I’m reading Travels with Herodotus.
This is Ryszard Kapuscinski’s last work, part memoir and part reflection on Herodotus' Histories, which he takes along during his travels.
I like it so far. I loved Imperium. Kapuscinski’s writing follows a narrative similar to the stories told to me by my own family and their experiences in post civil war and pre-Soviet Russia. He captures the mix of beauty and starkness
and what happens to regular people when empires fall and a society restructures and rebuilds. I don’t think it’s an easy dichotomy for a writer to process and retell with any balance, but he does it well.

Next up is The Long Falling by Keith Ridgway. I've heard great things about it.

Russian ballet..
 

Have read the Bill Bryson - i liked it - i enjoy most of his writing.

I also enjoy Bill Bryson's writing. I have read A Walk in the Woods, it inspired me (partly, but largely) to want to hike the AT. :)

I am reading Wilderness Essays by John Muir.... Excellent book :) Even the introduction was good, and I typically just skim them ;)

Punk History: American Hardcore by Steven Blush

The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett. I am half way through "Fall of the Giants" and I have Winter of the World waiting for me.

There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.

Reading these "love stories" is like chewing on broken glass.
Petrushevskaya is an excellent writer, however, so the bleeding is worth it. Kind of.

Wish I had time to bury my nose into a good book, but lately the extent of it has been studying for my national licensure exam. Oh wait!! I did buy and go through the book! It was called CRC Exam: Guide to Success by Roger O Weed, PhD, CRC and Joseph A Hill, PhD, CRC 9th Ed. *Sighs...
But to be able to get back to reading for pleasure.......*another dreamy sigh

The Vanished Man .. (Lincoln Rhyme Series)
By Jeffrey Deaver

At the Heart of History- Forgotten battlegrounds of the Norse
:pirate-steer:

I have been reading from two books from a former English & Women's studies class I took a few years ago. At the time, we had to read both books side-by-side; as well as provide a highly developed research appendice to our study papers. I didn't like it at the time because I felt my head was on fire. But I saved my books from that class because it's important to internalize the tremendous struggle women have endured and how we still continue to liberate ourselves from constraining, and what feels like at times to suffocate our very existence, socially held agenda.

Authors of Classical literature that was considered highly controverial during their time:

North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell, 1855)
Ann Veronica (H.G. Wells, 1909)

(both boths are reprints and published by Penguin Books)

Coming soon in May:

And The Mountains Echoed
(Khaled Housseini)

A novel about how we find a lost peice of ourselves in someone else: How we find love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most. Following its characters and the ramifications of their lives and choices and loves around the globe—from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos—the story expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page (Amazon, 3/2013).

I have read two other books by Hosseini:
The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns
Both books affected me profoundly - Housseini definately
has a way of illustrating the human condition in timeless ways.

http://covers.booktopia.com.au/big/9...ins-echoed.jpg

This is a beautiful book , with some of the greatest gorillas photos taken by Bob Campbell. Such amazing grueling work Dian did for our Gorillas.
She was one tough lady.
http://images.bookstore.ipgbook.com/...0956444899.jpg

I am reading......

All That Is Bitter & Sweet - Ashley Judd with MaryAnne Vollers

its pretty good

Low Back Disorders: Evidence based prevention and rehabilitation
Dr Stuart McGill

The Essentials of Sport and Exercise Nutrition
Dr John Berardi

Yeah, light fluff.

I'm reading Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin. It came out in 2006- I'd never heard of it, but it's come up a few times lately so I'm taking that as a cosmic nudge.

Just started it, but so far so good. It focuses on Lincoln's gift for turning his political opponents into allies by making the message more important than the ego.

Like potato chips, you can't have just one....
 

"Incarnate" by Jodi Meadows. (a trilogy....NEWSOUL, NOSOUL, HEART)

NEWSOUL
Ana is new. For thousands of years in Range, a million souls have been reincarnated over and over, keeping their memories and experiences from previous lifetimes. When Ana was born, another soul vanished, and no one knows why.
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"Sensual Reading; New Approaches to Reading in its Relations to the Senses."
Edited by Micaehl Syrotinski and Ian Maclachlan

Sensual Reading is a collection of essays that attempts to rearticulate the relationship between reading and the different senses as a way of moving beyond increasingly homogenized discourses of the ‘‘body’’ and the ‘‘subject.’’ Contributions engage with the individual senses, with the themes of sensory richness and sensory deprivation, and with the notion of ‘‘telesensuality.’’

Katniss~~(Thank you Kätzchen, I liked "A Thousand Splendid Suns" and now have "And the Mountains Echoed" on order with Amazon.)