What are you reading tonight DU? Me and Ian Rankin novel called Witch Hunt. Really

[applegrove]

creepy.

[trof]

1. Blind Man's Alley

Good read.

[many a good man]

2. The only thing I've read tonight was the back of this:

[applegrove]

3. Wow. Do you eat them out of the can or do you put them on green beans like the can implies?

[many a good man]

6. Absolutely positively did the green bean casserole thing

And its not even Christmas!

[applegrove]

8. Fancy Fancy!!

[JTG of the PRB]

4. I'm about halfway through "The Two Towers."

Almost done with the journey through Rohan, nearly to the part where Sam and Frodo meet Gollum for the first time. :)

[csziggy]

5. Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant

A series of essays about eating alone, often about cooking for one or what people eat when there isn't any one watching. It's interesting and sometimes amusing. The cover is nicely done, too.

[Kali]

7. I read George Carlin's last book the other day

it was a birthday present - got it late because the vehicle situation prevented getting the mail for a week:eyes:

otherwise I skim big boring reference books to fall asleep - currently re-reading an older merck manual (human)

[velvet]

9. hi applegrove

Do I remember right, you posted a while back that you were reading Kavalier and Klay? If that was you, did you enjoy it?

I'm currently reading Solzhenitsyn's "August 1914", not one of his most compelling books but good enough to keep plowing on. I was given it for nothing in an op-shop (thrift shop) ... "Oh, we were thinking of throwing that one out, it's been here for ages". So it would be unkind not to read it. It concerns the Russian army's entry into World War 1, mostly how disorganized the high command was. I'm not well-read in military history and can't follow all the terminology and names of all the generals, but the descriptions of the action, and inaction, are interesting and of course, ya learn stuff. Like how one general decided it wasn't necessary to encrypt his new-fangled radio communications, because "surely the Germans wouldn't be listening in the middle of the night."

[applegrove]

14. I liked the first part of K & C better than the the story behind it. I just wasn't that into the

characters I guess. But the cartoon business was interesting.

[velvet]

23. Yes

The friend who loaned it to me felt the same as you about the story and characters. I was into it all the way, but agree the most interesting aspect of the book was the insight into the comics business.

[MissHoneychurch]

10. I love Ian Rankin's "Rebus" mysteries

too bad he quit writing them. Not sure I will get into the new series by him.

I am reading a book about pre-Columbus America and the question how and by whom America first got "conquered"

[MilesColtrane]

11. "Talk Talk" - T.C. Boyle

[tigereye]

18. some day I will get all the way through one of his- I just seem to lose motiva-

tion when I start em, for some odd reason.

[MilesColtrane]

19. I've read a handful of his other novels and usually have no problem remaining engaged.

This one isn't doing it for me though. Heck, I didn't even feel like reading it much during my 30+ hour flight back from vacation.

I'll probably finish it.

Boyle remains an excellent short story writer. That's his real strength in my opinion.

[SteppingRazor]

12. I just finished True Grit by Charles Portis last night.

Had to read it before I catch the new movie.

Pretty good book. Portis does a great job instilling the entire novel with the narrator's voice, so that even quotes by other characters are not quite what you imagine those characters would say, but are instead colored by the recollections of the narrator, telling the story some 30 years afterward.

[Arkansas Granny]

13. Last night I started reading "The Wee Free Men" by Terry Pratchett.

I wanted something light and funny and that just fit the bill.

[ceile]

15. Haven't read that one.

I've only read one or two of his non-Rebus books.
Right now I'm trying to get into the George Gently series by Alan Hunter. I've been getting the BBC versions through Netflix, starring Martin Thaw (love him). I'm half way through "Gently, With the Innocents" and it is nothing like what I watched. TV version dealt with child abuse and the book deals with missing coins. Talk about creative license on the part of the producers!

[bikebloke]

16. Handling the Undead by John Ajvinde Lindquist

Same author that wrote Let the Right One In. This time it's zombies in Stockholm. But so far they aren't eating anyone.

I read Witch Hunt when it came out years ago. I like Rankin. A pity about Rebus.

[tigereye]

17. Louise Penny novel- she is excellent.

[Chemical Bill]

20. Just Kids

What a great book.

Bill

[WolverineDG]

21. Alternating between Mark Twain's autobiography & "Free Air" by Sinclair Lewis

had to get Free Air via library loan, so I guess I'll have to focus on that. No biggie, both are, so far, good reads.

dg

[applegrove]

22. I just started reading "The Sound & The Fury" by Faulkner. I don't know if I'll

make it through.

[old mark]

24. Re-reading a James Lee Burke novel...Faulkner twists my head too much, and

IMO, he puts way too much ego into his work.
But lots of people seem to like it...

mark

[raptor_rider]

25. The Wheel of Time, The Shadow Rising book 4 by

Robert Jordan. Good series. Just got into it.