So, what are you reading now?

[Craig3410]

I'm currently reading biographies of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Cobb">Ty Cobb and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honus_Wagner">Honus Wagner

What's the Lounge reading?

[XNASA]

1. 'Wicked'

My son got it for me for Christmas. I didn't think I'd like it, but it's a fun read.

[wildhorses]

2. this thread...

sorry.could.not.resist.




:silly:

[tjwmason]

3. 2 books on the go at the moment.

"A History of the Arab Peoples" Albert Hourani,
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0571226647/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_1/203-6108172-0478366

"Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire" - Jason Goodwin
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805040811/qid=1137684291/sr=1-9/ref=sr_1_0_9/203-6108172-0478366

I'm looking for a good book on the history of Islam too, if any lizzards know any to recommend.

[SaveElmer]

4. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow...and

Darwinism COmes to America by Ronald Numbers...and soon to start Doris Kearns Goodwin's new Lincoln book!

[cassandra uprising]

5. Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin n/t

[LaraMN]

6. A Guide to Professional Writing in the Arts. Textbook.

:bounce:

[EstimatedProphet]

7. Blinded by the Right-David Brooks

About his turn from the Dark Side

[bertha katzenengel]

8. _Lazy B_, a memoir by Sandra Day O'Connor (growing up on a ranch) n/t

[AlCzervik]

9. 1776 by David McCullough.

[GalleryGod]

10. Joan Didion

Two books at once...."The Year of Magical Thinking" and "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"

[skygazer]

11. A couple of things

The Dark Valley by Piers Brendan - it's an overview of the 1930's worldwide and how events coalesced into WWII. Very interesting.

Lincoln's Melancholy by Joshua Wolf Shenk - about how clinical depression shaped Lincoln and his life. Also very good.

Trouble In Mind by Leon F. Litwack - about the lives of southern blacks during the Jim Crow years. Heartbreaking and grim but very, very good.

And for light reading, The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien.

I tend to read multiple books at a time.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

12. "The War Zone" by Alexander Stuart

It's very well written, but quite hard going.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0099716607

[azmouse]

13. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser