What are you reading?

[SuMar]

Life's That Way ~ A Memoir

 

[Mustang]

This is Carl Sagan's last book (written along with his wife, Ann Druyan). It was finished even as Sagan was dying from pneumonia in late 1996 after a recurrence of myelodysplasia, and published after his death.


Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

I also highly recommend his 1995 book, The Demon-Haunted World.


The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark


To read more about Carl Sagan...

Carl Sagan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[SFC Ollie]

Winters Moon
Dean Koontz

 

[Mustang]

"In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote


In Cold Blood

 

[midcan5]

'Blood Meridian' Cormac McCarthy, reads like poetry. Love all his stuff, while investigating some of his references I came across this site others may find useful.

Blood Meridian - Book Drum
Book Drum - The Book Drum World Map

 

[Mustang]

'Blood Meridian' Cormac McCarthy, reads like poetry. Love all his stuff, while investigating some of his references I came across this site others may find useful.

Blood Meridian - Book Drum
Book Drum - The Book Drum World Map

I've read 4 of McCarthy's books. The whole Border Trilogy series, and The Road. But I hear that Blood Meridian is supposed to be his masterpiece.

 

[Mustang]

"American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America" by Chris Hedges



American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America

Definitely worth a read.

 

[Noomi]

Carla Neggers 'Just Before Sunrise'

 

[JohnL.Burke]

Winters Moon
Dean Koontz

Top 5 Dean Koontz books.
1. Tick Tock
2. Watchers
3. Midnight
4, Lightning
5. Phantoms

 

[BDBoop]

One of the early Kelley Armstrong Underworld books.

 

[Noomi]

Carla Neggers ' Night Scents'.

 

[Noomi]

Winters Moon
Dean Koontz

Top 5 Dean Koontz books.
1. Tick Tock
2. Watchers
3. Midnight
4, Lightning
5. Phantoms

I LOVE Lightening. Great book, highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't yet read it!

 

[editec]

The Great Deformation by David Stockman.

Basically he's reaffirming what I am reading from other economists ...that this nation is now captured by an elite group of insiders who, using the power of the FED and the banks that own it, are RAPING THE WORLD though manipulation of the currencies.

Oh incidentlky when I say other economists?

I am talking about economists who are usually thought to be either leftists or rightests...they are ALL telling us the same sad story.

 

[koshergrl]

I could never get into Koontz. I have stumbled through couple of his books, and they never took with me. I find him depressing, and boring, and predictable.

I went to St. Vinnie's the other day when I was looking for ways to avoid doing dishes, and I picked up "lost girl lost boy" or maybe it's "lost boy lost girl" by Peter Straub. And I think I like it. His books are always a little hard at the beginning, I find them tedious and I always have to go back because I'll find myself 50 pages in and discover I managed to completely miss a premise that apparently the entire book is going to hinge on....he did that to me with Ghost Story too. But I love Ghost Story, and I hope I will like this one. Once I get started. I've gone back to the beginning twice, but this last time I think it took...

On my bed I also have Bones by Joyce Thompson and Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes.

 

[BDBoop]

I could never get into Koontz. I have stumbled through couple of his books, and they never took with me. I find him depressing, and boring, and predictable.

I went to St. Vinnie's the other day when I was looking for ways to avoid doing dishes, and I picked up "lost girl lost boy" or maybe it's "lost boy lost girl" by Peter Straub. And I think I like it. His books are always a little hard at the beginning, I find them tedious and I always have to go back because I'll find myself 50 pages in and discover I managed to completely miss a premise that apparently the entire book is going to hinge on....he did that to me with Ghost Story too. But I love Ghost Story, and I hope I will like this one. Once I get started. I've gone back to the beginning twice, but this last time I think it took...

On my bed I also have Bones by Joyce Thompson and Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes.

I have been a life-long reader, or as close to it as one can get. Read Little Women when I was eight. So you can imagine my surprise when I called my nephew about fifty pages into Game of Thrones and said "TOO MANY CHARACTERS! I CANNOT FOLLOW!" He told me to calm down and keep reading, it would be worth it.

He was right. I think that must have been my first experience with the switched viewpoints of storytelling (not first person, but still quite confusing).

 

[Mustang]

Another Chris Hedges book. Interesting stuff



Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

 

[Unkotare]

Ferris, Dana, Treatment of Error in Second Language Student Writing

 

[BDBoop]

Triptych, Karen Slaughter.

 

[Mustang]

"MaddAddam" by Margaret Atwood


MaddAddam: A Novel

This is the just-published 3rd book in Atwood's trilogy about a dystopian future. The 1st was "Oryx & Crake" which was published in 2003.http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17262203-maddaddam The 2nd was "The Year of the Flood" which was published in 2009.

 

[BDBoop]

I blame Kindle for the fact that I read several books simultaneously.

Next, I'm going to try to find the best book of what happened during the McCarthy era.