I am well on my way to reading fifty books this year....

[WCGreen]

I have been reading a great variety of titles and genres...

My only guilty pleasure has been three Jesse Stone books by Robert Parker...

A couple of great books I discovered by reading the New Yorker and New York Times are...



Ten Days in the Hills, by Jane Smiley...

Laer, At the Bar, by REbecca Barry...

The Collected Short Stories of Amy Hemple

Reading Like a Writer # A Guide for People who Love Books and for those who want to Write Them, by Francine PRose...

Bad Luck and Trouble, by Lee Child...

The Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem

Extremely Loud & Increadably Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy


Great books on a wide range of subjects....

I love reading...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. You ARE well-read!

I think the world would be a much better place if everyone read as much as you do...

I love reading too....

But DU is too tempting, much of the time...

I plan to read extensively in our current New Yorker tomorrow......

:hi:

[WCGreen]

11. I started in on the History of Philosophy by Sir Bertrand Russell...

That'll take a while...

[Richard Steele]

2. Jonathan Safran Foer there...the only novelist that has REALLY impressed me in a few years.

I read his "Everything is Illuminated" a few months back...
all I can say is "WOW".

Just...fricking...WOW. That was an AMAZING piece of work.

[WCGreen]

7. You ought to read the new one....

It is very good as well...

[Richard Steele]

12. "Ought to"? No, I -MUST- read the new one!

Now that I have become aware that a new one exists (thank you, BTW),
I shall seek it out and read it twice.

May God have mercy upon anyone who stands in my way!

(Kidding aside, he's REALLY good- I'll have a copy of that before
the week is up!)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. I've started to read again, too.

I'm shooting for at least 100 this year, but I'm way behind. :D

[WCGreen]

10. I have read s few of the classics that for some reason I hagd never read...

Such as Anna Karenina, The Quiet American, The Heart of Darkness, The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...

[Robeson]

4. Dude, you need to catch up....

...you're falling behind...;-)

[InternalDialogue]

5. Good on you!

I started the year with a similar ambition, but my time management skills have led me astray. I am still reading more this year than last, but your pace puts me to shame.

What did you think of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close? I heard him do a reading at a local store, and both his book and his presentation fascinated me. It's on my list for reading in the near future.

[WCGreen]

9. I really liked that book...

It is 9/11 told through the eyes of a nine year old as well as comparing the act of the terrorist on 9/11 to the Allied bombing of Dresden in WW2...

I thoroughly enjoyed the book...

[Wetzelbill]

6. You should check out "Flight" by Sherman Alexie

fast read, well worth it.

on edit:

I should end up in the 30s or 40s in books. Just depends. We'll see. :)

[WCGreen]

8. Thanks for the tip....

I think I may even try a Butowski this year...

[Wetzelbill]

13. I have only read one Bukowski novel

read lots of his poetry though. He's solid. Very entertaining.

You may be interested in reading "Under The Feet Of Jesus" by Helena Maria Viramontes. She's fantastic. It's a good novel for those interested in social justice, as it's about migrant farm workers. Well, a family of them. Fantastic writer, very beautiful prose, I couldn't recommend her more highly. I would also say anything by James Welch, although "Winter In The Blood" is a great starting point. And if you like Cormac McCarthy, and you haven't already read them, I would also suggest "Blood Meridian" and "No Country For Old Men." If you like poetry maybe try "Loose Woman" and "My Wicked, Wicked Ways" by Sandra Cisneros. I would also suggest "Shapeshift" by Sherwin Bitsui, he's a Navajo poet and a good friend of mine.

[WCGreen]

14. Thanks to the tips, WB....

[Wetzelbill]

15. no problem

Glad to do it. I'm an eclectic reader, just be glad I never suggested any pro wrestling books, I've read about 7 in the last year, haha.

[REP]

16. I've Read 62 Books This Year So Far

I'm very lucky - I have a friend who has similar tastes in reading material, and he lets me borrow his so I don't have to buy new books constantly (or new bookcases!).

