What swanky things are you reading?

[FEJ]

Just finished The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Prime by Neal Stephenson

I am almost done with The Wind Up Bird Chroniclesby Murakami as well as A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman

[wendybeth]

I'm re-reading the short stories of Guy de Maupessant. I love his writing.

[Lost Boy]

I read only fun books, non of this "heavy" reading stuff. I have enough problems in real life. That's why I go to Disneyland anyway, to get away from the real world.

So, I have read both the American and English versions of all six HP books and love them to death.

About a year or more ago a book was released titled "Peter and the Starcatchers". This is an excellent book on the origin of Peter Pan which is totally different from what we have believed, and just a whole lot of fun to read. This coming July they (Disney Books) are releasing the sequel, but the same authors titled, "Peter and the Shadow Thieves". It can be pre-ordered from Amazon dot com now. The story synopsis looks like a lot of fun. Disney wants to make the first book into a movie. I hope they do.

[Perle]

Originally Posted by FEJ

Just finished The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Prime by Neal Stephenson

I am almost done with The Wind Up Bird Chroniclesby Murakami as well as A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman

Diamond Age is a good one. I should re-read it. I get all his novels mixed up in my head

[Matterhorn Fan]

I just (finally) finished The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and I'm halfway through A Wild Sheep Chase.

[Not Afraid]

I just finished Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - a collection of short stories by Murakami. I started reading another collection of short stories put together by David Sedaris last night.

[Gemini Cricket]

NA & SMcS,
Amy Sedaris' book "I Like You" is good, too. If you get a chance listen to the Audio book... it's hysterical.

[Stan4dSteph]

I finished The Thief Taker by Janet Gleeson. Very interesting look into the lives of servants in Georgian London, with a nice mystery woven in.

I have started on Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I made my first book purchase for myself in a long time. Douglas Hofstadter's I am a Strange Loop. I swear, the collection of symbols that, in aggregate, form the larger, highly complex, self-referential symbol referred to as "I" loves every word that man writes.

Meanwhile, he mentions Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology by Valentino Braitenberg. If I can find it without paying for it I think that's next on my list.

[€uroMeinke]

I'm reading an IEEE publication on Engineering Design Changes to Nuclear Generating Facilities.