What Are You Reading Today?

[2a5t2f7]

Christianity after Religion by Diana Butler Bass, and Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh........

[mookien]

"Evelina", Frances Burney's first novel - shorter than "Cecilia" or "Camilla", but every bit as fun to read.

[mookien]

Just started with the Lord of the Rings english edition (please take in mind that my native lenguage is spanish, ok) so I think I will reading it for a while

Don't feel too bad. It took me a while to read and my native language is English.

[sydnie7]

Just ordered two from Alibris by Eliot Pattison, first is Bone Rattler described thusly on Amazon:
"Aboard a British convict ship bound for the New World, protagonist Duncan McCallum witnesses a series of murders and apparent suicides among his fellow Scottish prisoners. A strange trail of clues leads Duncan into the New World and eventually thrusts him into the bloody maw of the French and Indian War. Duncan is indentured to the British Lord Ramsey, whose estate in the uncharted New York woodlands is a Heart of Darkness where multiple warring factions are engaged in physical, psychological, and spiritual battle.
Exploring a frontier world shrouded in danger and defying death in a wilderness populated by European settlers, Indian shamans, and mysterious scalping parties, Duncan, the exiled chief of his near-extinct Scottish clan, finds that sometimes justice cannot be reached unless the cultures and spirits of those involved are appeased."

Also ordered the follow-up, Eye of the Raven.

Not sure how it will be received by my mother, who will get first crack at it, but we'll see!

[OC Richard]

Just finished a wonderful biography of Brigadier General James Maitland Stewart, Jimmy Stewart: A Biography by Marc Eliot.

Of course we all know and love It's a Wonderful Life and Harvey and some of us love Rear Window and Rope, but I didn't know about his career "on the boards" of Broadway and London. It's a fascinating read.

Now it's back to Philip K Dick short stories... I've been working my way through 30 or 40 of them.

Before getting on the Philip K Dick kick I was on a big Sir Arthur Conan Doyle kick, rereading The White Company for the third time (see the signature quote below) and finishing once again the entire Sherlock Holmes canon.

[Deirachel]

I am ashamed to say (as a SciFi fan) I'm just now diving into The Dune Chronicles by Frank Herbert. I've read most of his short stories and the Jorj X McKie stories are a favorite of mine (along with the Stainless Steel Rat of Harrison), I've never read this series. My wife finally bullied me into it.

[OC Richard]

Now I'm deep into Tunes of Glory!!

I can see already how amazingly faithful the movie was to the book.

[fcgeil]

Scotland: Story of a Nation by Magnus Magnusson.

[Duke of Delrio]

Just finished rereading, for the umpteenth time, Ivan Doig's fine memoir, This House Of Sky.

[maeah613l]

Pompeii, by Robert Harris. First time reading it- just wandered upon it in the library. I'm obsessed with the Latin language and anything Romanesque. It's great so far.