At Indiana University
What are you reading these days?
Compiled by Christi Carew (January 2002)
Diana Cooper dondia@pacbell.net
Current
* "Unholy Dying" by Robert Barnard
In the queue
* "Iris Murdoch: A Life" Peter Conradi
* "The Global Soul" by Pico Iyer
David Ibbetson isserlis@ROGERS.COM
Current
* "The SAS at War 1941-1945" by Anthony Kemp
* "The Invention of Tradition" edited by Hobsbawm and Ranger
Just collected from the library
* "Monsieur Pamplemousse" Omnibus vol 1
* "In a dry season" by Peter Robinson
* "Rumpole Rests his Case" by John Mortimer
Sonya Plowman sonya.plowman@SYMPATICO.CA
Recently finished
* "Generica" by Will Ferguson
* "A Shortage of Engineers" by Robert Grossbach
Now Reading
* "Summer North of Sixty" by James Raffan
Joyce Nickel nickelini@TELUS.NET
* "The Russlander" by Sandra Birdsell (I have to read it quickly because there
are about 10 people lined up to borrow it.)
* "How to Talk So Kids Will Listen" by Faber and Mazlish
* "Emma" by Jane Austen (It's taking me forever to read this . . . it is certainly
not my favourite Jane Austen book.)
Linda Kerby kerby@BLITZ-IT.NET
* "Crime Brulee and Truffled Feathers" by Nancy Fairbanks
Theresa Mesa clanmesa@EARTHLINK.NET
* "Between the Darkness and the Dawn" by Chuck Swindoll
* "Road Warriors: Dreams and Nightmares Along the Information Highway" by Daniel
Burstein and David Kline
* My Bible
* "My Utmost for His Highest" by Oswald Chambers
On the back burner (because I just don't know about finishing it)
* "Lord, I Want to Be Whole" by Stormy Omartian (that whole "going through
a separation/impending divorce" thing, you know)
Amy Haugesag, ahacksaw@earthlink.net
Recently finished
* "Cause Celeb" by Helen Fielding-Fielding is better known as the author of
the Bridget Jones books, both of which I enjoyed; this book is a little bit
weightier, though it has some of the same wit and slightly ditzy charm as the
Bridget books.
Currently
* The most recent Bill Slider mystery by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Oh hold
* "The Bureau and the Mole" by David Vise
* "Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich
* "Word Freak" by Stefan Fatsis
* "One Palestine, Complete : Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate" by Tom
Segev
* "Echoes of Lies" by Jo Bannister
* and a not-yet-published mystery by Reginald Hill, intriguingly titled "Dialogues
of the Dead or Paronomania!"
Brida Connolly bconnolly@RRONLINE.COM
Currently
* The most recent in Dennis Lehane's wonderful (but staggeringly violent) Patrick
Kenzie novels
* Re-reading Lord Jim and am enjoying it vastly more than when I had to plow
through it in college. I missed most of the wit back then (and probably much
of the point).
Just Purchased
* A box of 48 John D. MacDonald novels on eBay -- all 21 Travis McGees plus
27 nonseries books -- and so am wallowing happily in marvelous, no-nonsense
prose.
Janis Foster jfoster@MANQUEHUE.NET
Recently finished
* "A Place of Safety" (a Midsomer Murders mystery) by Caroline Graham
Currently
* Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
* "A Crime in the Neighborhood" by Suzanne Berne
* "Bingo Night at the Fire Hall" by Barbara Holland
In line
* "The Essential Earthman" by Henry Mitchell
* A couple of months' worth of The New Yorker, Harper's, and Smithsonian
Don Dale ddale@MINDSPRING.COM
Currently
* "The City Kid" by Paul Reidinger
* a reader's proof of "The Stone Monkey" by Jeffrey Deaver (it's a Lincoln
Rhyme novel!) due out in March, I think.
Recently finished
* "We Band of Angels" the story of the American army and navy nurses trapped
on Bataan and Corregidor
John Mulvihill JMulvi0613@AOL.COM
On hold
* Edmonds's "Wittgenstein's Poker" and Halstead and Lind's "The Radical Center"
Currently
* "Hundred Years of Solitude" (my first time; for a book club; I'm not enchanted)
* "Evolution" (companion to PBS series)
Received for Christmas and will read soon
* Sebald's "Austerlitz" vol. 1 of the four-volume
* Orwell "Essays, Journalism & Letters" (Have been eager to read the latter
ever since reading an inspiring Clive James's review of the recently published
complete Orwell that costs several hundred dollars.)
