What Are You Reading

[Miss Golightly]

I just finished The Outsider by Albert Camus (very good) and have started The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer.

 

[LordBest]

The Mating Season by P.G. Wodehouse.
When I'm done with that I will be starting on The Physiology of Taste by Brillat-Savarin.

 

[Feraud]

Currently Reading Hot Toddy, about the murder of actress Thelma Todd. The book is just o.k. The author takes too many liberties with assumptions on what people feel and think.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I read that book a few years back and had the same reaction. The definitive study of the Todd case has yet to be written.

As for me, I've just finished "Something Of My Own: Gertrude Berg and American Broadcasting, 1929-1956", by Glenn D. Smith Jr. a biography of the creator of "The Goldbergs," who in her day was the most successful woman in radio. Very much a woman who reinvented her entire persona to fit the character she played on the air -- a fascinating story. Could be a good bit more thorough in its study of the content of the program itself, given that it appears to be a doctoral dissertation revised into book form, but a fine effort just the same.

 

[Feraud]

The definitive study of the Todd case has yet to be written.

This is exactly what I thought to myself as I am reading this.

 

[sixsexsix]

New York Burning: liberty. slavery and conspiracy in 18th century Manhattan by Jill Lepore

 

[Pyroxene]

Currently...

• Jesus CEO [link]
• Guerrilla Marketing, 4th edition: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your SmallBusiness [link]

 

[Mike1939]

The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories (1945) By Dashiell Hammett

 

[Harp]

Marguerite Duras, Wartime Writings 1943-49.

spellbound.

 

[Missy Krissy]

I'm a sucker for the classics.

A Streetcar Named Desire
1984
Rebecca
Dracula

 

[MsStabby]

The Talented Mr. Ripley.

 

[Missy Hellfire]

Monty: His Part in My Victory by Spike Milligan.

 

[John Boyer]

John Clare: A Biography by Jonathan Bate. A rather obscure and under appreciated English working class poet.

Ethics by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

 

[TheLimey]

Working on my list of books that every man should read:

H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon's Mines.

Yes, to my great shame in my 28 years on this earth I have, untill now, never read an Allan Quatermain story...

 

[bobalooba]

[QUOTE="*****" McD]and decided (with some trepidation) to read it again. Sometimes books which have been tremendously influential at a given age or time don't have the same punch when revisited under different circumstances. I'm happy to report that WRINKLE not only lived up to my memories....it surpassed them

"*****"[/QUOTE]

I wish I could say the same for my wrinkle in time re-read. Wrinkle in time itself was still wonderful ( I originally read it in fourth grade) but its sequels did not hold up as well IMO.

 

[Lamplight]

I'm currently alternating back and forth between:

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins

 

["Skeet" McD]

I wish I could say the same for my wrinkle in time re-read. Wrinkle in time itself was still wonderful ( I originally read it in fourth grade) but its sequels did not hold up as well IMO.

Couldn't agree more: although I never read the sequels in my youth; I bought a boxed set for my wife, who didn't know any of them....and came to exactly your conclusion.

A sequel to a more-or-less perfect ANYTHING is very, very hard to pull off....so we'll just have to be grateful for the original.

"*****"

 

[PADDY]

GARBO on GARBO

As the title says

 

[Dan D]

Sharp Suits

'Sharp Suits' by Eric Musgrave; not only a history of the suit but a fantastic collection of photographs - a veritable treasure-trove. Much recommended!

 

[jwalls]

Last night I started rereading 'As I Lay Dying' by William Faulkner.