What Are You Reading?

[Walter Oobleck]

....with words or pictures?

yep. some words. pictures on the cover.

Nice. I didn't know you could read.

yep...read quite a bit. this'll be #93 or 94 for the year. over at goodreads you can use the site to track what you read. nice. used to do that, from time-to-time in a journal, but the site does it for you. wish i could remember all of the books i read...i'm close, maybe, one will come to me now and then, i'll add it to my list of books read. read this story about a whale...or whales, time that richard adams girl on a swing was out? can't remember the title. i've looked, asked, to no avail, alas. about whales and squid, realistically told. too much information, hey? so now you know.

Not reading palms anymore, Walt?

just my own. have some paint...or caulk on the meat of my thumb...my hands look pretty rough. heh! i hate this time of year, the skin cracks. lotion. have some lotion if i could just remember to put it on. tastes like paint. latex.

here's a quote from the book i'm reading, dog-eared the bottom of the page, a curious quote, all things considered:
how sweet it is to hate one's native land and avidly await its ruin...and in its ruin to discern the dawn of universal renaissance. (pecherin) i say curious because of the native land in question, russia, mother russia, or the soviet union...story is the time of reagan, gorby? and perhaps this nation's time? ruin. dostoyevksy, in his the idiot, makes some remarkable observations about russia, the land that became the u.s.s.r. and judging by putin's recall, the same kind of mindset is prevalent today there? this feeling of belief that things are better in france? or wherever? that some other culture...or is it politics?...is better than mother russia? since dosty was writing before the bolsheviks jumped in the pan, it is curious, the mindset...this hatred for all things russian, as dosty wrote in the idiot. some great lines in dostoyevky's story. i recommend it. this one is the russia house by le carre. curious because if what i was told in the ole anthropology course, one must love one's culture for that culture to endure. if one hates one's culture, one will certainly change that culture...for the better or the worse. or the ruin. as we saw back in the u.s.s.r. as we are seeing here in this country. c'est la vie.

i'm reading a book.

 

[80sFan]

Great show and the actor who played Capone was fantastic. Ironically his son's health issues were the product of syphilis. Capone contracted the disease and passed it to his son via his mother. By all accounts Capone was a great father which is one of the interesting anomalies of his character. How he was a good family man but also a monster.

Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

 

[carrie's younger brother]

Mostly everything I "know" about Capone comes from how he was portrayed in Boardwalk Empire.
I'm sure that the charater was highly dramatized, but there was mention of his son being deaf and Capone being very sensitive about that.

Sort of on the subject, a fun preteen read is Al Capone Does My Shirts. It's about a kid who lives with his family on Alcatraz when it is was a running prison (his dad is a prison guard). The families of the prison workers actually did live on the island. There are a couple of sequels to this book but I have not read them.

 

[Haunted]

I am reading McCammon's Last Train From Perdition. Using one of my gift cards I ordered Dracula vs. Hitler by Patrick Sheane Duncan should have in hand by Tuesday. Also going to pick up McCammon's Freedom of the Mask again to see if I can get past the mental block that developed earlier. I just finished So Cold the River by Michael Koryta; it was definitely different.

 

[Haunted]

Sort of on the subject, a fun preteen read is Al Capone Does My Shirts. It's about a kid who lives with his family on Alcatraz when it is was a running prison (his dad is a prison guard). The families of the prison workers actually did live on the island. There are a couple of sequels to this book but I have not read them.

That's sounds so interesting; I will have to chase it down!

 

[80sFan]

Finished We Were Liars. I didn't know it was YA when I bought it (I've enjoyed a few YA novels in the past, just not my favorite genre) but I realized pretty quickly that it was a teen book.
I bought it because it was on a list of "books with a twist". I LOVE twisty books, but I didn't even consider the "twist" a surprise (in fact, I kept reading to see if there was maybe a bigger twist??).
It was so obvious to me.
Other than that, the story just felt repetitive. Not worth $8.

 

[80sFan]

Starting Requiem for a Dream later. It's been on my TBR for a while. Never saw the film either.

 

[kingricefan]

yep. some words. pictures on the cover.



yep...read quite a bit. this'll be #93 or 94 for the year. over at goodreads you can use the site to track what you read. nice. used to do that, from time-to-time in a journal, but the site does it for you. wish i could remember all of the books i read...i'm close, maybe, one will come to me now and then, i'll add it to my list of books read. read this story about a whale...or whales, time that richard adams girl on a swing was out? can't remember the title. i've looked, asked, to no avail, alas. about whales and squid, realistically told. too much information, hey? so now you know.



just my own. have some paint...or caulk on the meat of my thumb...my hands look pretty rough. heh! i hate this time of year, the skin cracks. lotion. have some lotion if i could just remember to put it on. tastes like paint. latex.

here's a quote from the book i'm reading, dog-eared the bottom of the page, a curious quote, all things considered:
how sweet it is to hate one's native land and avidly await its ruin...and in its ruin to discern the dawn of universal renaissance. (pecherin) i say curious because of the native land in question, russia, mother russia, or the soviet union...story is the time of reagan, gorby? and perhaps this nation's time? ruin. dostoyevksy, in his the idiot, makes some remarkable observations about russia, the land that became the u.s.s.r. and judging by putin's recall, the same kind of mindset is prevalent today there? this feeling of belief that things are better in france? or wherever? that some other culture...or is it politics?...is better than mother russia? since dosty was writing before the bolsheviks jumped in the pan, it is curious, the mindset...this hatred for all things russian, as dosty wrote in the idiot. some great lines in dostoyevky's story. i recommend it. this one is the russia house by le carre. curious because if what i was told in the ole anthropology course, one must love one's culture for that culture to endure. if one hates one's culture, one will certainly change that culture...for the better or the worse. or the ruin. as we saw back in the u.s.s.r. as we are seeing here in this country. c'est la vie.

i'm reading a book.