Among the two dozen beside the bed
* the second two volumes of Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy (the first
volume was fantastic).
Dee Longenbaugh deelong@ALASKA.COM
Just re-read
* Alfred Hulse Brooks' "Blazing Alaska's Trails," a rather good history of
Alaska by the noted geologist who has the Brooks Range named in his honor.
Currently
* "In Honor of Eyak: the Art of Anna Nelson Harry." She was the last native
Eyak speaker and has wonderful stories.
* For Twinkies for the mind, I'm working on Patrick O'Brian's "The Hundred
Days;" great fun.
Ruth E. "I can write about (and read) anything!" (TM) Thaler-Carter Rthalerc@AOL.COM
I'm re-reading several Margaret Erskine, Mary Stewart, Patrick Ruell/Reginald
Hill and Ruth Rendell mysteries - the Erskines and Stewarts are in the bedroom,
the Ruell/Hill is in the bathroom and the Rendells are in the living room.
I don't remember enough of most of them for them to feel like re-reads; it's
like reading new book
David Wieck d_wieck@HOTMAIL.COM
Currently
* "John Adams" by David McCulloch
* "L.A. Requiem" by Robert Crais
* I'd like to say I'm reading "A Brief History of Time," and it's by the bed,
but if I'm two days away from it I find I have to start at the beginning again.
On deck
* "Pursuit" by Thomas Perry
* And I feel a spate of Joan Didion coming on - I'm about three books behind.
Marc Sacks msacks@WORLD.STD.COM
* "Auschwitz, 1939-1945," F. Pijper et. al (5 volumes; I'm about halfway through
vol. 3)
* "Lord Byron's Doctor" by Paul West; I picked this one up after finishing
"The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper," a much more interesting book
* "Turtle Diary" by Russell Hoban; my second Hoban book, after "Pilgermann;"
I read "Riddley Walker" some years ago
* "The Buccaneers" by Edith Wharton; the third Wharton book I've read in two
months
* "The Queue Vladimir" by Sorokin
* "Bonfire of the Humanities" by David Marc
* "Orlando Furioso" by Ariosto
* "The Manuscript Found at" by Zaragosa Potocki
Carolyn Haley dcma@vermontel.net
* binge-reading the Kate Fansler mystery series by Carolyn Heilbrun -- oops,
Amanda Cross (her pseudonym)
Terry Spencer TASpencer@AOL.COM
Received for Christmas
* "Blood Lure" by Nevada Barr (latest in her Anna Pigeon mysteries)
Preparing to reread
* "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell
* "Children of God" by Mary Doria Russell (sequel to The Sparrow)
Carol Stone stonecott@EARTHLINK.NET
Just finished
* "The Copper Beech" by Maeve Binchy
* "The Map That Changed the World" by Simon Winchester
Just started
* "Wake Up, Little Susie" (by a mystery writer whose name escapes me now).
On order
* Edward Teller's memoirs, which my good friend Judy Shoolery has spent more
than 20 years editing. (She is deservedly listed as the co-author.)
Ellen Cutler ebcutler@HOME.COM
Recently read
* "The Island of Lost Maps"
* "Mauve: Story of a Color"
* "Hours"
Just finished
* "Club Dumas" by Arturo Perez-Reverte. I love his mysteries/novels, although
this one was a bit harder of a read. CEL-mates may particularly like it, though,
because it is a mystery that centers on the nature of reading.
About to start
* "Silent Night" by Stanley Weintraub, which is about the 1914 Christmas encounters
on the Front.
* I was also given by my bluvvid "Lines of Fire: Women Writers of World War
I" edited by Margaret Higonnet.
Toni L. Bogolub tbogolub@CFMDIRECT.COM
* "Star by Star" by Troy Deming (?) (latest Star Wars book)
* "Science Fiction Audiences: Watching Dr. Who and Star Trek" by John Tulloch
and Henry Jenkins
* "When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One, Release 2.0" by David Gerrold
* "Tolkien: Author of the Century" by Tom Shippey
* "Interacting with Babylon 5" by ???? (another scholarly study of media fandom;
must have packed it already)
* "The Great Book of Amber" by Roger Zelazny
* and half a dozen other things to reread, as we are leaving on vacation soon.
