NVR - What are you reading right now? (Fiction or non-fiction)
Posted by Beans and Greens on May 12, 2007 · Member since Apr 2007 · 169 posts
I'm reading 'Raising Vegan Children in a Non-vegan World' by Erin Pavlina.
I'm curious what everyone else has their nose in at the moment! :)
Trying once again to read the Silmarillion. I did manage to soldier through it once in college but it takes some doing.
I'm debating giving this one a try soon, seeing as I've been reading a ton of mytholgy and mythology-related stuff, as well as re-reading the Lord of The Rings trilogy (out loud, to my daughters).
Would you recommend any other Tolkein before goving this one a go?
Your girls might enjoy some of his short stories, and of course The Hobbit but you've probably already done that. (I can't imagine little kids enjoying the 2nd volume of LOTR but that's probably just because I found it heavy going myself.)
Silmarillion reminds me a lot of Beowulf in spots, but then of course Tolkein was a professor of Anglo Saxon and Ancient English. (Maybe that's what it is. It reads too much like "prep.") You probably will like it but I think kids would find S. confusing.
"Marching Powder" by Rusty Young: it's a biog recalling the story of an English drugs traffiker in the most incredible Bolivian jail where you have to buy/ rent your own cell, buy your own food, etc., written by a lawyer and smuggled out of the prison. Quite astonishing.
I just started Eat, Pray, Love
paying to go to prison... sounds like a good idea, bolivia!
paying to go to prison... sounds like a good idea, bolivia!
It really is quite a read: the english prisoner even had tourists visiting him, even staying the night (it was listed in the Time Out guide). He paid to get out for an evening where he and a prison officer had a fancy meal, drank wine, went to a club where he met a girl who came back to the prison and stayed with him for a week or so.
Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend
New York writer Patrick Symmes retraces (on motorcycle, too) Che's first big journey (the same one that was in Motorcycle Diaries).
Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend
New York writer Patrick Symmes retraces (on motorcycle, too) Che's first big journey (the same one that was in Motorcycle Diaries).
Sounds an interesting read. I enjoyed Che's motorcycle diaries as well as his revolutionary diaries. let us know how you find it.
Just about to start 'Ecosocialism or Barbarism', edited by Jane Kelly and Sheila Malone - it's a collection of essays I picked up randomly somewhere because I'm interested in both ecological and social justice issues, and they are not brought together often enough. I'm not much of a marxist though, so we'll see what I make of this... :)
re-reading 'Papillon', memoir of Henri Charriere for the second time. It's about a man in the 30's-40's who was unjustly imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, and manages to escape from some of the day's highest-level security prisons. It's really good. People keep telling me that there was a movie made from it, but I've never seen it.
I'm reading Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. It's the second book of the Hunger Games series. It's very intense but a great read. I've got 93% of it read (Kindles don't have page #s) and the next 7% is sure to be very, very exciting.
I'm plowing through Midwives, by Chris Bohjalian.
Just finished Nella Last's Peace, the companion book to Nella Last's War. I understand that she wrote about 2 million words every three years, she left Pepys in the shade, but I was disappointed in the books, particularly this one. They seemed to have a genius for skipping all the really interesting bits, with inserted comments to tell you what you were missing, and left in too much about the food she prepared during rationing and how she cleaned her house. Nothing about her visits to Ireland, or anywhere else, though we are told she went places and did interesting things. I suppose they'll wait another 200 or so years before a better edition comes out, kind of like Pepys complete Diary being published 350 years later. At least I was around for the Latham Matthews edition of Pepys, but I wish I could "come again" as Nella put it, to read the Complete Nella Last.
I'm plowing through Midwives, by Chris Bohjalian.
I read that and really liked it! Assuming you are too if you are plowing through it!
"Marching Powder" by Rusty Young: it's a biog recalling the story of an English drugs traffiker in the most incredible Bolivian jail where you have to buy/ rent your own cell, buy your own food, etc., written by a lawyer and smuggled out of the prison. Quite astonishing.
want to read this..I really like prison books.
just finished two david sedaris books and a david cross book. i've been on a dark comedy kick lately. anyone have some recommendations?
I just finished The Girl Who Played With Fire last week and am now reading Andre Agassi's autobiography, Open, which I borrowed from my mother in law. It is constantly making me either want to watch some tennis right now or never watch tennis again...
I think my brother's fiancee has the third Steig Larsson book as well, so when I return the first two to her, hopefully I can borrow that as well to read next : )
just finished two david sedaris books and a david cross book. i've been on a dark comedy kick lately. anyone have some recommendations?
How about David Rakoff or Sarah Vowell? I've read Rakoff's Don't Get Too Comfortable and Fraud: Essays. I remember liking one better than the other, but I can't remember which. ::) He's pretty vicious and I remember appreciating one that included a little more self-deprecation. Vowell's Wordy Shipmates is educational, thought-provoking and darkly funny.
I've been reading this silly series by Joanne Fluke. I'm reading The Cream Puff Murder now.
Just finished 'Open' and I loved it.
Now have no idea what to read but my husband just borrowed Nick Hornby's 'About a boy' from his parents and even though I've already read it, that'll probably be next...
found something significantly more stimulating to read
... Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road'...
My mother in law said it was one of the grimmest most haunting books she's ever read, and she reads a lot. It's going to make me want to hunt down a copy of 'No Country for Old Men' though, I can tell!
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