What are you reading?

[gretel]

The Wise Heart, A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology, by Jack Kornfield. The Abhidhamma made somewhat accessible and with lots of Jack Kornfield stories.

gretel

[Chanchu]

"Ding Hao"

America's Air War in China 1937-1945
By Wanda Cornelius and Thayne Short

Good book- just started it, lots of info about Clair Chennault a real fighting General who did not spend his time thinking about what kind of t-shirts the GI's should wear or designing spiffy uniforms..

A tuff SOB-

RIP Sir!

[Ian]

One Hundred Years of Solitude

cool. I'm reading the general in his labyrinth.

[Darthwing Teorist]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K Dick.

[fuga]

The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile by Noah Lukeman

and

The Temple of the Wild Geese and Bamboo Dolls of Echizen by Tsutomu Mizukami

[fuga]

Just finished Henry Shukman's Lost City - fell apart about halfway through, moving from interesting, introspective and dark to Hollywood.

Put down Raymond Feist's Talon of the Silverhawk after 60 pages. Repetitive, drivel that violates just about every rule of good writing.

So, I am starting Leonard Chang's Underkill which is starting off strong.

[shawnsegler]

Just reread Fire In The Sun by George Alec Effinger. Now I have to go back and read the other two books in the series he wrote before his untimely demise. It's to cry for. They are amazingly good.

[Chanchu]

"Chennault - Giving Wings To The Tiger" by Martha Byrd

Great bio of the #1 Flying Tiger, what a hell of a adventure story! If you like KMT era Chinese history you may enjoy reading this book- its good. Truth stranger than fiction- enough amazing true stories to make 20 great films...

You could not make up a yarn as good as Chennalts real life..

[Mike Strong]

DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL; St. John of The Cross, ( New translation and introduction by Mirabai Starr )


I have recomended this book to people, but I had never read it myself; so I thought I'd better ...


The Foreword by Thomas Moore,and the introduction by Starr are worth reading on your feet at the bookstore, and it's only $14 at Barnes & Nobels.

Starr's translation is meant for people of all faiths, ( and no faith) so I'm digging it. Christians might preferr the two previous translations by E. Allison Peers, and Kieran Kavanaugh with Otilio Rodriguez, but even Catholics and Spanish speakers could find this new English translation more understandable.

I just finished Book 1: Night of Sense in one sitting ...

... I'll read Book2: Night of The Spirit when I get off work today.

[juz]

Everyday-Bill Granger

my pregnant wife craves Bill's food..

[fuga]

Just finished Storm Front by Jim Butcher.

Now picking up Dark Voyage by Alan Furst.

[shawnsegler]

Just finished Storm Front by Jim Butcher.

I wasn't impressed.

It could have been much better than it was, but I guess serviceable is better than horrible.

S- doesn't read much anymore

[Dmitri]

Started re-reading (yet again) the "Hitchhiker's Guide" 5-book trilogy by Mr. Douglas Adams, may he RIP.

[fuga]

Just finished Storm Front by Jim Butcher.

I wasn't impressed.

It could have been much better than it was, but I guess serviceable is better than horrible.

S- doesn't read much anymore

I hear you on that book. It read thin, with the characters never moving beyond stereotypes, no deep digging. I felt like I was reading a poorly plotted mystery novel, but there just happened to be a wizard thrown in as the main character.

I've been reading a lot lately; 4-5 nonfiction books a month, usually while also simultaneously more slowly reading a nonfiction work or two. Once we canceled cable and I got more serious about my own writing, I have been hitting the library once or twice a week (not including the 50 children's books I have checked out at any one time).

Get back on the book wagon! You won't regret it (especially if it means cutting down on TV). It's also fun to try to read what the wife is reading. Amazingly enough she turned me onto Massimo Carlotto which then led me into a spiral of European Noir with Jean Claude Izzo's work rising to the top.

[Wuyizidi]

G. K. Chesterton:

"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected."


Wuyizidi