Janet Lowenbach jlowenbach@starpower.net
* "100 years of Solitude" (on the advice of a writing teacher who says I should
try writing magical realism)
Kathi DeGuzman Kathi.Deguzman@Nextel.com
Just Finished
* Dean Koontz's latest, "One Door Away from Heaven." I have to admit that it
is strange. I can't even begin to write a short summary because I have not
yet figured out what the real story is.
Currently
* "Last Man Standing" by David Baldacci. This is a superb book. Lots of twists
and turns in the plot, and soooooo well written. I am coming to the end, and
I wish I wasn't.
Next
* "Natural Suspect"--It is a thriller with each of the chapters by written
by different authors, e.g., Philip Margolin, Brad Meltzer, and Lisa Scottoline;
and compiled by William Bernhardt.
* Deadhouse by Linda Fairstein's
Linda Lowenthal llowenthal@theatlantic.com
Just Finished
* "Paris to the Moon, essays on life in Paris" by Adam Gopnick
Currently
* "Scribble Scribble," collection of media-criticism essays written by Nora
Ephron in the 1970s -- currently debating whether to go back and read the essays
I skipped because they are about now-totally-forgotten controversies, or just
call myself done.
* "Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen" (I think that's what it's
called), by Fay Weldon. Not sure this is doing much for me.
Naomi Young naomi@smathersnt2.uflib.ufl.edu
Currently reading
* "Getting things done" by David Allen
* "Evening news" by Marly Swick (this is the unabridged audio version)
* "The worldwide church of the handicapped" by Marie Sheppard Williams (which
is so good, I am buying a copy of my own)
* "Eunoia" by Christian Bok (there should be an umlaut over the O). This is
an odd little book; here's an excerpt from the Publisher's Weekly blurb, via
Amazon.com: Bo's new book strikes one with the force of being the most incredible
literary curio: each of its chapters is allowed to use only one vowel outgunning
even Georges Perec's famed La Disparition, which simply omits the letter "e."
Apparently seven years in the making, Eunoia, the shortest word in the English
language to employ all the vowels (it means "beautiful thinking"), also employs
other, more mundane constraints on paragraph length (all are 12 lines long)
and what must be mentioned (the act of writing, nautical travel, energetic
eating)
To be started
* "Aging with a disability" by Roberta B. Trieschmann
* "Purple cane road" by James Lee Burke
Books I have never been able to finish:
* Anything by James Joyce, ditto Hemingway, with the exception of "The old
man and the sea," which was a high school assignment. I don't THINK I ever
finished "Wuthering heights," but I could be wrong.
Mark L. Levinson nosnivel@netvision.net.il
Currently
* I almost never get around to reading books except as a book reviewer. Currently
I'm reading Rabbi Harold Kushner's "Living a Life That Matters," because that's
what the newspaper sent me. So far I don't find it as ground- breakingly heretical
as his famous "When Bad Things Happen to Good People," but still disturbingly
offbase.
Can't Finish
* Is "Watership Down" a classic? I started reading it twice but managed neither
time to get past the beginning.
Christine Shuttleworth cshuttle@dircon.co.uk
Currently
* "Indexing and Indexes in Fact and Fiction" (a very funny anthology edited
by my friend and colleague Hazel Bell, just hot off the presses, published
by the British Library)
* "Herland and other stories" by Dorothy Perkins Gilman, who wrote the famous
story "The Yellow Wallpaper." "Herland" was recommended to me by a friend -
it's about a sort of feminist utopia.
* "Cassandra at the Wedding" by another Dorothy, Baker. Recommended by Hazel
Bell. Have you read it? [A fascinating tale.]
To be read
* "The Information" by Martin Amis
* "The Whole Woman" by Germaine Greer
* "Lempriere's Dictionary" by Lawrence Norfolk
* "The Play Room" by Olivia Manning
* "the new Indexing: a manual of good practice" by Pat Booth, the first decent
book on UK indexing practice for many years (there are a couple of good US
ones)
* "Life of Dylan Thomas" by Constantine Fitzgibbon
Can't finish
* for almost all my adult life I've been trying to get through Proust - I have
a 6-volume edition, and 2001 was to have been my 'Year of Reading Proust' but
I remain stuck halfway through Vol 2.
