What are you reading?

[homoe]

Originally Posted by homoe

Just finished Leonard Cohen: A Remarkable Life
by Anthony Reynolds. If you're a Cohen fan or even if you're not you will enjoy this most interesting book.

Next I am starting Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling
Book by Amy Chozick

This is a used (the Cohen book) copy but is in very good condition! If you're interested I'd be happy to send it to a new home as well.

[homoe]

Mary ordered James Comey's A Higher Loyalty so I'm "borrowing" it and scanning it to see if I really want to read it..

[homoe]

Originally Posted by homoe

Mary ordered James Comey's A Higher Loyalty so I'm "borrowing" it and scanning it to see if I really want to read it..

I've decided to read it! I haven't gotten to any of the Trump stuff which is fine. The beginning deals with mafia kingpins and the whole Martha Stewart episode.

[Fancy]

Stretching Lessons by Sue Bender

I stumbled across her book Everyday Sacred months ago and decided to try out more of her musings.

[homoe]

I'm out of reading material. .....any suggestions?

[akiza]

The lost souls of dutch island by John Connolly

[Kätzchen]

I'm keeping it simple and light.... I've mostly just read posts on the boards, by member's in our community, or news articles. Mostly here, though.

[charley]

Originally Posted by homoe

I'm out of reading material. .....any suggestions?

"The television aspect of The Great American Read involves a two-hour opening show to air on May 22 on PBS affiliate stations, then, after summer tapings of “entertaining and informative documentary segments,” the show returns in the fall for six one-hour episodes led by NBC News correspondent Meredith Vieira..."

There is a list of 100 titles as follows:

At their web site, with nice front covers: http://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/books/#/

 1984 George Orwell
 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
 A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
 A Separate Peace John Knowles
 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
 The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
 Alex Cross Mysteries (series) James Patterson
 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
 Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
 And Then There Were None Agatha Christie
 Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery
 Another Country James Baldwin
 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
 Beloved Toni Morrison
 Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya
 The Book Thief Markus Zusak
 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz
 The Call of the Wild Jack London
 Catch-22 Joseph Heller
 The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
 Charlotte's Web E. B. White
 The Chronicles of Narnia (series) C.S. Lewis
 Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel
 Coldest Winter Ever Sister Souljah
 The Color Purple Alice Walker
 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
 Doña Bárbára Rómulo Gallegos
 Dune Frank Herbert
 Fifty Shades of Grey (series) E. L. James
 Flowers in the Attic V.C. Andrews
 Foundation (series) Isaac Asimov
 Frankenstein Mary Shelley
 Game of Thrones (series) George R. R. Martin
 Ghost Jason Reynolds
 Gilead Marilynne Robinson
 The Giver Lois Lowry
 The Godfather Mario Puzo
 Gone Girl Gillian Flynn
 Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
 Great Expectations Charles Dickens
 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
 The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
 Harry Potter (series) J.K. Rowling
 Hatchet (series) Gary Paulsen
 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
 The Help Kathryn Stockett
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy
Douglas Adams
 The Hunger Games (series) Suzanne Collins
 The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy
 The Intuitionist Colson Whitehead
 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
 The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
 Jurassic Park Michael Crichton
 Left Behind (series) Tim LaHaye and
Jerry B. Jenkins
 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 Little Women Louisa May Alcott
 Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
 Looking for Alaska John Green
 The Lord of the Rings (series) J.R.R. Tolkien
 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
 The Martian Andy Weir
 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
 Mind Invaders Dave Hunt
 Moby-Dick Herman Melville
 The Notebook Nicholas Sparks
 One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
 Outlander (series) Diana Gabaldon
 The Outsiders S. E. Hinton
 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
 The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan
 The Pillars of The Earth Ken Follett
 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
 Ready Player One Ernest Cline
 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
 The Shack William P. Young
 Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
 The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut
 The Stand Stephen King
 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
 Swan Song Robert R. McCammon
 Tales of The City (series) Armistead Maupin
 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
 This Present Darkness Frank. E. Peretti
 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
 The Twilight Saga (series) Stephenie Meyer
 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
 Watchers Dean Koontz
 The Wheel of Time (series) Robert Jordan and
Brandon Sanderson
 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls
 White Teeth Zadie Smith
 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë

I have emphasized just a few of the above which I have read...

