What are You Reading Now?

[melliedee]

Just finishing "Slaughterhouse" by Gail Eisnitz. It's pretty graphic, an investigation of the greed and corruption in the USDA and animal cruelty in the meat industry.

Part of me wishes I hadn't read it, the other part thinks everyone should read it.

I'll have to check out Kim Harrison. I like vampire books, especially for the beach!

[melliedee]

Originally Posted by Tony&Cheri

We loaded up on books when we went back to the States for Jazz fest. Two I just finished are:

The latest in the Rachel morgan series, The Outlaw Demon Wails by Kim Harrison. Supernatural romance novels. The main character is a witch who makes a living as a demon bounty hunter with a pixie sidekick a werewolf boyfriend and a lesbian vampire friend. Lots of action and sex. Kind of like the Streck Deck meets Dracula. Quick reads. This one was a little slower than the others but I stillI love it.

When the Light Goes Out by Larry McMurtry. McMurtry returns to the locale and characters he first started writing about in The Last Picture Show. He has followed Duane Moore from horny teenager in that novel to successful but confused unfulfilled oilman in Texasville, through a middle aged crisis in Duanes' Depressed and now takes him into old age. It is a sad book where the main character must deal with the fact that most of his family is gone, most of his friends dead, and he doesn't have much time left himself...so how do you find purpose and meaning in life? Sometimes falling in love helps. A very well written, ocassionally funny, but sad book.

Papa T

After this suggestion, I picked up Harrison's first book, Dead Witch Walking, for my trip. Well, I read it already! Totally fun, I'll have to get the next one and hide it at my Mom's so I won't read it before Monday.

It put me in such a vampire mood that I also picked up Stephanie Meyer's first two in her series of vampire books, which I've heard are great. They are currently making a film of the first one, Twilight.

[redhairgirl1]

Originally Posted by melliedee

Just finishing "Slaughterhouse" by Gail Eisnitz. It's pretty graphic, an investigation of the greed and corruption in the USDA and animal cruelty in the meat industry.

Part of me wishes I hadn't read it, the other part thinks everyone should read it.

I'll have to check out Kim Harrison. I like vampire books, especially for the beach!

Just as long as it's not about cannabalism! That book put you in a funk for a few hours

[gingele]

Originally Posted by melliedee

After this suggestion, I picked up Harrison's first book, Dead Witch Walking, for my trip. Well, I read it already! Totally fun, I'll have to get the next one and hide it at my Mom's so I won't read it before Monday.

It put me in such a vampire mood that I also picked up Stephanie Meyer's first two in her series of vampire books, which I've heard are great. They are currently making a film of the first one, Twilight.

I just bought her novel The Host (not related to her vampire books). Thought I'd save it for Playa but I'm already a hundred pages in. If it wasn't for stupid WORK getting in the way of my leisure reading, I'd probably have it done by the end of the day.


PS Mel - thought of you and Kris in the bookstore, they were cranking out the ABBA tunes.

[melliedee]

Originally Posted by gingele

I just bought her novel The Host (not related to her vampire books). Thought I'd save it for Playa but I'm already a hundred pages in. If it wasn't for stupid WORK getting in the way of my leisure reading, I'd probably have it done by the end of the day.


PS Mel - thought of you and Kris in the bookstore, they were cranking out the ABBA tunes.

Cool. I kept hearing so much about her vampire series, and when I went looking for them at the bookstore they were in Young Adult fiction.

I bought them anyway! After my Cormac McCarthy non-beach book mishap (The Road!) I want some fluff, fun and a comfy lounge chair.

6 days!!!!!!!

[Ginger]

Was going to post on DaveV's new thread... but thought I'd do it here instead.

Dave, that's totally cool about writing to the author...I've thought about doing that a time or two, but never thought I'd ever get a reply. That's cool that you did!

I read a couple of books on our vacation, this one was a Pulitzer Prize winner, soon to be a movie (same author as No Country For Old Men)



A post-apocolyptic tale, it is a good book, very well written with very different and intersting dialogue that is quite hypnotic.

I also read this one:



Very poignant, not so much a page-turner, but a good read, a good eye-opener as well.

[debbielasvegas]

The Disappearance of the Universe.
Straight Talk About Illusions, Past Lives, Religion,
Sex, Politics, and the Miracles of Forgiveness

by Gary Renard

[DaveV]

(take#2 )
Just finished a really amazing book -

WHEN WE GET TO SURF CITY
WHEN WE GET TO SURF CITY

- truly an amazing read, much more than just traveling with a rock band. I exchanged email with the author afterwards, he was quite happy to see that I "got it".



What a great letter.

I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Some of the things you pointed out in particular-- especially what you said about the importance of those long summer nights-- make me know that you understood exactly why I was telling the story the way I did. Again, thanks so much for your kind words, and the eloquent thoughts behind them. They mean a lot. Bob Greene

[TEX]

[maliasma]

I'm about halfway through "Eat, Pray, Love" and I have yet to read "Survival of the Sickest" but it's on my list.

I also picked up Jennifer Weiner's latest (sequel to "Good in Bed") and I also re-read the last three Harry Potter novels.

[PlayaLove]

Knights of the Black and White
by Jack Whyte

[gingele]

[Ginger]

[queencityfan]

Originally Posted by Ginger

I read this last summer in Playa, loved this book!

[gingele]

Finished The Terror. Interesting read. Would recommend it, esp. for history buffs and/or anyone interested in arctic exploration circa late 19th century (the novel is a fictionalized version of the Franklin Expedition's search for the Northwest Passage).


Now onto this -

[popeye]

Originally Posted by Ginger

Hey, I'm reading this too! Just started, on Chptr 3. So far, so good!!!