It's September, and back to school time. So, tell us what you've recently finished and what has your attention now.
Me? I read Under the Banner of Heaven for last month's book club and am still re-reading the Harry Potter Books. Gotta hit the magazines this month, too, before they become a fire hazard.
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (a little nonsensical fun) as well as Farewell to Eden: Coming to Terms with Mormonism and Science by Duwayne R. Anderson.
My reading in the past month has been anything but serious. I've been suffering from information overload in my work (I write financial markets news for some websites in the UK, and things have been, um, busy the past little while, as you may know if you've been paying attention to the news), so I've tended to stay away from anything too serious in my off-work time.
So, in August, I read The Ritual Bath, Straight into Darkness, and The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights, all by Faye Kellerman; Gone, by Jonathan Kellerman; and Dress Her in Indigo, by John D. MacDonald.
Now, I'm reading The Black Echo, by Michael Connelly, and I suspect that next up will be Stravaganza: City of Masks, by Mary Hoffman. The latter is a YA fantasy which comes highly recommended, so I thought I'd give it a try.
I suppose I'm going to have to read something more serious soon, and I've got Brotherhood of the Bomb, by Gregg Herken (about Ernest Lawrence, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, and the developent of nuclear weapons) out of the library presently, but I don't know yet whether I'm in the mood to read it right now.
I will admit it. I got into the whole Twighlight/New Moon thing. One good thing about being sick, I had a lot of reading time. Finished them each in one night. I'm waiting desperetly for my sister to finish the third in the series so I can. What can I say, I'm being a silly romantic. While I'm waiting, I'm rereading Pride and Prejudice. My poor husband....(I did watch all three Die Hards this weekend to make it up to him.)
I'm also reading Little House in the Big Woods aloud to my two little boys. I thought maybe they were still too young, but they love it.
I wanted some light reading this month so I've just started "Roughing it" by Mark Twain. I've heard it mentioned a time or two and like his other writings so thought it was a good fit. So far, it's pretty entertaining.
I'm reading "Adopted Son" which is a biography of Washington and Lafayette. Then I am reading "Wonderful Tonight which is Patti Boyd's account offl life with George Harrison and Eric Clapton. I'm also planning on reading "Reading Judas" by Elaine Pagals and "The Horse that God Built" which i s about Secretariat.
I'm also reading Perdido Street Station by China Mieville, and Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (for the second time). Plus I've been perusing my shiny green new copy of White Wolf's Changeling: the Lost.
I couldn't read fiction for years. Everything was non-fiction. i.e. Leaving the Saints, Under the Banner of Heaven, blah, blah, blah.
Then I discovered one of my non-fiction authors, Yasmine Galenorn, had given up writing non-fiction and started writing fiction. I enjoyed her Chintz and China mystery series. I then discovered Victoria Laurie and her Abby Cooper, Psychic Investigator series, read the first one and ordered the series. My latest amazon arrivals are Practical Intuition by Laura Day, and Aaagh! I Think I'm Psychic (And You Can Be Too) by Natasha J. Rosewood, both recommendations from Victoria Laurie.
beenthere:I'm also reading Little House in the Big Woods aloud to my two little boys. I thought maybe they were still too young, but they love it.
Good choice. I finished reading this to my kids (age 5 to 8) earlier this year.
I read Digital Fortress by Dan Brown, not his greatest work but readable. For my birthday I got myself Jared Diamond's Collapse and even better, the special illustrated edition of A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. The kids have even taken to gathering around while I read to see the pictures and ask about the universe and how far away the stars are.
