What are you reading right now...

[JKaty]

The Global You (http://www.globalyou.co.uk) by Susan Bloch and Philip Whiteley. Great book for anyone working and living abroad. 10 strategies of how to adjust yourself to a new environment.

[DWill]

"Your inner fish" by Neil Shubin

I've been seeing this around, but is it any good??? $17 for a book I've no idea about is kinda big for me.

I just started it yesterday. It's been good so far... nothing extraordinary.

I'm too poor to buy books... i get all my books from my library.

We read Shubin's book here a couple of years ago. I enjoyed it, and I think everyone else who discussed it did, too.

I've been reading, along with saffron, books by the Canadian fiction writer Alice Munro. She has written mostly short stories, but did write the short novel on which the film "Away from Her" (starring the great Julie Christie) is based. Munro's writing is hard to describe, but maybe her strength is uncovering the everyday strangeness in our lives. She gets high praise from her fellow writers and, as they say, deserves to be better known.

Two recent collections are Too Much Happiness and Runaway. I'm now reading her fictionalized family history The View from Castle Rock, which I'm enjoying.

[lindad_amato]

"I've been reading, along with saffron, books by the Canadian fiction writer Alice Munro. She has written mostly short stories, but did write the short novel on which the film "Away from Her" (starring the great Julie Christie) is based. Munro's writing is hard to describe, but maybe her strength is uncovering the everyday strangeness in our lives. She gets high praise from her fellow writers and, as they say, deserves to be better known.

Two recent collections are Too Much Happiness and Runaway. I'm now reading her fictionalized family history The View from Castle Rock, which I'm enjoying.[/quote]

DWill,
Munro is wonderful. Somehow I feel transported when I read her works. You're correct she does uncover some basic depth in our lives, but I'm not so sure that it's strangeness, because it is prevalent everywhere, just not exposed. Joyce Carol Oates does this also, although not quite as mystically (?) as Munro.

[Randy Kadish]

Just purchased Decision Points. by G.W. Bush. Have to get his take.
Randy

[johnson1010]

reading

The end of Faith by Sam harris
Collection of works by Thomas Paine

Just read

The Strain and
The Fall, by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan.

[lindad_amato]

Just purchased Decision Points. by G.W. Bush. Have to get his take.
Randy

That's nice of you, Randy.

[geo]

I've been reading, along with saffron, books by the Canadian fiction writer Alice Munro.

I've read some of Munro's stories in the Norton Anthology of Contemporary Literature. I like her work a lot.

I'm currently reading The Last Book by Serbian author Zoran Zivkovic. It's hard to describe, but perhaps a metaphysical mystery.

[vetwriter]

Honestly? I'm reading about Organic Chemistry and Anatomy/Physiology. In addition to writing, I'm considering going into healthcare. I figure it will be good to use my Biology degree and hopefully feel like I'm making a difference at the end of the day.

[DWill]

reading

The end of Faith by Sam harris
Collection of works by Thomas Paine

Just read

The Strain and
The Fall, by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan.

Le me know what you're thinking about the Harris book, johnson. I think Dexter's idea to read his new one here was a good one.

[DWill]

Just purchased Decision Points. by G.W. Bush. Have to get his take.
Randy

I'm waiting to see the first review of W's book. Bush redux is now all over the media.