What book is everyone reading at the moment?

[ConspiRaider]

FAIR GAME: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House
by Valerie Plame Wilson.

I think this is the very first book I've read wherein blackout of words, phrases, sentences and sometimes whole consecutive pages is used. For example, pages 132-136, inclusive, are blacked out. Weird.

Fascinating book. If you are a right wing rabid supporter of the Bush Administration? Avoid this book - save your money. Be afraid. Be very afraid. For everyone else - all normal people - I highly recommend it.

 

[sackett]

Saving Fish From Drowning. Amy Tan doing her usual.

 

[SRW]

Einstein By Walter Isaacson

Forever odd by Dean Koontz

Old Fritz and the New Era By L. Muhlbach Translated from the German by
Peter Langley. (I decided to start going through my great Aunts Library, of all the books I inherited. Novels written between 1860 and 1906)

Thank for all to fish an audio book by Douglas Adams

 

[JoeEllison]

Harbingers, another Repairman Jack novel from F. Paul Wilson.

 

[headscratcher4]

Yong Stalin.

 

[boojum]

The Jamestown Adventure: Accounts of the Virginia Colony, 1605-1614 edited by Ed Southern. This is a interesting collection of orginal texts -- letters, diaries, reports, etc. -- from the colony.

 

[asmodean]

Dead City. Boy is that book a stinker. Too bad the review in the zombie thread did not show up until after I bought the damn thing. :S Still, got it cheap =)

 

[HawaiiBigSis]

Forever odd by Dean Koontz

Me too! What a coincidence: it must be fate, or some sort of divine intervention, or something!

Actually, I tried to start it last night, but since I'd just (I mean JUST) finished Hadassah by Tommy Tenney (a re-telling of the Book of Esther, featuring my favorite biblical heroine -- she won by using her brains, not her boobs) my brain didn't want to wrap around the rather confusing series of statements that begin the book.

I'm just hoping it doesn't devolve into his usual paranoid themes. I haven't read a DK book in years because I got tired of black helicopters and satellites beaming messages to receivers embedded in tooth fillings by evil dentists and other silliness.

 

[boojum]

A Leaky Tent is a Piece of Paradise: 20 Young Writers on Finding a Place in the Natural World edited by Bonnie Tsui

 

[JoeEllison]

I'm giving The Golden Compass a try, just because of all the fuss.

 

[Jeff Corey]

William Gibson's Spook Country. It reminds me of first reading Pynchon's V or Gravity's Rainbow.

 

[SRW]

Me too! What a coincidence: it must be fate, or some sort of divine intervention, or something!

it must be the psychic vibes I am putting out.

I'm just hoping it doesn't devolve into his usual paranoid themes. I haven't read a DK book in years because I got tired of black helicopters and satellites beaming messages to receivers embedded in tooth fillings by evil dentists and other silliness.

I have been on a DK binge, I am four weeks into recovery from back surgery and his books are really good if you want to kill time. It is rather fun to see how far off the planet he takes things.

 

[Spidey13]

Re-reading parts of Beer for Dummies until I can get to the bookstore.

 

[The Whether Man]

I've just finished 'Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!' and I am about to start Arthur C Clarke's 'Profiles of the Future', the updated 1981 edition.

 

[T'ai Chi]

The Grammar of Science, by Karl Pearson.

And by the way, I don't think it was very good read.

I'm sure at its time it was, and extremely influential to people like Einstein. But it now comes off as racist in parts, as well as overly-focused on sense-impressions.

 

[aofl]

Re-reading parts of Beer for Dummies until I can get to the bookstore.

Don't you mean, "...until I can get to the beerstore"?

I'm currently reading "The Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman. I should have read this years ago because I've been telling everyone for years that Argentina started WWI. Boy, was my history teacher wrong.

A

 

[Terry]

Pushing Ice by Alistair Reynolds.


also a bunch of programming books.

 

[Elizabeth I]

Reading The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading by Ian Rowland.

Listening to Eleven on Top by Janet Evanovich. I love books on tape! I never have my car radio on any more.

 

[hipparchia]

Terrorist, John Updike
and
The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James.

 

[Spidey13]

OK, I made it to the bookstore. I picked up Why Darwin Matters by Michael Shermer.