What are you reading the week of April 26, 2009?

[DUgosh]

The Mephisto Club by Tess Gerritsen

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. The Soprano Family Cookbook

No, really. I am. I read cookbooks as if they were novels, cover to cover, when I get them. I got this beauty at alibris.com for five bucks!

And the autobiography of Bobby Kennedy's right-hand man at Justice, Nicholas Katzenbach, "Some Of It Was Fun." It's brilliant.

http://tinyurl.com/ccztpb

[davidpdx]

2. Team of Rivals by Doris Goodwin Kerns

A good read, but very very long and complex. It is interesting to see how Lincoln first met with and interacted the people he ran against for president.

[Mira]

3. James Baldwin "Another Country". trying to catch up on some classics I missed n/t

[Ernesto]

4. "The Man Who Sold America"

My 3rd recent book that debunks the corporate driven mythology of St. Ronnie.
What a piece of fecal matter!

[Ernesto]

10. sorry, I got the title wrong!

Make that: "The Man Who Sold the World"
by William Kleinknecht

[OffWithTheirHeads]

5. Still reading "The Plague" by Albert Camus

Really interesting reading given current events.

The more things change...

[Mira]

6. The quote from it you sent to me still keeps me reeling...n/t

[OffWithTheirHeads]

8. Isn't it so typical of how life gets in the way of love?

nt.

[elocs]

7. "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak.

A very interesting fiction about a young girl growing up in Nazi Germany that is narrated by Death.
I would recommend it.

[JitterbugPerfume]

9. Last time To See by Douglas Adams

and Mark Carwardine

Just like everything else Douglas Adams wrote, it is excellent

[YankeyMCC]

11. "The Naked and the Dead" by Norman Mailer

Also "Zen's Chinese Heritage -- The Masters & Their Teachings" by Andrew Ferguson

[Jim__]

12. The Trouble with Principle - Stanley Fish

The book is relatively old - 1999, and it is a collection of essays which are, of course, even older than that. I find Fish interesting. Whether I agree with his opinion on a particular topic or not, he always makes me re-think issues.

[MrCoffee]

13. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - Max Brooks

Really, really entertaining read.

[Dr. Strange]

19. Our school library has that book.

Should I check it out?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

14. The Price of Butcher's Meat" by Reginald Hill

The latest Dalziel and Pascoe mystery, is my bedside book.

[Dr. Strange]

15. Anathem by Neal Stephenson

[Onceuponalife]

16. Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin

About people who visit different planes of existence and study the cultural and socialogical differences between the different races of people who inhabit them. This is being compared favorably to Swift's Gulliver's Travels, one of my favorite books. Fans of Le Guin's Always Coming Home will like this, I think.

[LWolf]

17. It's not the 26th anymore, but this week I've *been* reading

The Way It Is William Stafford
{i}Benedictus: A Book of Blessings John O'Donohue
Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays Mary Oliver
Sharing Silence Gunilla Norris

Browsing bits and pieces from all of the above.

[azmouse]

18. The Defining Moment by Jonathan Alter

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