Pete Gaughan pgaughan@sybex.com
Currently
* Homer's "Odyssey" (currently at the start of Book 21, the contest of the
bow).
On my shelf, the ones fighting for next up
* "The Testament" by John Grisham
* "Dubliners" by Joyce
* a book of Japanese medieval poetry
Dawn Adams dkadams@earthlink.net
Currently
* "A Traitor to Memory by Elizabeth George," finally my turn with this book
that I put on hold at the library sometime mid-year.
In the to-be-read-real-soon-now pile
* "Black House" by King & Straub
* "Laughing Sutra" by Salzman
Gayle Eubank gayle_e@hotmail.com
* "Live Right for Your Type"
* "The Okinawa Program"
* A Margery Allingham mystery that has gone missing in the vicinity of the
Christmas tree
* "Emma"
* "Bellwether'
* "London: The Biography"
* and various Peanuts and Foxtrot books next to the bed
Roxana Schoen roxana.schoen@emotion.com
Just finished
* "Pigeon Pie" by Nancy Mitford
Currently
* "The Non-Existent Knight" by Italo Calvino
* "The Cloven Viscount"
Soon be reading
* all the many Trollope books I picked up cheap at summer book sales out at
the beach
Sarah Kampman skampman@acornsys.com
Currently
* "Words and Rules" by Steven Pinker
* "How the Mind Works" by Steven Pinker
* "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" by Gregory Maguire
* "The Blind Assassin" by Margaret Atwood
* "The Man in the Brown Suit" by Agatha Christie
Coming up
* "A History of God" by Karen Armstrong
* "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain
* portions of "The Decameron" by Boccaccio
Bryan Westbrook bryan.westbrook@amd.com
Currently
* Mike Grell's run on Green Arrow (a comicbook series from the 80's)
* "1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Science" by James S. Trefil (my current
bathroom book)
Soon to be reading
* "Claiming Power in Doctor-Patient Talk" by Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn
* "Just Words: Law, Language, and Power" by John M. Conley and William M. O'Barr
* "Nonverbal Communications: The Unspoken Dialogue" by David B. Buller, Judee
K. Burgoon, and W. Gil Woodall
* "The Nonverbal Communication Reader: Classic and Contemporary Readings" edited
by Joseph DeVito, et al.
* "Ways with Words: Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classrooms"
by Shirley Brice Heath
* If I can find the time, I would like to read "Killshot" by Elmore Leonard
Emmy Aricioglu emmy_aricioglu@hp.com
Just finished
* "Personal History" by Katharine Graham (autobiography) and only wish it had
been longer. Although she came from a rich and powerful family, she also had
the knack of making and sustaining friendships with the rich and powerful in
Washington.
To be read
* "My Name is Red" by Orhan Pamuk, a Turkish writer (I've waited many years
for someone of my cultural background to reach international acclaim)
* "Slowly Down the Ganges" by Eric Newby, a personal accounting of traveling
down the length of the Ganges River in the early 1960s
* "The Warden of English" by Jenny McMorris, the life of H.W. Fowler with whom
I've been intrigued since reading Fowler's Modern English Usage many years
ago
* "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie -- finally I want to see what all
the fuss is about
* "Code Complete" by Steve McConnell, which is a handbook of software construction
and is kind of a "hot" book right now in the developer's circle
* "The Handbook of Good English" by Edward D. Johnson, which has been recommended
or mentioned many times by others on the list so I finally had to get a copy
for myself
Renee Cornelisen ReneeC@Cimetrix.com
Recently read
* "The Shipping News" by Annie Proulx -- The unusual characters, settings,
and situations in this novel captured my imagination.
* "Simple Abundance" by Sarah Ban Breathnach --Probably could be called a _Chick
Book_. Some inspiration for every day of the year, beautifully written.
* "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle -- A good self improvement book. A lay
down your pain, become who you are, sort of message.
