What book are YOU reading?!?!

I just wanted to see who out there is reading. I LOVE reading. I usually do it right before I go to sleep at night and it is SO relaxing. So I am just curious of what kinda good books are out there... Tell me what book you are reading or have already read that is really good? What's it about?!?!

I really like those quirky non-fiction books. My favorites are:

How to be a Grown Up. Things You Need to be Told: a handbook for polite behavior in a tacky, rude world! I Love Everybody (And Other Atrocious Lies). The Reluctant Metrosexual. Teen Angst...Naah.

 Those are the good ones that come right to mind!

Terry Prachett's Fifth Elephant. Ever since I found out he has Alzheimer?s, I have decided to reread all the disc world books. I love the characters in them. Anyone who reads Disc World will understand that it is quite hard to describe what they are actually about, they are extremely "crazy" books... but the characters in them are written to perfection. Samuel Vimes and Havelock Vetinari my favourite characters (especially when they have to interact). Brilliant. It will be a sad day when Pratchett can no longer write because of his disease.

All fantasy lovers have to read Mickey Zucker Reicherts Renshai trilogy. Seriously, it is amazing if you love traditional sword/warriors/wizards fantasy.

Currently: Nourishing traditions : the cookbook that challenges politically correct nutrition and the diet dictocrats by Sally Fallon

"The Pillars of the Earth" - by Ken Follett.

It was recommended to me by a friend.  If any of you care, it is part of the Oprah book club.  i didn't know that, and frankly, I don't care...but it is a very good book.  It's not light reading though.

How Soccer Explains the World - Franklin Foer

it's fantastic. 

Eric Carle's ABC ~ Eric Carle

My daughter loves it! She can't get enough!

 

Original Post by dinarly:

Currently: Nourishing traditions : the cookbook that challenges politically correct nutrition and the diet dictocrats by Sally Fallon

Hey! How do you like that? There are a lot of NT People here: http://www.mothering.com/discussions/forumdis play.php?f=365

I don't know how I feel about it other than apathetic... what do you think?

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs ( it is for a history class) but I recently read The Kite Runner which was awesome.

I finished a book called bottle rocket hearts which I would definatly reccommend a couple weeks ago. Finally got around to reading catcher in the rye last week, its been sitting on my shelf for so long. Now im on to lullibies for little criminals, just started it yesterday.

I just finished A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens and now I'm going to bed.  I don't know yet what I'll read next.

spanish phonetics :(

I was thinking today on the bus how I would KILL to read another book for leisure. Oh well, guess its not happening until spring break!

Moby Dick, I hadn't read it in about 10 years and I'm on a classics kick right now.

I just read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.

And right now I'm reading through all of my recent National Geographic magazines. 

Well, I am currently reading my psychology book, but if I actually had a choice I would probably be reading Finding Alice, by Melody Carlson.

To Kill a Mockingbird. I read it years ago and I decided to pick it up again because I loved it then and I still love it!

Powder Wars - Paul grimes

 

The supergrass who brought down the biggest drug barron ever all based in Liverpool like its an amazing reading if you like to read about gansters, drugs, violence etc.

 

 

I am reading two books right now:

1) What is the What, by dave eggers. It is the heart-wrenching story of a child refugee from the Sudanese civil war, a boy who lost both parents, walked a few hundred miles through savana & desert to a refugee camp in ethiopia, hiding from soldiers and lions, searching for food, etc. The boy eventually makes it to the usa and is having a difficult time adjusting. It is a fairly easy read, it is engrossing and educational. I had been unaware that the civil war in sudan was an arab/aboriginal conflict, that it has somewhat to do with oil, that slavery is a common contemporary practice, etc.

2) Autonauts of the Cosmoroute, by Julio Cortazar & Carol Dunlop. Nonfictuion. A travellogue and love story complete with snapshots and drawings. A husband and wife (julio and carol, both authors) take a ten-hour road trip down a freeway in france and stretch the trip into a 33-day adventure by stopping at each of the 65 rest stops and camping at every other one. They discover the hidden side of the freeway. The book is playful and happy. I think the book has inspired me to write my own travelogue.

I have read thru every one else's list of books. I have recently read some on the lists and have some comments: moby dick (loved reading it this time. I attempted to read it as a teenager but wasn't patient enuff), to kill a mockingbird (very good. After reading it, I watched the gregory peck movie of the same title. Gregory peck is a perfect atticus finch. He seems to have a halo of light on him at all times, and his seersucker suit is perfect. Never a wrinkle, depite the opressive heat and humidity), and the Kite Runner. I hated the Kite Runner. It was way too perfect of an ending for me. His childhood nemesis ends up being a pedophile, a rapist and a religious leader, an islamic extremist and a drug user? Come on already. Why don't you put a hitler mustache on him and have him speak with a lisp just to round out the charcter a little more. And then the ending was so perfectly matched to a childhood encounter. I don't think there was a single remaining loose end, anything left that wasn't tied down, or any point that he tried to make that he didn't hit me over the head with again and again. Did I say I hated it?

Yesterday my friend Michelle, who also happens to be my neighbor, loaned me "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World" by Michael Pollan. It touches on the four basic human desires- Sweetness, Beauty, Intoxication, Control. It ascribes the history of 4 specific plants [apples, tulips, marijuana, and potatoes] to illustrate the complex, reciprocal relationship between humans and the natural world, and reveals how these species have successfully exploited human desires to flourish.

I am just starting the book today, but it promises to be a deep and fascinating read!

Original Post by meat_pillow:

 moby dick (loved reading it this time. I attempted to read it as a teenager but wasn't patient enuff)

Yeah, when I read it 10 years ago I was 16... I didn't really see the hype about it the first time around because everyone I knew who had read it was gushing about how good it was. Sorta like when people tell me I'll like a movie, I almost never do!

I'm happy that I decided to revisit it, because so far I love it.

Lexa, I'm going to have to look for that book, it sounds like something I'd like (har har).

Yeah! Botony of desire! I read the section about marijuana. It was fascinating. I also read Polan's "omnivore's dilemma" which expands on the same theory that plants use humans to better themselves. They are very agressive. Passively agressive, but agressive.

By the way, Omnivore's Dilemma changed the way I shop for food. It was such a good book.