What Are You Reading During This Fine February, 2007?

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As per usual. I am attempting Richard Halliburton's (no relation to Dick Cheney) Royal Road to Romance, which is a bit on the exclamatory side, but somethimes fun.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

I'm still reading Timothy Findley's Famous Last Words.

― August (August), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

Just finished The Odyssey and Richard Price's Samaritan. Working on: Simenon's The Man Who Watched Trains Go By and Robert Moses and the Modern City (from the MCNY show).

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

Suite Francaise.

― Navek Rednam (Navek Rednam), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

"A Changed Man" - Francine Prose
and all of the stuff on the other thread, plus some stuff I haven't listed on the other thread. Yet.
I did a lot of pleasure reading last month.
"The Dress Lodger" - Sheri Holman, was by far my favorite, for January. I can't believe I had it for three years and never read it!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Saturday, 3 February 2007 02:30 (eighteen years ago)

My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid.
Will probably be followed by The Walking Tour by Kathryn Davis.

― Julie S. (SJLefty), Saturday, 3 February 2007 03:59 (eighteen years ago)

I'm still on Radcliffe's The Italian and Jeff VanderMeer's Shriek: An Afterword. Yesterday I started the Spring 2006 issue of The Paris Review and A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature.

I finished The Wonderful World of Christopher Robin by A. A. Milne. "Now We Are Six" did improve near the end but my conclusion on "When We Were Very Young" being the better of the two still stands.

― Arethusa (Arethusa), Saturday, 3 February 2007 04:09 (eighteen years ago)

I'm going to finish The Children of Men by PD James this weekend (which is good since it is a week overdue at the library). I will continue reading Human Physiology: An Integrated Approach - Silverthorn; for a textbook it is pretty interesting. But chapter two inspired me to get Chemistry for Dummies by John T. Moore out of the library today, too. I want to go back to reading novels!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:17 (eighteen years ago)

i made my one-book-week january goal, february is supposed to be

a spell for chameleon piers anthony
martian time slip pkd
mason & dixon tommy p
coming into the country john mcphee

― indian rope trick (bean), Sunday, 4 February 2007 05:24 (eighteen years ago)

didion, 'political fictions'. what happened to the didion thread? was it on the sandbox?

― tom west (thomp), Sunday, 4 February 2007 05:35 (eighteen years ago)

You've read those Pxxrs Xnthxny books before, right?

M&D seems ambitious for one week.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 4 February 2007 05:46 (eighteen years ago)

'Equus' by Peter Shaffer, 'Unknown Man #89' by Elmore Leonard, and 'The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse', all of which are way cool.

― James Morrison (JRSM), Monday, 5 February 2007 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

actually, i've never read any of the piers anthony books. i bought them in 1989, and never cracked 'em. my 9-year old signature is still inside, and a receipt. but m&d is really just a finish-up job, I'm 1/2 through already. and i'll finish martian time-slip tomorrow or the next day, so i'll have the better part of three weeks to find out what happens to the mess'rs.

― indian rope trick (bean), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:33 (eighteen years ago)

i was reading heinlein's 'the menace from earth', which was fun.
now i am reading margaret atwood's 'cats eye' at long last. i'm about 3/4 through, and am deeply enjoying it. it might even be my favourite of hers.

i'm doing pretty well with my school reading and will probably keep a novel on the go all semester.

― derrick harder (derrick.h), Monday, 5 February 2007 07:32 (eighteen years ago)

House of Meetings by Martin Amis. So far it feels like his best novel since Money.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 5 February 2007 11:56 (eighteen years ago)

high standards those.

― tom west (thomp), Monday, 5 February 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

I'm readin some George Pelecanos as (possible) homework, this time "A Firing Offense", which is good in its Pelecanos way.

Ralph Rumney is rumbling on enjoyably in the background but the book's too big to fit in my pocket and I'm sick of carrying it into work.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

I just started Stanislaw Lem's Solaris.

― August (August), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

GR -- Last year I re-read Ulysees, and then started in on TP, first with Vineland, and then ATD. I was going to read a few light, frivolous things first, but GR just sat there on the bedstand, mocking me until I picked it up. Damn.

― Docpacey (docpacey), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

I'm readin some George Pelecanos as (possible) homework, this time "A Firing Offense", which is good in its Pelecanos way.

I just started Right as Rain as part of an ongoing effort to read as much Wire-related stuff as possible and so far I'm pretty disapointed. I wasn't really looking to read about, Elmore Leonard-style, WACKY urban characters mixin' it up.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:06 (eighteen years ago)

I've just finished World War Z by Max Brooks, which was completely amazing and terrifying and intelligent and one of the best sci-fi books I've read in years, possibly ever.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:22 (eighteen years ago)

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (which is just fun to say out loud) - 'Don Casmurro' - great Brazilian novel from 1900

― James Morrison (JRSM), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:56 (eighteen years ago)

Aside from my many university readings (which I haven't got around to adding to 'this semester's reading') I intend to read The Saragossa Manuscript by Jan Potocki.

