There's just something so perfect in reading a book in the fall, under a blanket, with a coffee by my side. I hibernate in the cold weather and get more reading done than in the summer.

I'm currently reading "She's Come Undone" by Wally Lamb. I've read two of his other books... which were phenomenal.

What're you reading right now?

Heaven and Hell by Emanuel Swedenborg. Quite interesting and certainly one of his more comprehensible pieces. This book paired with a cup of tea makes for a wonderful morning.

Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay, by Ann Carson

European Literature and the Lain Middle Ages, E.R. Curtius

Henry Miller On Writing, ed. Thomas H. Moore

Paris Notebooks, by Mavis Gallant

The Pocket Oracle and the Art of Prudence, by Baltasar Gracián

Various poems by Cavafy, Keats, C. Rossetti, Hafez, Hardy, and others

(Thank you Pil-Latté for these threads over the years. Among my favourites.)

I love reading what everyone is reading!

Pil-Latté Wrote:
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> There's just something so perfect in reading a
> book in the fall, under a blanket, with a coffee
> by my side. I hibernate in the cold weather and
> get more reading done than in the summer.
>
> I'm currently reading "She's Come Undone" by Wally
> Lamb. I've read two of his other books... which
> were phenomenal.
>

I love Wally Lamb's books... Enjoy!!!!!!!!

Another Wally Lamb book that I loved is "I Know This Much is True".

and "The Hour I First Believed" was fantastic as well.

cinda Wrote:
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> Another Wally Lamb book that I loved is "I Know
> This Much is True".


I loved it too.. he's such an excellent writer.

Before the Fall. (Noah Hawley)

Rouge Lawyer (John Grisham)

All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)

Bird by Bird (Anne Lamont)

The Under Ground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)

I'm reading "Mexican Mafia", by Tony Rafael. It came with a workbook!

My car book is my first Walter Mosley book featuring Leonid McGill, "The Long Fall". So different in that it's set in modern times, in NYC! Weird!

Next on my dance card are Carl Hiaasen's "Razor Girl" and then I get a kindle delivery next Monday night of the newest John Sandford 'Virgil Flowers' novel. And word just hit the street that a new Prey book is coming, in which Lucas Davenport becomes a U.S. Marshall.

I'm also trying to slog through a roman-a-clef involving a top-tier law school graduate and what the author had to do get the much coveted Juris of Doctorate degree in the law. It's spicy at times, but mostly if fails to satisfy. But I did want to see how the other half live, the intelligentsia.

Just finished Jame Lee Burke's latest The Jealous Kind. I have been reading Burke for years and have read everything he has in print. If you haven't discovered Burke you are missing the most literate and beautiful writer in America today.

I've been reading Geraldine Brooks: A Year of Wonders, Caleb's Crossing and March. Really liked the first two, but didn't like March as much.

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins.

Reading three more or less simultaneously:

Timothy Ferris' "Coming of Age in the Milky Way," about the evolution of astronomy, cosmology, astrophysics and, um, stuff. Happy as hell I don't have to take an exam later.

Pema Chodron's "The Wisdom of No Escape." Nice clear Buddhist guidebook.

Isabel Allende's "La Ciudad de Las Bestias." Trying to improve my Spanish, which is WAY below the reading level of this. It's a toss-up whether I understand less of this or the Ferris book on astrophysics (which is in English...).

I'm starting "The origin of Satan" by Elaine Pagels. Here's a hint... it was the christians goddamnit.

Plus Mexican Mafia... as soon as the Dawg gets done with it, and various and sundry others. Plus "An Indigineous Peoples History of the United states".By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.



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The life-changing magic of tidying up....the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing.

White Clam by Gary Cowart
A Pacific Northwest adventure

Right now I'm reading , going back and forth , comparing topics/ viewpoints:
"Choosing a Jewish Life "and "Living a Jewish Life", both by Anita Diamant , which is a little too reformed for me, but is very good.
" What is a Jew" , by Rabbi N Kertzer, which is a question and answer book, which covers a little of everything, but not in depth
" I am Jewish", edited by Judea andRuth Pearl. They were Daniel Pearls parents. It's a compilation of hundreds of people on why they're Jewish, I really love that one. There's even a 5 page segment written by the recently late Shimon Peres.

Lastly is the generic Idiots guide to Judaism"

"The Devil all the Time" by Donald Ray Pollack

Just finished "To Your Scattered Bodies Go" by Philip Jose Farmer. Next is "The Fabulous Riverboat" by the same author.

Farmer is wonderful! I haven't read any of his stuff in a while, but it's one that I eventually come back to no matter what.

Going back to Farmer after many years, I'm impressed with the clarity of his prose. His ideas are fancy, not his words. I'm going to re-read all five of his Riverworld novels.

Going to start Sharon K. Penman's 'Time and Chance' and 'The Devil's Brood'

Secret Combinations: Evidence of early Mormon counterfeiting 1800 - 1847.

It arrives in a couple of days from Amazon.

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> Secret Combinations: Evidence of early Mormon
> counterfeiting 1800 - 1847.
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> It arrives in a couple of days from Amazon.


Please report, when appropriate. Thanks, lol - sounds maybe worth reading.

"The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914" by Chris Clark
"Mortality" by Christopher Hitchens -- his account of dying of cancer.

Spare Parts by Joshua Davis & The Little Prince

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin

Have you read her short story, "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas?" It's a wrenching study on human nature.