What are you reading?

[Sibling Chatty]

It gets worse, Opsa...there's some question as to the complete veracity of that memoir.

Reading an anthology of short humor from the New Yorker.

Loving the Thurber. Have ALWAYS loved Thurber.

[Opsa]

Gosh, I hope so, Chatty. I can't imagine he was actually given away to his mom's batty psychiatrist.

I too, have always loved Thurber. Now his was an eccentric family I could live with.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

He's amazing, Thurber is.


Making Money--Terry Pratchett

[Swatopluk]

Making Money--Terry Pratchett

Gender isssues with Golems

[anthrobabe]

the weather report from ACIC

[Sibling Chatty]

Bait And Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
By Barbara Ehrenreich

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

I am America (and so can you) by Stephen Colbert

[Swatopluk]

Just finished War of the World (Fergueson)
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (Surtees) should be in the mail

[Opsa]

Just started The Kite Runner.

[Swatopluk]

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (Surtees, 1853)
For the first time in a very long time I actually have difficulty to completely understand a piece of English literature. 19th century (British) English seems to be quite peculiar with quite a shift in the meaning of common words. And me being out of my cultural depths (no expert on horses, hunting, clothing, customs) doesn't help. Also Surtees has a very ironic style that leaves much unsaid requiring the reader to complete the picture/find the word he is hinting at.
Quite entertaining nonetheless.
Fortunately I have a very big dictionary that hasn't kicked out the older or obscure meanings of words (e.g. that a bullfinch is not exclusively a bird but also an obstacle for horses).

[Sibling Chatty]

Some Orson Scott Card short stories/novellas entitled something about the 'beginnings of the Enderverse'...I'm trying to gather all the "Ender" books together, but it seems to have grown to a 6 or 7 part 'trilogy' so far...

[Swatopluk]

Although not finished by far with the Sponge, I took another reading of David Attenborough's memoirs Life on Air (which I strongly recommend).

[anthrobabe]

Ian Shaw- textbook- "oxford history of egypt" or close enough for horseshoes(the name)
we get to have him on campus in the spring for a lecture-- ssooooo excited. Plus my book is a hard-back so I get an autograph as well. (for some reason the campus bookstore had one hardback copy amongst all the paperbacks and I grabbed it)

[Griffin NoName]

Fortunately I have a very big dictionary that hasn't kicked out the older or obscure meanings of words (e.g. that a bullfinch is not exclusively a bird but also an obstacle for horses).

Oh dear. I fear we will be benefiting from your expanding vocabulary. 

Val McDermid Beneath the Bleeding

I went through a phase of only reading books with "Red" in the title. I'm branching out into blood, although I kjow that can be blue. (factlet: apparently when they took blood samples at the summit on Xtreme Everest, it actually was blue).

[Swatopluk]

Oh dear. I fear we will be benefiting from your expanding vocabulary. 

That's an old vice of mine. Learn a new old and obscure word, find a way to use it whatever the cost.
At least they are usually safe for the kiddies .