Christine Clough cclough@earthlink.net
Currently or will be soon
* "The Professor and the Madman" by Simon Winchester
* "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen
* "The Red Tent" by Anita Diamant
* "Nothing Like It in the World" by Stephen E. Ambrose
* "Half a Life" by V.S. Naipaul
Bob Allen robert.allen@pnl.gov
Recently
* "The Sigma Project" (or Protocol or something) by Ludum
Hugh Marsh marsh@engineering.ucsb.edu
Recently
* "The Way We Talk Now" by Geoffrey Nunberg. It's the perfect book for copyeditors
because is deals with the nuances-often amusing--of our changing language.
Rigid prescriptivists won't be happy with some of it, but most of us will enjoy
it, I'm sure.
Elliot McIntire elliot.mcintire@csun.edu
* "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien ( I just polished off The
Hobbit).
* "Giles Goat-Boy" by John Barth.
Linda Lowenthal llowenthal@theatlantic.com
Currently
* "Stand Facing the Stove," biography of Irma Rombauer and Marion Rombauer
Becker, of Joy of Cooking fame.
Mary Jane O'Connell vkohler@teleport.com
Currently
* "The Lord of the Rings" (again -- saw the movie last night)
* "The Professor and the Madman"
* Maybe I'll read "Soldiers of God" (about Afghanistan) by Robert Kaplan. My
husband, Vince, has just reviewed it and recommends it highly.
Victoria Beliveau vbel@together.net
* "Author Unknown" by Don Foster. I highly recommend it for copy editors!
Alexis Alvarez Alexis.Alvarez@morganstanley.com
Recently
* "Amsterdam" by Ian McEwan
Currently
* "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson
Beverly Bell beverly.bell@gs.com
Currently
* "Some Tame Gazelle," my favorite Barbara Pym novel (published in 1950). I
am a member of the Barbara Pym Society, which meets annually in Oxford as well
as in the U.S. I never tire of re-reading her work. Her writing is so perfect
that you couldn't remove a single word (she made her living as an editor and
it shows!).
Liz Shifflett listen@fcc.net
Currently
* "Witness of Bones" by Leonard Tourney (an Elizabethan mystery)
In the wings
* the latest paperback from Lilian Jackson Braun, "The Cat Who Smelled a Rat"
* Vol. 2 of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Collection (One Lonely Night; The
Big Kill; Kiss Me, Deadly)
Kari Gulbrandsen karigul@UDel.Edu
What I am reading now
* "What's Wrong With Dorfman" by John Blumenthal
* "How to Murder Your Mother-in-Law" by Dorothy Cannell
* "The Hundred Secret Senses" by Amy Tan
* "Divorced Beheaded Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of
Henry VIII" by Karen Lindsey
* "Out of Place" by Peter Said
* "Watership Down" by Richard Adams
What I want to read (I could go on forever with this list)
* "The Mistress of Husaby" by Sigrid Undset
* "The Vagina Monologues" by Eve Engsler
* "Soul Mountain" by Gao Xingjian
* "Speak" by Laurie Halse Andersen
* "When Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip K. Dick
* "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville
* "Girl Talk" by Julianna Baggott
* "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
* "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf
* "Animal Dreams" by Barbara Kingsolver
* "Simon's Family" by Marianne Fredriksson
* "Bee Season" by Myla Goldberg
* "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
* "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith
* "Mists of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley
* "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
* "I, Tina" by Tina Turner
* "Tales of the City" by Amistead Maupin
* "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
and (drum roll please.......) my All Time Favorites!
