What book are you currently reading?

[Miss Chicken]

Finished reading The Circus Fire yesterday morning and yesterday afternoon started reading Outrage by Arnaldur Indridason which I finished this morning. Outrage is a murder mystery set in Iceland. This is the 8th book I have read by Arnaldur.

I now plan to read The Quarry by Johan Theorin. It is a murder mystery set on the Swedish island of Oland and will the third book by Theorin I have read.

The Circus Fire 4/5
Outrage 4/5

 

[MLJames]

Just picked up the expanded 10th anniversary edition of Gaiman's American Gods. That's next on my list.

 

[trekkiebaggio]

Watchmen &Philosophy - a collection of philosophical essays about different aspects of Watchmen.

 

[Goliath]

Today I read Death in the Fifth Position--one of a series of trashy mystery novels written by Gore Vidal, of all people. Vintage Crime/Black lizard has reprinted all three of them.

 

[Sci]

Midway through Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Starting up on A People's History of the United States and switching back and forth between the two.

 

[JoeZhang]

Just finished Area 51: An uncensored history - which by and large is a very sober and interesting history of Area 51 and what has more than likely been going on there since it's formation. However for reasons that are known only to the author, they blow their credibility into bits with some very odd speculation about what happened in Roswell in the last two pages of the book.

Still overall an interesting read.

 

[CaptainCanada]

Midway through Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Starting up on A People's History of the United States and switching back and forth between the two.

I've read the former, but not the latter. The former is extremely good; it was a major influence on my undergraduate thesis. My only reservaton is that Goodwin is, I sense, perhaps a little too in love with her primary subject; she's very uninclined to attribute to Lincoln any errors that don't flow from his virtues.

I'm reading Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence. Good so far; of the 50ish authors I've read in the course of my Nobel project, he's easily in the top five.

 

[Goliath]

Now reading Edward Lee's City Infernal. A pretty original re-imagining of Hell.

I was actually going to call it "refreshing," but Lee really piles on the gross-out horror. Maybe a better word would be "revolting."

 

[Sci]

Midway through Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Starting up on A People's History of the United States and switching back and forth between the two.

I've read the former, but not the latter. The former is extremely good; it was a major influence on my undergraduate thesis. My only reservaton is that Goodwin is, I sense, perhaps a little too in love with her primary subject; she's very uninclined to attribute to Lincoln any errors that don't flow from his virtues.

I'm thoroughly enjoying Team of Rivals, but that sounds like a fair criticism so far.

Ironically, I was really making headway into Team of Rivals just as I discovered the Broadway musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. I was drowning in 19th Century Americana for a while there.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Why We Suck by Denis Leary

 

[Admiral_Young]

Starting to read OO7:Carte Blanch by Jeffery Deaver.

 

[Kavindonald007]

Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins ;')

 

[Bisz]

Done with A Clash Of Kings and onto A Storm Of Swords as of yesterday.

 

[TrekNut87]

Just finished City of Thieves by David Benioff. Very enjoyable read. I'm also working my way through The Hitchhiker's series by Douglas Adams. I'm about halfway through Restaurant at the End of the Universe and enjoying it so far. George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series is also on my shelf, though it may be a while before I get to those.

 

[Mammoth]

I’m reading The Kingdom Left For Dead: The Adventures of Thorader and Underife by Michael Butt, it’s very interesting and thrilling.

 

[Mistral]

Night of the Living Trekkies.

Zombies at a Trek convention. Pretty cool, actually.

 

[DrMaturin]

Re-read ASOIAF (1-4), re-read Glen Cook's Black Company (1-4), read Peter F. Hamilton's Void Series (1-3), Simon R. Green's Nightside (1-7), and Patrick Rothfuss's The Wise Man' Fear (Kingkiller 2).

The Green series is a sort of Dresden-lite urban fantasy.

Have OD'd on series-itis

 

[Forbin]

Finished Stephen Baxter's "Flood" not too long ago, now starting the sequel, "Ark."

 

[Skywalker]

A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin.

 

[mimic]

"Annals of a Former World" - John McPhee. Next up is "The Omnivore's Dilemma"