What are you reading?

[Medusa]

I've been hearing a lot about "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn and started listening to it today while I'm puttering around the house.

I am pleasantly surprised and have stayed with it all day! It's really engaging and I will probably stay up late tonight to finish it in print!

[blush]

The World's Strongest Librarian- memoir of a weight-lifting librarian with Tourette's Syndrome

Every Day-great premise about a teenage being who wakes up in a different body every day, poorly excecuted, IMO.

[Medusa]

Originally Posted by Medusa

I've been hearing a lot about "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn and started listening to it today while I'm puttering around the house.

I am pleasantly surprised and have stayed with it all day! It's really engaging and I will probably stay up late tonight to finish it in print!

Ok, so I finished this at 3am. In other words, I gulped this book down like free ice cream!

A couple of spoiler-y things so read no further if you plan to read this:

First, I've never read anything by this author and was prepared to be disappointed because I don't like a lot of popular fiction. This, however, was so different than what I expected that I will be reading all of her other stuff.

And second: The PACE is fantastic. The writing style is both jarring and stark...and really beautiful. The characters are fucked up beyond all belief and the sheer mental illness in that one is beyond most of what I've read about supposed "-paths".

I told a girlfriend of mine that I felt like I had been punched in the butthole after reading this. It's such a fucked up, wonderful read.

[daisygrrl]

i'm (of course) an incorrigible bibliophile; and this is my latest pleasure (that had nothing to do with school, etc.)

I just read [ame="http://www.amazon.com/The-Impostors-Daughter-True-Memoir/dp/B005OHUK7M"]The Imposter's Daughter[/ame]--and loved it. I wanted something confessional and structurally complex. For those who love a memoir, it's fantastic--and for those who adore comic prose, it's breathtaking.

[nycfem]

daisygrrl, I soooo loved The Imposter's Daughter! It would figure you loved it too! You're the first person I've talked to who has also read it .

I am reading "I am the Central Park Jogger." Well, I'm listening to it on tape, let's be honest here. It's read by the author which is cool. It's certainly a heavy topic. It's very well-written and flows beautifully. Much of it is about how one recovers from a traumatic injury which I find to be quite fascinating.

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Am-Central-Park-Jogger-Possibility/dp/B000C4SZ10/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369443499&sr=8-1&keywords=the+central+park+jogger"]I Am the Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility: Trisha Meili: Amazon.com: Books[/ame]


On a much lighter note, I'm listening to the CD of the new David Sedaris book: Let's explore Diabetes with Owls. It's a collection of his usual humorous, memoir-type essays. He always reads his own books for the recording, and I love his voice. It's very soothing, and he clearly gets a kick out of himself which is kind of sweet. I'm a little less into it because I've already read most of these essays by him in the New Yorker. Oh, what can ya do?

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Explore-Diabetes-David-Sedaris/dp/0316154695/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369443666&sr=8-1&keywords=understanding+owls+diabetes"]Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: David Sedaris: 9780316154697: Amazon.com: Books[/ame]

Originally Posted by daisygrrl

i'm (of course) an incorrigible bibliophile; and this is my latest pleasure (that had nothing to do with school, etc.)

I just read The Imposter's Daughter--and loved it. I wanted something confessional and structurally complex. For those who love a memoir, it's fantastic--and for those who adore comic prose, it's breathtaking.

[RockOn]

Hi everyone, I am very interested in reading a biography about Elena Sendler. Google search provided "Courageous Heart."

I welcome your suggestions regarding a good read
about her.

Thanks.
Brock

[The JD]

Originally Posted by daisygrrl

I just read The Imposter's Daughter--and loved it. I wanted something confessional and structurally complex. For those who love a memoir, it's fantastic--and for those who adore comic prose, it's breathtaking.

I downloaded this last night, just finished. I usually buy graphic novels (or in this case, graphic memoirs) in hard copy, but the iPad/Kindle app did a good job with the graphics.

Great read, thanks for bringing it to my attention! It has this interesting blend of titillating and insightful. Now that I think of it, that's the standard addiction-memoir formula, but it's interesting to see it as an illustrated narrative. The ending is a bit too tidy and abrupt for my taste, but that might have more to do with the comic book format/presentation.


Recommended!

[WickedFemme]

I'm reading the 'Killer Wore Leather' by Laura Antoniou. It's very amusing, humorous, and if you have ever been to a leather contest - you will laugh your arse off.

I'll look that one up, thanks for posting WickedFemme.

Currently reading The Dark Lord's Handbook by Paul Dale. I'm only 17% through it - I may be a super speller but a dyslexic, slow reader Really enjoying what I've read thus far and have laughed out loud numerous times.

"After many spectacular failures, Evil decided to lend more than inspiration to these would be tyrants. He wrote an easy to follow Dark Lord's Handbook. And yet the next Dark Lord that came along screwed up like all the others.
It had been hundreds of years, and the Handbook was lost in the annals of time, along with all that was mythic and exciting in the world. Then one day a randy dragon had a chance encounter. Nine months later a Dark Lord was born.
In time, the Handbook found its way to this new contender, Morden. To become a Dark Lord is no easy thing. Morden had better be a quick study."
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...ord-s-handbook

[Semantics]

Currently reading:

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/End-All-Wars-Rebellion-1914-1918/dp/B009LPNH0K/ref=la_B000APHVX4_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1369616575&sr=1-2"]To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918[/ame]
by Adam Hochschild.

World War I was supposed to be the “war to end all wars.” Over four long years, nations around the globe were sucked into the tempest, and millions of men died on the battlefields. To this day, the war stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation.

To End All Wars focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war’s critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Many of these dissenters were thrown in jail for their opposition to the war, from a future Nobel Prize winner to an editor behind bars who distributed a clandestine newspaper on toilet paper. These critics were sometimes intimately connected to their enemy hawks: one of Britain’s most prominent women pacifist campaigners had a brother who was commander in chief on the Western Front. Two well-known sisters split so bitterly over the war that they ended up publishing newspapers that attacked each other.

As Adam Hochschild brings the Great War to life as never before, he forces us to confront the big questions: Why did so many nations get so swept up in the violence? Why couldn’t cooler heads prevail? And can we ever avoid repeating history?

[Fancy]

Return to the Caffe Cino

A collection of plays and memoirs edited by Steve Susoyev and George Birimisa

...getting ready for a new project next year and selecting plays. This is exciting stuff.