What are you reading now (October)?

Rowan · Post by **Rowan** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 9:21 am

I just wanted to start this!

I finished Dress Your Family... this weekend. I liked it. Not what I was expecting. I actually read dh a few chapters (he hates reading).

On my library stack to be read are:

Ever Green - Susan Fletcher
Human Capital - Stephen Amidon
A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews

Not sure what I'll start with. They are all new authors to me. Probably will start with Human Capital.

Marie · Post by **Marie** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:46 pm

Nada. I'm moving.

Sílvia · Post by **Sílvia** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:47 pm

I'm reading Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz and The Romantic Movement by Alain de Botton. The former is pure fun, the latter is fun with philosophy. I'm enjoying them both.

mellenhead · Post by **mellenhead** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 3:04 pm

I'm going to start Wicked by Gregory MacGuire tonight.

Other than that I've been reading my Western Civilization textbook.

Stacy · Post by **Stacy** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 3:34 pm

Ummm... stupid books about museums.

Seriously, for my minor field class (Museum history and philosophy), the reading sucks.

Anyway, I am re-reading Les Miserables and lots of books about Mammoths.

Crystal Meth · Post by **Crystal Meth** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 9:48 pm

I posted this in the September topic, but no one replied and I'm still reading them anyway.

I'm reading a book on writing by Margaret Atwood.

And I'm also reading "The Introvert Advantage." I usually hate self-help books, but this one is really helping me!

chickenlittle · Post by **chickenlittle** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:01 pm

I'm about to start The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera.

It's been sitting on my end table for the last few days, but I'm always so exhausted after studying that the thought of reading puts me to sleep

Malanee · Post by **Malanee** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 3:29 pm

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Deadly Decisions by Kathy Reichs
No Logo by Naomi Klein

I'm also still working on Les Miserables...

Crystal Meth · Post by **Crystal Meth** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 9:56 pm

I'm reading a book called "E: A Novel". It's set in a crazy ad agency, and told entirely in e-mails. It is pants-pissingly funny! I was guffawing out loud in a coffee shop today.

Sílvia · Post by **Sílvia** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:24 pm

I'm reading Brick Lane by Monica Ali. It's a bit slow, but it's right up my alley. I'm enjoying it.

Lady Bug · Post by **Lady Bug** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:48 pm

SÃlvia wrote:I'm reading Brick Lane by Monica Ali. It's a bit slow, but it's right up my alley. I'm enjoying it.

Oh wow - that sounds really interesting!

Sílvia · Post by **Sílvia** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 11:26 am

It is, LB, but it's kinda slow. Don't expect too much action. Though right now it's 2001 (the book starts at her birth in 1967 and then goes to 1985) and there's been a lot of tension between muslims and non-muslims in their community, and I'm curious to know what will happen to our hero after September 11th.

Malanee · Post by **Malanee** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 6:49 pm

I'm reading A Girl Named Zippy

It's awesome!

mellenhead · Post by **mellenhead** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:06 pm

I just finished reading A Cook's Tour - In Search of the Perfect Meal by Anthony Bourdain. LOVED IT. He is so hilarious. He traveled the world, subjecting himself to various cultures "specialty" foods, sometimes getting really sick and other times loving it.

He also rags on the other Food Network chefs and about making a cooking tv show. Funny stuff.

I'm right in the middle of Wicked right now and really liking it. Has anyone read any of Gregory's MacGuire's other books - Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister or Son of Witch?

Rowan · Post by **Rowan** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:09 pm

I'm reading the 3rd in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series. I whipped through the first 2 this weekend. Sure its teen reading, but I'm enjoying them.

I have the new Dean Koontz book Velocity waiting to be read but it may need to go back to the library before I start it.

Crystal Meth · Post by **Crystal Meth** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:08 pm

mellen, I've read Wicked, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and Mirror Mirror. I think "Confessions" was my least favourite, but they were all good!