What Are You Reading Right Now...Part Uno
 

In the vein of what are you listening to...I'll start

The Whole World Was Watching: Living In The Light Of Matthew Shepard - Romaine Patterson

Little Women.

Finally found the time to start it. Going to do World According to Garp after this. :)

Queen - The Life & Music of Dinah Washington

The Moor's Last Sigh-Salman Rushdie
Gulliver's Travels-Jonathan Swift (for school)

The Truth (with jokes) by Al Franken

Nice! How is it? I am still plodding through The Witching Hour by Ann Rice in my homage to NOLA. Ironically the creepiest, darkest part of the book was the part I got to on Halloween! When I'm done (I'm on page 650 of about 1000) I'm going to read the Tori Amos bio. Then Al's book, most likely! That or Mary Leader's Triad since I just got a used copy of that through Amazon.

Musarion by Christoph Martin Wieland. Don't feel bad if you've never heard of it.

Clarkson's autobiography (will prolly only mean something to UK ledgies..he's the guy who hosts Top Gear) Its on my boyfriends bathroom floor, so I'm reading a chapter at a time...you know what I mean! So buried in law books, I dont have time for "real" reading!!!

~Nicki

Just finished The Scarlet Letter.....Which I did not like.

You didn't? :eek: That's one of my favorite books. Though I hated it initially when forced to read it in school because of "The Custom House."

It's really funny, I like it. I'm only about 50 pages into it, though.

In the last two days I read The Committment by Dan Savage. It was amusing, but not as funny as his others. It also made me think a lot about my opinions on gay marriage. Thought provoking.

I'm on my third reading of "Dress Yourself in Corduroy and Denim" by David Sedaris. Except I'm skipping the chapter named "Hejira" this time - it hits a little close to home and makes me cry.

I'm also on the hunt for Margaret Cho's new one. And since Suze's post, and the fact that I just read that Anne Rice is now gonna write "only for God" and ditch her spooky themes, I might have to revisit the witch series. "The Witching Hour" was good, but "Lasher" ... (shudder, goose pimples).

An email from my manager explaining why my f*cking paycheck was 8 hours short! :mad:

I bought it and it's really great. You'll be surprised at how ferocious it actually is.

I really like it too. :shrug:

Did you hear she is in development of a new sitcom based on her mother? :lol: She said something about it on TheView, but I was too busy laughing from the previous joke, and I missed a lot of the explanation.

They are perfect to read this time of year. I did not know about Anne and God. I am surprised she would limit herself in any way. I guess I haven't kept up with her!

So you liked Lasher? I have never read it but I might now. I hated the end of The Witching Hour and I just couldn't get into Lasher.

That would be hysterical, her jokes about her mom always crack me up!

I just finished (like, just now) Swerve: Reckless Observations of a Postmodern Girl by Aisha Tyler. She is hilarious. And in a way that fits me well. I would recommend it. She's really smart, and really goofy.

Here's the new Anne Rice article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9785289/site/newsweek/

Stories about witches and ghosts get me every time, and Lasher is much more "supernatural" than TWH, so that's why I liked it better. Offhand I don't remember the end of the first book, tho. But, I do remember it taking a bit for Lasher to get going, but when it did...

I am just starting Beth Lisick's "Everybody Into the Pool"
I read "How Do Dinasaurs Say goodnight" every night arond 8:00 out loud.;)



I just requested this at the library.

You know, MDC, I didn't like that one very much. I didn't find it very funny.
I was worried Sedaris had played himself out when I read it. Maybe it's just his Street Angel.

Perhaps I should revisit it.

Oh, good! I really enjoyed it. I saw her recently on a late night show, and noticed she was really funny. I didn't know her before that at all. Except I had seen her on Friends, of course. She was promoting the book, so I got it.
The End.

That's why I like (or should I say "appreciate") it so much. He's always made me laugh, but until this book has never made me out-and-out sob hysterically onto the pages.

And I think "Us & Them" (the first chapter, about the family with no TV) is one of the best & funniest things he's ever written. The image of him gorging himself on chocolate so the no-TV freak kids (who trick-or-treat a day late) can't have any carried me through the rest of the book. :laugh:

Fall of the Year by Howard Frank Mosher :)

This was not my favorite David Sedaris book, but I have had to assess the reasons I liked him to begin with. I really just considered him to be a skilled humorist before, but not a serious writer, and maybe this is a transitional book.
Here is a link to the story I liked the best in "Dress Your Family..."
http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/030818fa_fact
I am trying to remember the Hejira chapter (with "Amelia, it was just a false alarm" running through my head,) oh right, that chapter is heartbreaking!

Hillary Clinton Living History.

It's pretty interesting, I guess. I'm still reading it.... :D

ooh - my fave book by Anne.

Triad is a good book too. I read it about 3 years ago. It's not, to me, a very well-written book, but a good, easy read.

I really, really want to read the Tori Amos book too.

I am sure I blocked it out. The thought of that song makes me almost inconsolably sad. I have to be in the right frame of mind to even think about it, let alone listen to it. Thus is the power of Joni.

Ok ill put it on that table...I thought it was a piece of garbage.

awwww..

Neal that sucks! :shocked:

I'm reading "Living History" by Hillary Clinton... just in case she runs... I want to know more about her.

:lol:

I don't think that's the right book then babe....

I'm afraid to ask... what do you suggest?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...books&n=507846

This was written by the (mmm..flamboyant) Dick Morris. He is by no means a conservative but he felt that if Hillary was heading to the white house in the next election we should have a more HONEST look at her life than simply what was written in her book!

Hmmmm - honest - well maybe to the uninformed:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200405040006

You just gave me a link to mediamatters superman! WTF?! :laugh:

On edit: I do have to say that I actually did read and enjoy Hillary's book! I just found Morris' book to be more informative.

It's true, if I just think of the beginning with that quiet, lonely guitar, I get sad chills. I only recently looked up the word to find out what it meant.
[Ar.,=Hijra=breaking off of relations]
I think I am going to go take out the album, make myself a toddy, and wallow in Wintery sadness. Turning the record over will keep me from going down too deep.

Well, look at it and you will see it cites to many other publications, some of which are conservative. But, you never did have much positive regard for the truth - so why start now.