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What are you reading?
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 5:22 pm
by squeezindlemmon
I guess since there is a never-ending post about "What are you listening to?", that there should be one about books as well. Right now, I'm reading The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert. It's an awesome book about Eustace Conway, who left his comfortable suburban home at the age of 17 to move into the Appalachian Mountains, where for the last twenty years he has lived alone with no modern provisions and basically just living off the land.
I have a looooong list of other books I want to read.... Any other good ones I should add to it?
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 5:29 pm
by overhung
Sweet Thursday by Steinbeck.
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 5:33 pm
by busty
So many books, so little time. I read a couple of interesting books about women in WII recently:
The Women Who Lived for Danger: Behind Enemy Lines During WWII -- by Marcus Binney (this is a spy book)
And If I Perish : Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
by Evelyn Monohan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
Bill Bryson's travelogues are all really interesting too.
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 5:33 pm
by KD
retro counter-culture classic :A Confederate General from Big Sur - Richard Brautigan. Amazon is about the only place to get a copy. Good book.
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 5:34 pm
by meetVA
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Skinny Legs and All - Tim Robbins.
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 5:35 pm
by KD
loved "Catch 22"
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 5:42 pm
by overhung
meetVA wrote:Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Skinny Legs and All - Tim Robbins.
Catch 22 one of my all-time favorites. Have you read
Good as Gold by Heller? It's as good in my opinion. Hey, I'm leaving the biners on Friday... I swear this time.
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 5:55 pm
by JB
I'm gearing up for a trip to escalante and remote canyons of utah...
so: Desert Solitaire and Secret Knowledge of Water (i like the Childs book better than Abbey for some reason)
Gearing up to work out my own damn salvation...
so: Blue Like Jazz, Walking on Water (L'engle), anything by Buechner
Feeding my Wind Rivers obsession...
so: Sky's Witness, the Kelsey guidebook and the Bonney guide to Wyoming mountains.
Learning about sustainability and simplicity:
so: Wendell Berry
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 6:09 pm
by ReachHigh
I have such a stack of half read books its not funny.
currently
Survivor - Chuck Palhniuk
The Bible - I've answered Christian for years when asked about my beliefs but I have never read the whole book.
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 6:11 pm
by KD
am "teaching" a reading class right now full of 13 - 14 yr olds who want to do everything but read. Once they're quiet i can maybe read. this is a boring job sometimes - easy jus' boring.