Author Topic: What are you reading? (Read 205092 times)

mendoza11 · « **Reply #360 on:** December 04, 2010, 12:02:44 AM »

eggers' how we are hungry
life of galileo
and nest of spies (a book about how canadians are totally inept at catchign the spies that apparently plague the country -- it will turn you into a mccartyite)

shurrupak · « **Reply #361 on:** December 23, 2010, 02:05:28 PM »

Bernard Werber (french writer) : "les fourmis "

muppet · « **Reply #362 on:** December 23, 2010, 04:08:46 PM »

"Pearl Buck in China- Journey to The Good Earth"
by Hilary Spurling

LaJon · « **Reply #363 on:** December 23, 2010, 04:16:44 PM »

Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky

mendoza11 · « **Reply #364 on:** December 24, 2010, 10:04:57 PM »

american lion by jon meacham

Tuffty · « **Reply #365 on:** January 01, 2011, 05:28:43 PM »

Empire of Silver - Book 4 of 'The Conqueror Series' - Conn Iggulden
Insurrection - Book 1 of the 'Insurrection' trilogy - Robyn Young

Both historical fiction novels. Empire of Silver continues to tell the story of Genghis Khan's dynasty and Insurrection tells the story of Scottish warrior, Robert the Bruce. Both are pretty epic.

Rickker708 · « **Reply #366 on:** January 02, 2011, 08:50:45 AM »

Towers of Midnight: the latest in the Wheel of time series.
With Robert Jordan passing away, Brandon Sanderson was picked to finish the series off.
So far I have been very impressed with his writing. A lot of my friends have stopped reading several books back because the story was getting very convoluted and run down.

mendoza11 · « **Reply #367 on:** January 02, 2011, 08:24:48 PM »

team of rivals by doris kearns goodwin

Quote from: Newsweek

Asked in January by CBS anchor Katie Couric which book, aside from the Bible, he would find essential in the Oval Office, Obama answered, "Team of Rivals."

it's about the politics during lincoln's election/s and presidency, and i've been meaning to read it ever since that month or so when the media wouldn't shut up about the idea of obama assmebling a team of rivals. i'm halfway in, which means i'm just getting to the presidency part, where we get to read about the team in action. going into this book, i was expecting it to be more of an extolment of lincoln the open-minded bipartisan, but instead the creation of his 'team of rivals' sounds more like the work of lincoln the wily politician than anything else.

i also have to mention that there is a metric ton of bromance in this book, in which politicians cry manly tears while writing passionate letters to their soulmates (who are also politicans)

Amplifier · « **Reply #368 on:** January 15, 2011, 09:06:33 PM »

I just finished reading Norwegian Wood yesterday. I'm currently working on a Tolstoy collection, "The Death of Ivan Ilych" in particular. "Kreutzer Sontata" up next, and Brothers Karamazov ready for tomorrow.

Yoshino · « **Reply #369 on:** January 15, 2011, 10:40:58 PM »

3rd in the series of Japanese-American assasin John Rain.

mendoza11 · « **Reply #370 on:** January 15, 2011, 11:05:24 PM »

just came home from the library with this, and looking forward to it:

Amplifier · « **Reply #371 on:** January 16, 2011, 03:32:40 PM »

Check out the 2011 50 Book Challenge!

almond · « **Reply #372 on:** January 23, 2011, 06:02:54 AM »

I recently finished the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Highly recommended

Disco · « **Reply #373 on:** January 24, 2011, 04:24:05 AM »

I finished The Fellowship of the Ring last night, Starting on Two Towers now.

Scatterbrain · « **Reply #374 on:** January 30, 2011, 02:39:40 AM »

This book:

It's quite slow at the beginning, but in the middle of it... well, I couldn't stop reading it.

muppet · « **Reply #375 on:** January 30, 2011, 04:28:27 AM »

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by (the late) Stieg Larsson

mendoza11 · « **Reply #376 on:** February 02, 2011, 07:48:26 PM »

i finished this a couple of days ago:

definitely recommended if you haven't overdosed on obama biography yet. it covers up to his inauguration all the way from his grandfather, and the focus is on how his presidency fits in african-american history.

Yoshino · « **Reply #377 on:** February 02, 2011, 10:47:48 PM »

Quote from: almond on January 23, 2011, 06:02:54 AM

I recently finished the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Highly recommended

That was really good, sort of a tamer version of Battle Royale, want to read the 2 sequels but there's about a 2 month wait at the libraries.

Currently this, she writes about the mundane lifes of mundane British people.

Disco · « **Reply #378 on:** February 13, 2011, 05:10:21 PM »

Finished:

Onto:

Yoshino · « **Reply #379 on:** February 13, 2011, 08:55:30 PM »

6th book of the Investigator Renko of the Moscow Police Dept. series, the first book, Gorky Park, was made into a movie which turned out to be a really good watch.

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