Currently about 320 pages into The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson, and also about a quarter of the way through my co-worker Rasheed Newson's first e-book, Bring a Shovel and a Gun.
I'm reading Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam by James M. McPherson. It's a concise history of the events leading up to, during and around the pivotal American Civil War battle. This includes the disasters of the Seven Days Battles, Second Bull Run/Manassas as well as the possibility of British and French intervention in the war. Whenever I get a spare moment I am also working my way through A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin.
Dan Balz's The Battle for America 2008, his best-selling tome on the last presidential election. I'd read it before but wanted to leaf through it again in advance of the upcoming election five weeks from now.
So I gave up on Kraken halfway through. No, less than halfway. I'm curious... has anyone else read it, and what did you think of it?
i'm reading a bible and highlighting all the bits that are morally reprehensible to quote at the next angry street preacher i come across. and also a book by film critic mark kermode whose cover has fallen off and therefore cant remember the title.
Vis-à-vis my latest purchases I now have to decide on which book to begin reading as they might have The Hydrogen Sonata at the store any day now and I'm expecting a prolonged geekgasm from that book
I just started The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner. I'm also still working on A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin.
Stephen Fry's memoirs. They're all the tweedy, nicotine-saturated, cocaine-fueled, manic-depressive, pleonastic, poofy glory one would expect; I've said it before, but if he weren't 20 years too old and 100% too homosexual for me I'd totally marry him.
That post settles it: I'll need to read that too ETA: Which one are you describing. Moab Is My Washpot or The Fry Chronicles?
^I'm on the latter at the mo', and it's a lot of fun. I just delight in his writing. He has the same playfulness with language that Wodehouse had, and it's a lot of fun.
I can't believe I haven't read anything of Fry's -That's a serious slip, I'm sure he writes as well for print as for speak Thanks