* "The Outsiders" by S. E. Hinton
* "The Moon Is Down" by John Steinbeck
* "God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
* "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" by Anne Tyler
* "Kristin Lavransdatter: The Bridal Wreath" by Sigrid Undset
* "Naked" by Dave Sedaris
* "High Tide in Tucson" by Barbara Kingsolver
* "Possession" by A. S. Byatt
* "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy
* "100 Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
* "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
* "Fair and Tender Ladies" by Lee Smith
* "A Lesson Before Dying" by Earnest Gaines
* "Hanna's Daughters" by Marianne Fredriksson
* "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
* "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Leslie Harris les@global.co.za
Currently
* "Dark Lady" by Richard North Patterson
* "The Star Dancers" by Spider and Jeanne Robinson
* "The One-Armed Queen" by Jane Yolen
* "Kant and the Platypus" by Umberto Eco
* "Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!" by Arthur C. Clarke
In the "To Read" pile (abridged; pile is a misnomer because they fill the house!):
* "Lord of the Rings" by JRR Tolkien (started it ages ago, couldn't finish
it; if I can't finish this time I can always see the movie <big grin>)
* "Violets are Blue" by James Patterson
* "Holocaust Journey" by Martin Gilbert
* "Perverse Spectators: The Practices of Film Reception" by Janet Staiger
Carrie Jadud ckepple@indiana.edu
Recently finished
* "The Silmarillion" by J. R. R. Tolkien
* "The Book of Atrix Wolfe" by Patricia McKillip
* "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
Currently
* "One Moonlit Night" by Caradog Prichard (in translation)
Scott Nichols Scott.Nichols@westgroup.com
My most recently read book was "In the Teeth of the Northeaster: A Solo Voyage
on Lake Superior" by Marlin Bree (man builds small wooden sailboat over period
of years, sets out to sail around Lake Superior, talk to the people who live
on and make their living from the lake, and ponders what caused the sinking
of the Edmund Fitzgerald).
Guy K. Haas guy@cliveden.com
* "At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden" by Yossi Klein Halevi [A Jew's Search
for God With Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land]
* "Now, Discover Your Strengths" by Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton,
Ph.D.
* "O is for Outlaw" (reread) by Sue Grafton
* "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Technical Writing" by Krista Van Laan & Catherine
Julian
* "Photoshop Retouching and Restoration" by Katrin Eismann
* "Adobe Photoshop 6 Studio Techniques" by Ben Willmore
* "Inside Adobe Photoshop 6, Limited Edition" by Gary D. Bouton (Editor)
Ginger A. Diekmann G.A.Diekmann@gmx.de
Just finished
* "Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States" by Dave Barry,
of course.
Currently
* "Magazine Editors Talk to Writers" by Judy Mandell.
* (I'm also reading "The Craft of Translation" by John Biguenet and Rainer
Schulte (eds.), but it doesn't quite count because I keep putting it down for
*very* long periods.)
Next
* "Ingenious Pain" by Andrew Miller
Nadine Fiedler fiedler@reed.edu
Just read
* "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie
On the to-be-read pile
* "Brunelleschi's Dome" by Ross King
Most probably next:
* The Niccolo series by Dorothy Dunnett
Rebecca Pepper rpepper@pcez.com
* "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell
* "Children of God" by Mary Doria Russell
Gary Johnson Garyjla@aol.com
Just finished
* "I Know This Much Is True" by Wally Lamb
* "Also recent: Prodigal Summer" by Barbara Kingsolver
Both highly recommended!
Susan Narayan narayan@visi.com
* "Murder in Holy Orders" by P.D. James. I don't usually read mysteries but
James is a master -- and she fleshes out her characters nicely.
* "Blue Diary" by Alice Hoffman
* "Hateship, Courtship, Friendship, Loveship, Marriage" by Alice Munro
Carol Kirschenbaum cskir@yahoo.com
Just read
* "Strangers on a Train" by Patricia Highsmith, (novel). Just read, highly
recommend it.
In the list
* "Kavalier & Clay" by Michael Chabon (novel)
* "The Yokota Officer's Club" by Sarah Bird (novel by a friend)
* "The Sound of Sirens" by William Brasse (mystery novel by a friend)
* "Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov" by Stacey Schiff (biography)
* "The Holocaust Industry" by Norman G. Finkelstein (nonfiction)
* "The Vanishing American Jew" by Alan Dershowitz
* (nonfiction)
NB: My novelist friends keep adding to my "must read" list. This list doesn't
count the two unpublished manuscripts author friends asked me to read this
week. Maybe I should strike up more friendships with photographers...