― emil.y (emil.y), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

I read Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men on Saturday (loved it), and I've been reading random parts of that Patricia Highsmith bio before bed. Not sure what's next, maybe World War Z would be good (is it out in paper?).

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

It's out in trade. I can heartily recommend it.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Newton's Wake by Ken Macleod. I don't know if anyone on ILX cares about this guy but this book is really fun!

― 31g (31g), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 03:19 (eighteen years ago)

"The Terror" by Dan Simmons.
"Twilight of the Superheroes" by Deborah Eisenberg.
Both real good so far.

― Moti Bahat (motibuh), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:30 (eighteen years ago)

i am 25 pages from the end of cat's eye. i think i'll reread some don delillo next.

― derrick harder (derrick.h), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 09:38 (eighteen years ago)

I started reading Herta Müller's _The fox was then ahead of the hunter_ (in Norwegian translation) on the bus today. I believe I'll have to restart it once I get home from work, as I ended up wondering what the hell I'd just read. This is one of those books that I'm sure I'll either end up loving or despising. Expecting the latter, unfortunately.

― Øystein (Øystein), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

I just finished Against The Day! Now need something I can read really quickly in the week before my due date. Might reread Lot 49 for the first time in 12 years.

― Meg Busset (Mog), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

"Newton's Wake by Ken Macleod. I don't know if anyone on ILX cares about this guy but this book is really fun!"

-- 31g (31198...), February 7th, 2007."
It's been on my shelf for a while, lemme know how it is, I'm on a cruise in a couple weeks and will be looking for something light and fun.

― Docpacey (docpacey), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

"A Firing Offense" is the first Pelecanos I've read and then thought "oh dear that was a bit lame". I hope I'm not going off him.

I have started reading "An Affair of Honor" by Richard Marius, which was supposed to be some Tennessee homework but the Tennessee visit has had to be called off (postponed rather than called off I hope).

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

"Newton's Wake by Ken Macleod. I don't know if anyone on ILX cares about this guy but this book is really fun!"

I thought so too. My only real quibble was that the aliens were so human. And yes, I know he explains that away as part of the quantum trickery of the universe, but it still bugged me. It always seems a bit of a failure of imagination.

"The Terror" by Dan Simmons & "Twilight of the Superheroes" by Deborah Eisenberg

I've been eyeing both of these off with interest. I've only read Simmons' 'The Song of Kali', which I really liked, but 'The Terror' has sheer size against it. Is it worth the slog?

I'm now partway through R. K. Narayan's wonderful 'The Painter of Signs'. I've only got a couple more Malgudi novels to go and then I've read the lot. This is a sad thing.

― James Morrison (JRSM), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

Finished House of Meetings this AM. sorta petered out at the end after a strong start :-/

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

i am now rereading delillo's end zone!

― derrick harder (derrick.h), Friday, 9 February 2007 08:11 (eighteen years ago)

Just finished the graphic novel Y The Last Man: Kimono Dragons by Brian K. Vaughan.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 9 February 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

Still reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Fooled By Randomness and also The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 9 February 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

does anyone know anything about 'the tenderness of wolves' by stef penney? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/08/ncosta08.xml

― roger goodell (gear), Saturday, 10 February 2007 02:30 (eighteen years ago)

I told myself I'd take a week just to read and managed to get through So Long, See You Tomorrow - William Maxwell, Gilead - Marilynne Robinson, Citizen Vince - Jess Walter, and How Soccer Explains The World - Franklin Foer. It's been a fun week.

― jergins (jergins), Saturday, 10 February 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

I just finished "The Mystery Guest" by Gregoire Bouilliert and started The Ruby in Her Navel" by Barry Unsworth. So far I am enjoying my 2007 reading. I think last year some of my choices were weak.

― Johnny Jay (Polack), Saturday, 10 February 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

On a bit of a British Mystery kick-- this month so far...

PG Wodehouse- The Cat-Nappers
John Updike- Seek My Face
John Searles- Boy Still Missing
Jane Smiley- Horse Heaven, A Thousand Acres
Mary Renault- The Last of the Wine
Mary Shelley- Frankenstein
Peter Robinson- In a Dry Season, Aftermath, Cold is the Grave
Charles Todd- A Test of Wills
Ruth Rendell- Harm Done

― Joseph Kallinger, Friday, 23 February 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

Heat: How to stop the World Burning by George Monbiot and I'm about to start 'Mutant Message Down Under' which looks very interesting. My boyfriend already read it in German and recommended it to me.

― idle_matilda, Saturday, 24 February 2007 09:48 (eighteen years ago)

A book on Japanese historical people. Extremely difficult to read as it's a translation (which I can feel in every single word) and very loaded. At times I don't even know what the author is on about. :-( I feel quite stupid really.

I finished Real Life of Sebastian Knight and didn't really like it as much as I *wanted*.

― nathalie, Saturday, 24 February 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

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