What are you reading?

[Swatopluk]

Pierre Bayard - How to talk about places you haven't been to

[Darlica]

I'm reading "How to be a woman" by Caitlin Moran.
I picked it up at the airport when we went to Prague but never found any time to read during the journey.

The book is something between an autobiography and a feminist manifest. It's partly hilarious, partly very thought invoking and partly very silly. 

I recommend it. Especially to women who think feminists are anti men, anti fun and anti sex and therefore call them self anti feminists...

[Swatopluk]

Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

The guy would feel right at home these days and a lot of the definitions still hold up well.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker.

[Griffin NoName]

Unhinged - The Trouble with Psychiatry - Daniel J. Carlat

[Swatopluk]

A (scientific) book on viking clothing. I have a few problems with the terminology because I am a bit short on vocabulary there and dictionaries are of limited help (since I often do not fully know the German terms either).
A thick book on invasive biology (like rabbits in Australia, kudsu in the US etc.)

[Opsa]

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. Liking it lots.

[En_Route]

Gillian Flynn- Gone Girl,  The  plotting is hitchcock on steroids  and thrillers  are not a gente of which I am enamouredd but the quality of characterisation and her prose are both exceptional and she does carry off her twists and turns with some elan

[Opsa]

Having finished The Poisonwood Bible and adored it, I was floundering around for another book, and found The Inheritance of Loss hiding on my nightstand, a novel which I had put down at page 41 thinking that I wasn't that into it. I picked up at 42 (the answer to life...) and am enjoying it a lot!

Sometimes I can't get into a writer's voice until page 50 or so.

[Swatopluk]

William Shakespeare's Star Wars

http://quirkbooks.com/sites/default/files/book_covers/StarWars_final_72.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__E20tUsM3s#t=15

[Opsa]

Just started Nature Girl by Carl Hiaason today. Very odd and funny.

[Swatopluk]

The Three Musketeers - 20 Years Later

[Opsa]

Two books I got for 25 cents each at the local library.

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Just started it, and getting used to the 1st person voice. Interesting cultural perspective.

and

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
(Someone who was with me recommended it.) The author's writing style is not so hot, and the grammar is annoyingly off, but some of the things he suggests do make some sense.

[Swatopluk]

Just finished Kim Newman's Professor Moriarty - The Hound of the D'Urbervilles
Colonel Moran tells it as it is unlike that sentimental fool Dr.Watson.

[Aggie]

Moby Dick, currently.  I'd not read it before.