Holger Wahlen H.Wahlen@gmx.de
Note: GT = German translation
Read in the last month
* Melissa Bank: "The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing"
* L. Frank Baum: "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"
* Charlotte Bront: "Jane Eyre"
* Helen Fielding: "Schokolade zum Frhstck" (GT of "Bridget Jones's Diary")
* Peter Gritzmann, RenŽ Brandenberg: "Das Geheimnis des krzesten Weges"
* David Harel: "Das Affenpuzzle und weitere bad news aus der Computerwelt"
(GT of "Computers Ltd.: what they really can't do")
* Simon Singh: "Geheime Botschaften" (GT of "The Code Book")
Currently reading
* Richard P. Feynman: "QED" (GT)
* Helen Fielding: "Hummer zum Dinner" (GT of "Cause Celeb")
* Hugh Sebag-Montefiore: "Enigma - The Battle for the Code"
* Raymond Smullyan: "The Riddle of Sheherazade"
Next on the pile:
* Roddy Doyle: "Barrytown trilogie" (Dutch translation of "The Barrytown Trilogy")
* Carl Hiaasen: "Sick Puppy"
* John Irving: "Garp und wie er die Welt sah" (GT of "The World According to
Garp")
* Alan Isler: "Clerical Errors"
* George Orwell: "1984" (GT)
Kate O'Halloran kohallor@maine.rr.com
Just finished
* "The Bone People" by Keri Hulme
* "The Secret Life of Dust" by Hannah Holmes
* "Endurance" by Alfred Lansing.
Currently reading
* "The Brothers Karamazov" (I'm _determined_ to finish it this time!)
* "India: A History" by John Keay
* "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond
Next on the stack
* "First They Killed My Father" by Loung Ung
* "A Trial by Jury" by D. Graham Burnett.
DLDM Harmon dlhdmh1@yahoo.com
Currently
* "It's Not About the Bike" by Lance Armstrong
* "Rubiyt of Omar Khayym" by Fitzgerald
Close future
* "The No-Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America"
by O'Reilly
Far future (hopefully)
* "Final Gifts : Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications
of the Dying" by Maggie Callanan, Patricia Kelley.
Maggy Helwig mmh@itpnet.com
What I am reading now
* "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkein
* "Polgara the Sorceress" by David and Leigh Eddings
* "Alias Grace" by Margaret Atwood
* "Waiting for Godot" by Samual Beckett
* "Celtic Traditions" (can't remember author)
* "White Spells" (can't remember author)
* "21 Lessons of Merlyn" (can't remember author)
What I have on hold
* All of the Anita Blake series by Laurell Hamilton, except the first three,
which I finished in two weeks (they are REALLY addictive)
* "The Legacy of the Drow" by RA Salvatore
* "The Demon Awakens" by RA Salvatore
* Books 4 & 5 of the Cleric Quintet by RA Salvatore
* "Dragons of the Winter Star" (I think that is the right title) by Margaret
Weis and Tracy Hickman
* Two issues of Intercom, the STC magazine
Classics I can't finish:
* "Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James
* "Sons and Lovers" by DH Lawrence
* "Lady Chatterley's Lover" by DH Lawrence
* "War and Peace" by Tolstoy
* "Catch-22" (don't even get me started on why I can't finish this abomination)
Bou (Lisa Williams) lswillia@bluemarble.net
Currently reading
* By my friend Hanne Blank "Big, Big Love".
* Also, edited by Hanne Blank, "Zaftig." (And also reading some as yet unpublished
works of hers.)
* "Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs," ed. Amy Hempel and Jim Shepard
* "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins
* "Roger Ebert's Book of Film," ed. Roger Ebert
Waiting impatiently in the wings
* "Shadow and Claw" by Gene Wolfe
* "Nabokov's Butterflies" by Vladimir Nabokov, trans. Dmitri Nabokov; ed.Brian
Boyd and Robert M. Pyle
* "Single & Single" John LeCarre
* "Strange Things and Stranger Places" by Ramsey Campbell
* "The Willows at Christmas" by William Horwood
* "Poor Things" by Alasdair Gray
About to buy or order
* "The Midnighters Club" by Ron Horsley
* "Black House" by Stephen King and Peter Straub
Things I read parts of, consistently, over and over, especially when in dire
need of a laugh, or at least a sardonic smile
* "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
* "The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty"
* "The Short Stories of Saki" [H.H. Munro]
* "The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody" by Will Cuppy
* and, laughing for completely different reasons, "Collected Poems" by William
McGonagall
Christi Carew christi@learn.motion.com
Recently read
* "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" by Richard Feynman
About to read
* "Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist" by Richard Feynman
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