Personally, I would add a few classics, such as:
The Odyssey of Homer: Homer, the Richmond Lattimore translation. This is such a fun adventure story.
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Histories by Herodotus
also,
The Canterbury Tales
and,
Beowulf, especially when read aloud!

[charley]

Just looked at the list and realized that I wasn't clear about all the books that I have read, which may or may not interest some:
1984 by Orwell, which I won't read again
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Alice's... by Carroll
All of Agatha Christie's books
Anne of Green Gables
Another Country by Baldwin
Atlas Shrugged
Catch22
The Catcher in the Rye
the Auel series
I have all the series of George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones
The Grapes of Wrath
Gulliver's Travels
I can't stand Atwood.... lol
Have read all of the Potter books
Conrad's Heart of Darkness ..."the horror, the horror" (Kurtz uttering it also in Apocalypse Now)
All of Tolkien's books
many of Marquez's books
quite a few of Austen's books
Siddhartha & Steppenwolf by Hesse
all of Vonnegut's books, anything sci-fi actually...
most of Hemingway
all of the Twilight books

I would also recommend any of Yasunari Kawabata's books, each book a work of art (shame he committed suicide...)
As well, any of V.S. Naipaul's books

[homoe]

Originally Posted by charley

"The television aspect of The Great American Read involves a two-hour opening show to air on May 22 on PBS affiliate stations, then, after summer tapings of “entertaining and informative documentary segments,” the show returns in the fall for six one-hour episodes led by NBC News correspondent Meredith Vieira..."

There is a list of 100 titles as follows:

At their web site, with nice front covers: http://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/books/#/

 1984 George Orwell
 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
 A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
 A Separate Peace John Knowles
 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
 The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
 Alex Cross Mysteries (series) James Patterson
 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
 Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
 And Then There Were None Agatha Christie
 Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery
 Another Country James Baldwin
 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
 Beloved Toni Morrison
 Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya
 The Book Thief Markus Zusak
 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz
 The Call of the Wild Jack London
 Catch-22 Joseph Heller
 The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
 Charlotte's Web E. B. White
 The Chronicles of Narnia (series) C.S. Lewis
 Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel
 Coldest Winter Ever Sister Souljah
 The Color Purple Alice Walker
 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
 Doña Bárbára Rómulo Gallegos
 Dune Frank Herbert
 Fifty Shades of Grey (series) E. L. James
 Flowers in the Attic V.C. Andrews
 Foundation (series) Isaac Asimov
 Frankenstein Mary Shelley
 Game of Thrones (series) George R. R. Martin
 Ghost Jason Reynolds
 Gilead Marilynne Robinson
 The Giver Lois Lowry
 The Godfather Mario Puzo
 Gone Girl Gillian Flynn
 Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
 Great Expectations Charles Dickens
 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
 The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
 Harry Potter (series) J.K. Rowling
 Hatchet (series) Gary Paulsen
 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
 The Help Kathryn Stockett
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy
Douglas Adams
 The Hunger Games (series) Suzanne Collins
 The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy
 The Intuitionist Colson Whitehead
 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
 The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
 Jurassic Park Michael Crichton
 Left Behind (series) Tim LaHaye and
Jerry B. Jenkins
 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 Little Women Louisa May Alcott
 Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
 Looking for Alaska John Green
 The Lord of the Rings (series) J.R.R. Tolkien
 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
 The Martian Andy Weir
 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
 Mind Invaders Dave Hunt
 Moby-Dick Herman Melville
 The Notebook Nicholas Sparks
 One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
 Outlander (series) Diana Gabaldon
 The Outsiders S. E. Hinton
 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
 The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan
 The Pillars of The Earth Ken Follett
 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
 Ready Player One Ernest Cline
 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
 The Shack William P. Young
 Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
 The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut
 The Stand Stephen King
 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
 Swan Song Robert R. McCammon
 Tales of The City (series) Armistead Maupin
 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
 This Present Darkness Frank. E. Peretti
 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
 The Twilight Saga (series) Stephenie Meyer
 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
 Watchers Dean Koontz
 The Wheel of Time (series) Robert Jordan and
Brandon Sanderson
 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls
 White Teeth Zadie Smith
 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë

I have emphasized just a few of the above which I have read...

Personally, I would add a few classics, such as:
The Odyssey of Homer: Homer, the Richmond Lattimore translation. This is such a fun adventure story.
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Histories by Herodotus
also,
The Canterbury Tales
and,
Beowulf, especially when read aloud!

Thanks for the reminder! I've just set my machine to record this!