[WCGreen]

17. That sounds like my kind of freindship....

[Mythsaje]

18. I like Lee Child...

Though I gotta say, only fifty?

;)

I'm not even sure how many books I read in a year anymore. At least twice that. My wife probably reads two hundred or more.

Course, now that I've discovered audiobooks, I don't finish a book in a couple of hours anymore. That's a good thing.

[WCGreen]

23. I'm a slow reader....

I read carefully in order to pick up style points and write down ideas for my writing...

Child's book I read in less than two days...

Some of the others take longer...

[Monk06]

19. Ah read three Shakespeares and two Camuses this week and it's only Monday.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[FunkyLeprechaun]

20. I need to get back onto reading!

I used to read 6 a day (varying lengths, 300 pages is a breeze for me). My parents had to drag me down from my room for dinner and told me not to read in the restaurants we would go to.

I get all fired up reading and consume books like there's no tomorrow. Then I lag off and do other things. It's an on-off thing with me.

I keep a book log (since 1989) and I can tell which years I barely read at all and which years I CONSUMED books. It's coming on to reading 2,000 books in the past 18 years, which comes to about 111 books read every year. That's not always true for some years (In the summer of 1998, I read only 1 book and my junior year in HS, I think I read a grand total of 8 books).

My book log is out of my reach at the moment but I did a blog a couple of years about it.

I have 5 pages left in my 18 year old book log and I need to be motivated to read again!! I'm reading the newspaper more often, maybe I'll get back to reading books!!

[WCGreen]

24. Actually, the rate I am going I should hit about 75....

I slow down when I read non fiction...

I don't like to read books of the day about politics and stuff so I haven't read any of the new books about bush or the dem's...

I read stuff like The History of the Catholic Church, Cities and the Wealth of NAtions more timeless stuff...

A lot of biographies...

[Neoma]

21. I've read fifty books...twice in two years.

Huh.

[RetroLounge]

22. Not sure if I've hit 50 books, but probably darn close

Reading The Amazing Adventure of Kavalier and Clay right now. Amazing book so far...

:hi:

RL

[WCGreen]

25. I love that book....

I picked it up right after I got out of the hospital three years ago, the first book I read when I got home...

I'm going to pick up his new one, about the Yidish Policeman in Alaska...

[Starbucks Anarchist]

30. Not like you have a steady supply of books around, right?

:rofl:

[RetroLounge]

32. Are you implying something?

:rofl:

RL

[AllegroRondo]

26. I've really increased my reading by borrowing books on tape

from the library, and listening to them during the commute.

[azmouse]

27. This is why I love the people on DU!

I'm happiest with a book in my hands. Can't enough of reading.

Right now I'm reading Al Gore's book 'The Assault On Reason' and finishing up 'The Secret Life of Houdini' by William Kalush and Larry Sloman.

Do you read several books at the same time or do you take them one at a time?

[RetroLounge]

33. Always got 2 or 3 going at once

plus a few poetry books I can read in spurts...

RL

[KatyMan]

28. I spend anywhere

from 2 to 5 hours a day on the train (depending on which of my several 'base locations' I go to), so honestly I read 8 to 10 books a month, everything from mysteries to thrillers to history books. I've gone through the entire Dalziel and Pascoe canon (Reginald Hill British detective series--excellent, excellent books) in the past 4 months (about 20 books), and have a shelf full of WWII books I've read this year. I can't say I like spending so much time commuting, but then again it does give me plenty of oppurtunity to do what I love and do best!

[WCGreen]

35. You lucky dog....

[KatyMan]

36. honestly, can't disagree

I love to read, and the best part is because of what I do, my company reimburses me for my train ticket, so I get paid to read :D

[WCGreen]

37. Damn....

[Deep13]

29. That's 49 more than "President" Bush has read his whole life. nt

[LSK]

31. I am currently reading 5 books

How come I never can finish any of them?

:shrug:

[KatyMan]

34. I do the same thing....

Just cast mine eye around on different books, until one catches my attention. All of the books I'm reading at any given time usually get read, but sometimes some of them take awhile.