Walt, make sure you put the lotion in the basket after you put it on......

 

[no bounce no play]

I finished the Blade Runner book "Edge of Human" and was really disappointed with it.
Seriously struggling to think of any redeeming features for it...at all...

Started Darkness Comes by Koontz, seems okay so far.
Also picked up a copy of WOOL by High Howey to read next

I read Wool and liked it a lot - I like world building sci-fi. There's some good fan art of the Silo online.

 

[Doc Creed]

yep. some words. pictures on the cover.



yep...read quite a bit. this'll be #93 or 94 for the year. over at goodreads you can use the site to track what you read. nice. used to do that, from time-to-time in a journal, but the site does it for you. wish i could remember all of the books i read...i'm close, maybe, one will come to me now and then, i'll add it to my list of books read. read this story about a whale...or whales, time that richard adams girl on a swing was out? can't remember the title. i've looked, asked, to no avail, alas. about whales and squid, realistically told. too much information, hey? so now you know.



just my own. have some paint...or caulk on the meat of my thumb...my hands look pretty rough. heh! i hate this time of year, the skin cracks. lotion. have some lotion if i could just remember to put it on. tastes like paint. latex.

here's a quote from the book i'm reading, dog-eared the bottom of the page, a curious quote, all things considered:
how sweet it is to hate one's native land and avidly await its ruin...and in its ruin to discern the dawn of universal renaissance. (pecherin) i say curious because of the native land in question, russia, mother russia, or the soviet union...story is the time of reagan, gorby? and perhaps this nation's time? ruin. dostoyevksy, in his the idiot, makes some remarkable observations about russia, the land that became the u.s.s.r. and judging by putin's recall, the same kind of mindset is prevalent today there? this feeling of belief that things are better in france? or wherever? that some other culture...or is it politics?...is better than mother russia? since dosty was writing before the bolsheviks jumped in the pan, it is curious, the mindset...this hatred for all things russian, as dosty wrote in the idiot. some great lines in dostoyevky's story. i recommend it. this one is the russia house by le carre. curious because if what i was told in the ole anthropology course, one must love one's culture for that culture to endure. if one hates one's culture, one will certainly change that culture...for the better or the worse. or the ruin. as we saw back in the u.s.s.r. as we are seeing here in this country. c'est la vie.

i'm reading a book.

Thanks for sharing the quote and your comments. I agree. Unfortunately, I haven't read The Idiot or any Dostoyevsky. There are a couple LeCarre novels trusted friends have recommended but I haven't chosen one yet. Tempus fugit...and all that.

 

[Stranger.Danger]

I recently read The Steppe, The Duel, and The Story of an Unknown Man by Anton Chekhov. All of which were good Short Novels. I'm currently reading the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, and I plan to start Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls after I finish it.

 

[Shiney]

Finished PERVERSE HUMANITY by Kyle Lybeck, now reading STRANDED by Bracken MacLeod.

 

[MadBoJangles]

I read Wool and liked it a lot - I like world building sci-fi. There's some good fan art of the Silo online.

I have been wanting to read it for a while now, but could never find a copy.
Ordered Shift as well as I found it ridiculously cheap online!
Really looking forward to starting it

 

[Neesy]

a book.

This one?

 

[AchtungBaby]

Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Vol. 4-6

 

[Walter Oobleck]

i am reading...a book! book! book! book!
or is it bork! bork! bork!
bow wow wow...i really stink when i'm wet...yeah, i really stink when i'm wet.
another sandford prey story...sandford, like has been said elsewhere, hits 'em outta da park...cubs up, hippi ky aye. either or, indians, cubs...indians haven't won since what, 68 years? cubs ever? lost to detroit in what was it? '42? sorry for the hijack.

 

[Haunted]

I am reading McCammon's Last Train From Perdition. Using one of my gift cards I ordered Dracula vs. Hitler by Patrick Sheane Duncan should have in hand by Tuesday. Also going to pick up McCammon's Freedom of the Mask again to see if I can get past the mental block that developed earlier. I just finished So Cold the River by Michael Koryta; it was definitely different.

Finished Last Train from Perdition and can only beg Mr. McCammon for MORE, MORE, MORE. This second book of which I hope is a long series introduced

Spoiler

new characters and hints of more adventure!

 

[MadBoJangles]

100 or so pages into WOOL and I am utterly hooked.
I always approach new (to me at least) authors with trepidation.
Despite the great reviews, I do wonder if I will take to their style of writing etc.

No such problems with Hugh Howey (for me) though, absolutely loving it.
Ordered books 2 and 3 in the series too

 

[RichardX]

I haven't read this one but it is getting some good reviews for a "horror" novel.

"The Fisherman" by John Langan:

a book review by Barry Lee Dejasu: The Fisherman

 

[muskrat]

i am reading...a book! book! book! book!
or is it bork! bork! bork!
bow wow wow...i really stink when i'm wet...yeah, i really stink when i'm wet.
another sandford prey story...sandford, like has been said elsewhere, hits 'em outta da park...cubs up, hippi ky aye. either or, indians, cubs...indians haven't won since what, 68 years? cubs ever? lost to detroit in what was it? '42? sorry for the hijack.

Or was it a book about Bjork?

I bet she stinks when she's wet, too.