What books are you reading these days?

[jiveturkey]

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. I'm only a hundred pages in so I can't give an synopsis other than to say it's about a young Japanese runaway and "an aging simpleton" who can talk to cats. Strange yes, but Murakami is considered to be brilliant. So far the writing is great but I have no idea where it's going.

 

[kombiguy]

Echo Park by Michael Connely
A Summary of the Summa Theologiae by a Benedictine Monk
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

 

[fairybasslet]

The Ruins by Scott Smith authof of A Simple Plan

 

[makomike]

Read Shadow Divers and liked so much i have bought copies for a couple of my students. GREAT as everyone has noted. Also read Caverns Measureless to Man by Sheck Exley. It is a good book on cave diving history from his POV. Just finished Deep Descent and will be rereading Encyclopedia of Diving until i choose my next read.

 

[Midnight Star]

Finished "The Silent World" by Jacques Cousteau, and now am reading two written by Bruce Lee.

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Mike.

 

[Fly N Dive]

Robert Parker's Spencer novels

 

[F UNit]

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. I'm only a hundred pages in so I can't give an synopsis other than to say it's about a young Japanese runaway and "an aging simpleton" who can talk to cats. Strange yes, but Murakami is considered to be brilliant. So far the writing is great but I have no idea where it's going.

I've read a few of Murakami's books - strange stuff at first, you really dunno where it's going but I've enjoyed them all

 

[pupdiver]

I am reading The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall. It is about a tattoo artist in Coney Island in the 1930s and 40s. Really stunningly good writing. I guess that explains why it was nominated for the Man Booker Prize.

Shadow Divers is next on the agenda.

 

[plsander]

I'm finishing up the Discworld series -- got my son hooked on that line of books. Got tired of trying to explain why I was laughing while reading.

Starting in on Eric Flint's 1632 series (http://www.1632.org/)... Throw a 2001 West Virginia coal mining town into 1632 Germany.

 

[justleesa]

I went to the store the other day and saw the book "The Christmas Shoes" on the shelf. I had seen the made for TV movie a year or two ago so I bought it. Book is always better than the movie, right?

It's a short story, but it took me a couple of days to finish. Mainly because I had to stop when my nose got all stuffy and it got hard to read thru the tears...I'm such a sap....a very touching little story. I'm thinking it would make a nice gift.