What books are you reading right now?

The Man in the High Castle was a quick, enjoyable read. Now that I've watched to intro episode of the Amazon series, I can tell you that your speculation is totally correct. Same world, same(ish) character names as the book, but the rolls, relationships and activities are not the same. I'm gonna have to try to suspend my recollections from the book if I'm gonna enjoy the series.

Downloaded another Sedgwick sci-fi, supposedly more professionally proofread, and a E H Reinhard thriller (a Kindle freebie, so nothing lost but time, if it sucks).

 

Almost finished with As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride (Cary Elwes), and it is absolutely wonderful. Autobiography of Neil Patrick Harris is next. Aaaaaand Eden got me a Kindle Paperwhite for Christmas (w00t!), so reading ~2ish books a week will resume again shortly.

 

I finished Bluesman by Andre Dubus III. Question--How do you pronounce Dubus? I know that Dubois is pronounced Due-bwaw.

It was a good read, for the most part. I'm glad that I have at least some understanding of music because there are many parts where AD goes into too much detail on matching keys, chord progressions, etc. I was again disappointed by the ending of yet another novel. It's bad when you start getting close to the end of a novel and realize there is no way the author can wrap things up without the resolutions being impossibly quick.

 

I'm 104 pages into The Native Moment the first novel by Anthony C. West, published in 1959. It's a mix of novel, poetry, & philosophy, and in some ways reminds me of reading Faulkner at his rambling/experimental worst. I'll finish it just because sometimes I'm stubborn when if comes to reading difficult books.

 

The Everlasting by Leonard Bishop.

Reincarnation, murder, faith, my friend was a bit blown away by the whole thing.
So far seems pretty basic but we'll see.

 

I finished As You Wish (it made me want to watch the movie again to look for things he mentioned) and Shockaholic (enjoyable, but not as much as Wishful Drinking. Less focused and more rambly, which I guess is understandable with ECT.)



Currently halfway(ish) through Felicia Day's You're Never Weird On the Internet (Almost), and I'm enjoying it (she makes me cringe at times, not so much because of the awkwardness, but because I identify all too well with the awkwardness.) I did start the NPH autobiography, too, but I'm finding it a little hard to focus on.



I would say 2016 appears to be the Year of the Autobiography, but I'm pretty sure I started 2015 with several autobiographies as well and then moved back to fiction.

 

I seriously cannot express how excited I am that you are reading this. I am totally looking forward to hearing your reactions to both text and scholarship.

 

Trust Your Heart by Judy Collins. I'm skeptical of celebrity autobiographies because many of the ones I've read suck; at the half way point this one pretty good.

 

Hiaasen's books are reliably consistent. If you enjoyed Star Island, you'll enjoy the rest.
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I am reading Infinite Jest. Well, listening to the audio book, while referring to the end-notes on my Kindle, and keeping track of the reader's guide (Elegant Complexity) on my Android. It's... complicated.

 

The Brink: Stories, by Austin Bunn. I like short story collections, and (most of) these are intriguing. All have a sort of "end of the world"ish theme, though that's presented in different ways. One is from the POV of a Heaven's Gate cult member; one is about a video game world ending; one is about a woman getting divorced and finding out her septuagenarian mother is sexually active, for example. Some are better than others, but I've enjoyed all of them so far.

 

Trust Your Heart turned out to be fairly superficial, not a good read for casual fans. To her credit, Collins didn't resort to sordid stories about her fellow musicians. Some of her attempts at sharing her personal life were successful, but many seemed hesitant, as though she wanted to open up yet wouldn't or couldn't. She included many, many names of people she had met and/or worked with. I'm not sure if she did this to be accurate, or was trying to impress the reader.

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The Intuitionist a novel by Colson Whitehead.

Race relations and power struggles within the profession of.....

elevator inspecting. Say what?

I'm about 1/4 into it.

 

Just downloaded (kindle sale for $1.99) Gutenberg's Apprentice, historical fiction of the creation of the "darkest art" of the printing press and the intrigue surrounding the first printing of the Bible.

 

Judd Apatow's "Sick in the Head." So far, not as funny as I expected, but an interesting read.