What are you reading tonight DU? I'm reading "Loving frank" by Nancy Horan.

[applegrove]

It is a novel based on a love affair between frank lloyd Wright and his mistress. Really good so far. I highly recommend it.

[struggle4progress]

1. Revelation & Revolution: Basic Writings of Thomas Muntzer

The Peasants Rebellion was a primitive communist revolutionary attempt during the Reformation. Muntzer and Luther, who knew and despised each other, took opposite sides: Muntzer supporting, Luther opposing. Engels wrote a short book on the topic, based on secondary sources. I expect the politics of the rebellion probably helped shape early protestant theology

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. Well, since you asked, I' reading "Deliver us from Evil" by

David Baldacci.

My wife has a friend from across the pond that enjoy's the same kind of crap I enjoy. Ie: Ian Flemming type stuff. They meet once a year and we exchange books. She sends me about 20 books by authors that she enjoys and I try to reciprocate. None of this will stimulate you intellectually but I really need a break from worrying about the state of the planet! Sometimes, you just need to escape!

[applegrove]

3. I read gossip magazines to rest my mind.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Wright was such an asshole. Creative, yes; but as a human? Fuck. I'm reading Dune.

About a whole shitload of people who make really shitty humans.

But, of course, much more than that.

[Petrushka]

5. Just finishing re-reading "Modern Japenese Tanka", an anthology edited & translated by Makoto Ueda.

Next, i'll try to finish Harold Bloom's anthology of "American Religious Poems."

http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=246

[clyrc]

6. I read that!

Now, I'm reading "A Problem from Hell" by Samantha Power, and "An Accidental Family" by Dostoevsky. "A Problem from Hell" is about as depressing and horrifying as you would expect a book about genocide to be, but so far "An Accidental Family" isn't as depressing as other Dostoevsky books.

[applegrove]

7. I like Samantha Power though I've never read anything of hers. I'll look into it. Is it about

Darfur?

[JCMach1]

8. No, it was published in 2003

It is about the American reaction to the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda. It is worth reading, but it is also scary. And sad, of course.

Oops, posted under my husband's name by accident- clyrc

[TorchTheWitch]

9. The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye

Quite an enjoyable read. It's set in India during the earlier time the British ruled (later 1800's). Though a love story between a British boy who grew up in India believing he was Indian during his early years and a part-Russian Indian princess who was his playmate when they were young it is much more. Lots of palace intrigue, plots, assassinations, and running and chasing. Very descriptive of the country, it's customs of the time and it's people.

[old mark]

10. I'm reading one of the Kellerman novels - the Alex Delaware series.

Nothing spectacular, but not terrible.
(Not much of a recommendation, I guess...)

I'm also reading Willie Nelson's autobiography, which is much better, but I put it down for a few days because I don't want to finish it yet...

mark

[PassingFair]

11. Lost Illusions.

Every time I try to read it in front of my kids,
one of them says "Who's the author of that book, Mom?"

(It's by Honore de Balzac)

They got me the first time, and want to recreate
their glory moment.

[Dr Morbius]

12. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton.

So far, not a terribly impressive memoir.

[Heidi]

13. Just finished Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom." Very good read and not nearly as

depressing as "The Corrections" (which I liked a lot but, man, what a downer).

[Callalily]

14. Just finished

A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke. Funny, funny stuff.

[raptor_rider]

15. The EYE of the World, book 1

pretty good so far.