As you read here, each Wednesday in June I’m asking a book-related question. Answer in the comments and you’ll be entered into the drawing for a booky prize at the start of July! Each comment on a Wednesday Book Question Post will count as a entry, so be sure to comment at least four times this month!
Today’s Question:
What are you reading?
Tell me as much or as little (but at least the title) about the book as you like.
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Yes, today’s question is a simple one. I don’t know about your part of the world, but here we’ve been hit with a heat wave. It’s been about a billion degrees every day. Just hot and then more hot. So, my brain is melting and today’s question is that basic one we often ask friends: What are you reading?
There’s what I’m reading. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert.I heard about this book when it first came out last year and added it to my to-read list. Books can dwell on that list for a long, very long, time, but in between then and now Pine read this book and told me I had to read it. And now I am and it’s great. I am really enjoying it. A lot.
It’s funny, sincere, wise, and down-to-earth. I’ve just started the third section of the book - Indonesia. This is a book I know I’ll be sad to finish.
Now, your turn!
Felicia said,
June 20, 2007 @ 8:35 am
I’m STILL struggling to finish Stephen King’s The Stand. I started reading it at the end of May when I came down with an illness that felt like the plague much as it was described in King’s book
The library copy I picked up turned out to be the updated and expanded edition with 400 pages added back. The monster is 1138 pages long and I think I’m on page 1078. I know, I know, so little to go. But I got the movie so my other half could see it so now I feel like I’m done with the story and should be reading something else.
This is the first fiction book of King’s I’ve read. I recently finished his On Writing with was a surprising delight that I highly recommend. The Stand has a very interesting story and is an excellent book for character development.
callmeabookworm said,
June 20, 2007 @ 9:13 am
I just finished reading Monica Pradhan’s The Hindi-Bindi Club. A novel about moms and daughters and clashes of the continental, generational and personal variety. Food is big part of this novel and the author has included recipes for each chapter. It’s fun, it’s tear-jerking and above all, inspiring.
DaveP said,
June 20, 2007 @ 10:44 am
Like Felicia, I’m also reading Stephen King’s The Stand. I have the same extended edition and it is a massive book. I’m finding it easy to get through though as the character’s back stories and detail is so deep and involving. I’m on page 570, and it’s already starting to build up to the end battle. I highly recommend it
Elisa said,
June 21, 2007 @ 3:00 am
The Eyre Affair…and I have to finish it by Thursday night so I write up my Cover to Cover post.
Jules said,
June 21, 2007 @ 8:20 am
I FLIPPIN’ LOVE THIS BOOK! (Reviewed it here this time last year when our blog was new: http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=22). I tried and tried to get an interview with Gilbert but was turned down. Wah.
psycicflower said,
June 21, 2007 @ 5:11 pm
I’ve just started to read ‘Is there an Afterlife?’ by David Fontana. It’s about proof for life after death including theories and cases. It was recommended to me last summer on a forum for a paranormal show but by the time I bought it I had started college and had enough reading to keep me going and when I wasn’t doing college reading I wanted lighter stuff. I finally decided to start it the other day after going through a range of book types, graphic novel to turn of the century short stories, after finishing college. I’m only 41 pages in but it’s really interesting.
Samir said,
June 23, 2007 @ 6:36 am
I’m reading One half of Robertson Davies.
Not quite the kind of book I read all the time, but then there isn’t really one type of book I read all the time. I picked up an old fading copy off the street when I was last in Mumbai, and it’s been awaiting my attention since. I had never really heard of Robertson Davies before this or read any of his work, but I can’t resist the opportunity to read any writer who is writing about writing. I love to delve into the different schools of thought on the process of writing and how different authors view their own working process.
I’m less than half way through the book and the first few sections are comprised of speeches and lectures that Davies gave at various occasions. They make very interesting reading not only because Davies had a very sharp wit, but also because he was quite unconventional in what he chose to say. It’s quite a nice change to read something that was designed to be talked out loud. The language has a certain flow and immediacy that literary writing often lacks and it’s a nice new perspective on the written word.
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