What Are You Reading Right Now?

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Comment by C. Annie Doucette on July 21, 2012 at 3:07pm

ok, Just started Gone with the Wind!! Never read it, Never saw the movie!! and for me that is rare!
I'm also reading Reunited by Hilary Weisman Graham (YA) and Souless by Heather Brewer (YA)!

Comment by wiffledust on July 21, 2012 at 11:30am

I am so sorry about the loss of your friend Julie, Robin. As I recall book was made into a movie with Meryl Streep and Renee Zelweiger (sp?). It was obviously a heavy subject, but good. Anna lost her mother, and it was a huge change in her life. She had to become the mother to her younger siblings, a role she hated and her siblings hated. I just saw her on a long interview on CSPAN. If you happen to see it in a rerun, I think you'd enjoy it. Thanks for sharing!

Comment by Robin Williamson McBrearty on July 21, 2012 at 10:26am

I am reading a lovel by Anna Quindlen, written in 1994, called One True Thing, about a woman who puts her life on hold to care for her mother who is dying of cancer.  At the outset, the daughter is in jail accused of killing her mother (euthenasia); I'm not far enough into the book to know what happened, but the minute description of her mother's physical deterioration and how she faces what is happening to her is compelling right now; I think of my mother caring for my father at home through his final terminal illness, and of my friend Julie who died last Sunday after a multi-year battle with breast cancer . . . I am drawn to this book even as it reaches into my gut . . .

Comment by wiffledust on July 15, 2012 at 10:05am

i just saw a book i want to read plugged on chris hardball's show. it's by michael duffy called "the president's club" (i think that's the title, but the author is definitely correct) about the special group that ONLY the presidents have formed. it's almost a secret support group. it has rules and regs, meetings and rivals. cool. i want to read this!

Comment by Dave Kelly on July 4, 2012 at 11:31am

The Enchantress, the last in the 'Immortal Nicholas Framel series by Michael Scott.

Comment by Maryanne Mesple on June 30, 2012 at 1:05am

I am reading Homeward Bound Angel by Thomas Wolfe ... it is quite the adventure in obscure vocabulary and a word fest serving up copious amounts of food for consumption ... along with the authors apparent aversion to the human form .... T.W. describes most of his characters in ways that leave one with the impression that most human form is grotesque!

Comment by C. Annie Doucette on June 29, 2012 at 5:22pm

One of my I'm reading A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1) by Deborah Harkness.
I'm also reading The Obsidian Blade (The Klaatu Diskos #1) by Pete Hautman a YA title

Comment by wiffledust on June 29, 2012 at 4:59pm

readers! what are your summertime ocean side books right now?

Comment by Dave Kelly on May 8, 2012 at 10:13pm

Cyclops One by  Jim  Deflice

This is one of his Andy Fisher series. Only on page 3 - will report more later.

 

Comment by John Wood on May 8, 2012 at 10:58am

I just finished "War is a Racket", written by Brigadier General Smedley Butler in 1937, after World War I.  It is amazing how much things haven't changed.  ONE - WAR IS A RACKET! CHAPTER TWO - WHO MAKES THE PROFITS? CHAPTER THREE - WHO PAYS THE BILLS? CHAPTER FOUR - HOW TO SMASH THIS RACKET! CHAPTER FIVE - TO HELL WITH WAR!  Pretty much lays it out there.  I think this should be required reading before one can call oneself a liberal.

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