLisle, Heredia
Gautier, Theophile, Rimbaud, Arthur, Baudelaire, Charles, de Lisle, Leonte, de Herida, Jose Maria

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Kleon, Austin

The War of Art
Pressfield, Steven

Reclaim Your Dreams – An Uncommon Guide to Living On Your Own Terms
Mead, Jonathan

The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World
Guillebeau, Chris

The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
Guillebeau, Chris

The Wind Through the Keyhole (Dark Tower)
King, Stephen

Just Kids
Smith, Patti

The Road to the Dark Tower: Exploring Stephen King’s Magnum Opus
Vincent, Bev

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: 8 Secondary Characters from The Dark Tower Series
Vincent, Bev

Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: A Concordance, Volume II: 2
King, Stephen, Furth, Robin

Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: A Concordance, Volume I
King, Stephen, Furth, Robin

UC_The Drawing of the Three: (The Dark Tower #2)
King, Stephen

The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The 1999, 3rd Edition
Edwards, Betty

Wild (From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail)
Strayed, Cheryl

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Duhigg, Charles

Imagine: How Creativity Works
Lehrer, Jonah

Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe
Berman, Bob, Lanza, Robert

Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
Bayles, David, Orland, Ted

The Artist’s Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love
Battenfield, Jackie

ART/WORK
Bhandari, Heather Darcy, Melber, Jonathan

The Artist’s Tao- 44 Principles for an Artist’s Life
Starr, Sean

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
King, Stephen

Seven Days in the Art World
Thornton, Sarah

The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan
Shea, Robert

How to Open a Coffee Shop – Cash in on This Ever Brewing Market! **Exclusive**
Floyd, Rex

Nick Adams Stories
Hemingway, Ernest

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, We
Campbell, T. Colin, Thomas M. Campbell II

Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health
Stone, Gene

Schrodinger’s Cat Trilogy: The Universe Next Door, The Trick Top Hat, & The Homing Pigeons
Wilson, Robert Anton

The Fountainhead
Rand, Ayn

We the Living
Rand, Ayn

Atlas Shrugged: (Centennial Edition)
Rand, Ayn

Anthem
Rand, Ayn

The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art
Various

The Artist’s Way
Cameron, Julia

(Yay!!!!)

I have a bunch of books I reading but if you want a challenge try August 1914, by Alexander Solzhenitsym. Wow, what imagery.

“Chinese Military Doctrine, and its repercussions” by Yours Truly (editing my MA before the exam)

Night Shift-Stephen King

Phantom ~ Ted Bell

I just finished Savages by Don Winslow. I am considering picking up the prequel Kings of Cool but class started this week and I don’t think I’ll have time for a while.

Fall of Giants by Ken Follett. It’s for a book group.

@Mama_Cakes: What of those, if any, are you reading now?

The Communist Manifesto and Economics in One Lesson (@CWOTUS recommended it to me!)

I’ve also got Of Wolves and Men in progress but I only pick it up irregularly.

@jca Just the two that I mentioned in the details of my question.

@Adirondackwannabe I hadn’t heard of that one. But I did read Cancer Ward a few years back and have The Gulag Archipelago waiting for my attention. Easy never describes Solzhenitsyn, but he is a really rewarding read.

@fundevogel It’s amazing. It’s about World War 1 on the Eastern front. I could spend days on the first page. It’s so so vivid.

Blessings by Anna Quindlen. It’s starting out slow, but I’m gonna stick with it for awhile.

Just finished Beachcombers by Nancy Thayer, which I loved. I’ve read a bunch of her stuff, and all of it is very different from each of her other books. I was floored when I read her An Act of Love after having read her entire Hot Flash Series (this is the first one). I thought they could not have been written by the same author. So far, have appreciated everything she has written, although Act of Love was rather emotionally disturbing.

Are Your Prescriptions Killing You? by Armon Neel

Making Money by Terry Pratchett

“The Tempest” by Shakespeare

“Les Fleurs du Mal” by Charles Baudelaire

I am interested in reading “Just Kids.”

I started David Copperfield by Charles Dickens a few hours ago.

I just finished Ashes to Dust by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Echo Burning by Lee Child. Now I am reading Murder on the Mind by L.L. Bartlett and Further: Beyond the Threshold by Chris Roberson.

11/22/63 by Stephen King

the Autobiography of Mark Twain

4 versions of The Bible.

and I need to finish the former before the Seal Team Six book comes out, which I have to finish before the new JK Rowling book comes out.

Magritte by A.M.Hammacher I love the insight it gives into his creative process. The book has some pictures of his work that I’ve never seen before.

I am reading The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks, a neurologist detailing some of his most fantastic encounters.

@Mariah That’s a great book! I have Musicophilia but I haven’t gotten very far into it yet. So far, so good.

@FutureMemory I am obsessed with Charles Dickens!

After you read the book, rent this movie Version with Daniel Radcliffe and Maggie Smith (who teamed up in Harry Potter). It’s very good : )

@Kardamom Thank you for the recommendation! I’ll definitely check it out :)

The Call of The Weird by Louis Theroux

@Bellatrix, I have Hughes’ The Fatal Shore on my shelves, but haven’t gotten around to reading it yet! Let me know if it’s worth prioritizing on my to-read list. :)

I usually rotate between three or four books, but right now I’m reading Lao Tzu’s The Art of War (trans. Griffith) for my book club, and still making my way through Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel, a book I’ve been meaning to read for years. It’s a very good book, but far more complex than most of the books I read, so it’ll probably be something I re-read, so I can fully absorb the arguments he’s making.

I also always maintain a backlog of magazines, mostly Smithsonian and National Geographic, that get pushed aside by books. My goal is try to to exhaust that stack, someday!

This book. A total twilight zone for me. (eyes crossed, head spinning)

“The Discovery of France,” by Graham Robb.

The author cycled 14,000 miles around the country and discovered odd bits of recent history, such as peasants who walked around on stilts, often while knitting, and 16 different ways of saying “yes.”

http://robertarood.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/the-discovery-of-france-revisited-and-concluded-with-a-sense-of-wonder/

Just picked up Carpet Burns My Life with the Inspiral Carpets by Tom Hingley especially looking forward to this as I know the guy, looking forward to discussing it with him next weekend.

Just read a book by one of my favorite authors from years back—Cynthia Voigt. I thought I had read all of her books but then found When She Hollers

Intense and raw story.