What books are you reading right now?

The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues

A history of Greenwich Village from the 1600s to the present and its influence on American literature, music, art, politics, social movements.....

 

The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir, by John Grogan

 

Decided last night to reread the Whores on the Hill by Colleen Curran. It's honestly not as good as I remembered it, which is kind of disappointing.

 

I bought, started, and finished Divergent by Veronica Roth last night. Very Hunger Games-ish-- dystopian society set in Chicago; kickass female protagonist; factions instead of districts, though. I'll probably be getting the second book soon.

 

No. Damn it.

 

Just now finished Insurgent, and went to check the price on the third book, Allegiant. IT DOESN'T COME OUT UNTIL OCTOBER. Harrumph.

The ending was...kind of a let down, I'll be honest. The big shocking reveal was more like, "um...what?" Definitely curious to see what comes of it, though.

 

Fringe-ology

 

Just finished Justin Cronin (I think that's right) - The Twelve. It was the sequel to The Passage. Pretty good for paranormal vampire apocalypse stories.

Currently reading Dan Brown. About halfway through.

 

Going way back to high school. Reading Mythology by Edith Hamilton.

 

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

 

Scrimshaw by D. Lawrence Lee.

My best friend has finally finished and been published. I love his song writing, but his prose style is taking some getting used to. I'm just a few chapters onto it. Hoping it smooths out once the character intros get out of the way of the story telling.

 

I finally finished up The Drunk Diet (I was only a chapter and a half from the end, not sure why I stopped that close.) I've been indulging in the pure trashy fluff that is Sweet Valley... this time The Sweet Life, a seven part serial. Finished the sixth installment a couple nights ago, have yet to start the seventh. I've been switching between that and Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon.

 

I'm over 500 pages into 1Q84.and I really like it. Except that I'm not quite halfway through. I think I might be sad when it's over, that's why I'm reading ng it so slowly. But, I can't do less than 50 pages at a time.. It totally sucks me in.

 

I was literally just about to write almost the same thing in this thread! I'm a little less than halfway through as well. Getting mildly obsessed with it.

 

nick turse: kill anything that moves--the real american war in vietnam.

Peter Van Buren: Review: Nick Turse's Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

henri atlan: sparks of randomness

The Sparks of Randomness, Volume 1: Spermatic Knowledge - Henri Atlan, Translated by Lenn J. Schramm

and a couple other things here and there that i forget.