What books are you reading right now?

The movie was interesting, I liked that the setting was kept true by Universal Studios, and the Toronto vibe came through. "Bathurst Street is practically the cerebral cortex of Scott Pilgrim" * Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

"The Explosive Child" by Ross Greene. For the eighty-billionth time.

 

Time for my annual re-read of The Wheel of Time series. Just about to finish book #3. Eleven more to go.

 

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
Amazing, sobering, useful stuff

 

Spoiler alert!

Spoiler alert!



What a weird book, Middlepost by Antony Sher. Every character, with the possible exception of a woman who has a flatulence problem that isn't her fault, is flawed, some much more than others. I couldn't figure out if the main character was truly an imbecile, or just clueless when it was convenient. How could a person spend over two years in South Africa, yet only learn five words of English, and no Afrikaner? Imfuckingpossible. Why would he sick a mob on the only two people, natives who had worked as servants, whohad gone out of their way to be nice to him without wanting something in return? Perhaps it was his surrender to the dark side, as the end of the book (which sucks) seems to indicate.

 

My Life As An Explorer by Sven Hedin (1925). I'm back to reading this, a little at a time because for some reason this seems to work best for me.

I'm going to start The Best American Short Stories of the Century (1999), John Updike, Editor, Katrina Kennison, Co-Editor. Like the Maugham short stories collection, I'll read these 2-3 at a time.

Now I need to dig through my Will-Get-To-Someday stack of books. One benefit of buying books dirt cheap is they can sit for a while with no guilt, no late fees, etc. I very rarely pay more than $2.00 for a HBwDJ unless it's a very rare book with some $$ value, or maybe a Coffee Table book that cost a small fortune new (would you buy Scott Adams 20 Years of Dilbert in the slip case in VG+/NM condition $2.99?).

 

do you have an author? I searched Amazon.ca and found S. by Doug Dorst (&J.J. Abrams)

 

I heard that Alpa Cino and Lance Bass liked it.

 

Speaking of which ... ahem... Book 20 of the Jack Reacher series is on the book store shelves now. Make Me was going for a 25% discount on the hardcover at Coles today. I will be looking for the epub tonight.

 

Just picked up The Jazz Palace.

 

Quote from near the end of the book: 'I don't believe it, she said. But of course she did. She grokked its rightness right away.'

Love it.

 

I finally finished My Life As An Explorer by Sven Hedin. An interesting read if Tibet & the surrounding areas, and/or life-and-death exploration, is of interest to you. I enjoyed it, but read it in small doses.


For a quick & easy-on-the-brain read, I'm about halfway through The Printer's Devil, a Young Adult novel by Paul Bajoria. The main character is a 12 year old boy--a runaway orphan barely scraping by working in a print shop, but grateful for the job--turned detective.


Blindness (1995) by Jose Saragamo, a Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize For Literature in 1998. I'm about 40 pages into this novel. So far the social commentary and philosophical musings don't fit well with a book about a mysterious blindness. It'll be interesting to see where Saragamo takes this novel.

 

BabySquirrel got a package in the mail from a very cool kid here on TFP.

Thank you @Cynthetiq for the new books.