What book are you reading and enjoying now?

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   Mom of KSKWposted 14 years ago

   I always have a copy of America's Best Short Stories published by year & edited by different authors standing by for fill-in.  But I just finished have a little faith by Mitch Albom.  Inspirational & extremely well written.  I'm probably one of the five people who never read tuesdays with morrie (by the same author) so maybe that will be next on the list.

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      Crazdwriterposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I have a copy of America's Best Short Stories. Had to buy it for a class in college and kept it. great and fun book that is why I didn't sell it back

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   Jenny30posted 14 years ago

   I am reading a book called Someone Special by Sheila O'Flanagan. She is based in the UK. I love British arthors!!

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   Madame Xposted 14 years ago

   A fascinating book - "Call It Treason" by George Howe.
   
   It's a novel, but it explores the idea of a committing treason because you believe what your government is doing is wrong. The book is about a young German soldier in WWII who approaches the US military in order to aid them because he believes in his heart that Hitler and the nazis are wrong. I can't put it down.
   
   I'm going to write a hub review about it.

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   dr.peppergirl09posted 14 years ago

   i am reading a passion denied by julie lessman... it is a great one i am really enjoying it! you should check it out sometime!

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   Crazdwriterposted 14 years ago

   Sounds like people are enjoying books. Glad to hear it!

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   wesleycoxposted 14 years ago

   I just finished Duma Key by Stephen King, now I am reading The Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan and Barbara Pease

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      Crazdwriterposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      How was Stephen King? I love his work but can't stand reading his books. how weird is that? lmao

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         wesleycoxposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         The story is classic King, weird stuff happens that is supernatural at best but the story trots right along.

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            Crazdwriterposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            hmmmm maybe I'll check it out next time I go to the bookstore and see if I can get into it.

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   Fugitive From Nowposted 14 years ago

   The complete works of khalil Gibran.  This writer is profound!

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      Crazdwriterposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I'll have to check it out.
      
      So many good books...so little time to read them all

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   Jackson Riddleposted 14 years ago

   Just finished Great Expectations, again. Never gets old. I love the book but I'm not sure if it is the novelty of reading 'Dickens' which makes it seem so much better, however that said I enjoyed it thoroughly (again).

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   travelespressoposted 14 years ago

   I'm just over half way through a doorstep of a book (1000 pages) - Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.  Hubpages keeps distracting me so its taking time to get through!!!  Very good though.

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    Fresh_Flowerposted 14 years ago

    I'm reading Critical Thinking by William Hughes.
    
    A book that I bought for a philosophy class some years ago. Never read it then but now I've discovered that it is quite good.
    
    I'm also reading Journey to the End of the Night by Celine

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    shanekrugerposted 14 years ago

    I am very busy in office work and no time for book reading

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    AngusKyprianouposted 14 years ago

    "The Girl Who Kicked The hornets nest" by Stieg Larsson.
    
    Amazing book.
    Needs to be read in great, hungry chunks!!
    
    I just wrote a hub about it.

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    Paradise7posted 14 years ago

    Zen and the Art of Writing, by Ray Bradbury.  I'm STILL working on that Noetics book, The Intention Experiment, and have been for a while now, and I'm reading "The Great Alone" by Janet Dailey, which is a historical saga about the people who settled in Alaska, before Seward's folly and before the Klondike gold strike.  They were mostly Russians.

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    onlyatjamartposted 14 years ago

    I am currently reading Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk. This is my 7th Palahniuk novel and I only started reading his work about 3 months ago.

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       theageofcakeposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       A friend of mine was really blown away by that book;  I've been meaning to read it.
       
       Lately its been exclusively Arthur C. Clarke and Cormac McCarthy for me, but I've finally broken out of that with Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game.  I was reading up on the author, and though he's a fantastic storyteller, I must say I find his personal politics perplexing - especially as someone working in the genre of science fiction.

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          onlyatjamartposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          Just finished it, and yeah I was blown away as well. It's definitely a book I would read again.

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    fishtiger58posted 14 years ago

    The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown and The Simple Soybean and your Health by Mark Messina PhD, Virginia Messina, RD with Den Setchell,PhD

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    torimariposted 14 years ago

    Dicken's Curiousity Shop...though I'm not sure I'm quite 'enjoying' it yet. :s

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    Crazdwriterposted 14 years ago

    Books books and more books. Phew so many
    
    Now I am reading Muder, She Wrote Trick Or Treachery.

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    janelle fowlerposted 14 years ago

    the kindgom of god is within you by leo tolstoy
    
    it's a bit of a hard read seeing as it's translated from russian hundreds of year ago, but it's great.

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    E. Nicolsonposted 14 years ago

    I have just started "Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life" by Ralph Pite. Have always been a Hardy fan, and Pite brings many interesting facts and theories forward.

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    Ron Montgomeryposted 14 years ago

    

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    Crazdwriterposted 14 years ago

    Ron I can't believe you put that up in here oh wait yea I can it's you lol

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       Ron Montgomeryposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       mmmmmmmmmm..
       
       Marge Simpson
       
       Grrrrrrrrrr

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          Crazdwriterposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          lol Ron down boy down!

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             Ron Montgomeryposted 14 years agoin reply to this

             That's what she said.

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                Crazdwriterposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                Oh Ron you are too funny

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    cosetteposted 14 years ago

    i just got "The Associate" by John Grisham. i have yet to crack it open but it's there waiting.

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    Crazdwriterposted 14 years ago

    read me Cosette read me *cough*

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       cosetteposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       i'd love to. where is it?

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          Crazdwriterposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          that's your book calling for you to read it lol

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    cosetteposted 14 years ago

    OHhhhh
    
    haha.....

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    Crazdwriterposted 14 years ago

    John Grisham is calling to you, cosette answer his calls

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    Kika Roseposted 14 years ago

    I got a good book I'm reading right now.
    
    Heroes of the Valley, by Jonathan Stroud.
    
    AMAZING AUTHOR, also wrote the book series The Bartimaeus Trilogy. They're young adult novels, but I don't get that young adult feel from them. It's like reading Stephanie Meyer's book The Host; nothing like Twilight in any possible way, and thank God.
    
    ... I was starting to seriously get sick of Twilight, and I'm a huge fangirl.

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    Jackson Riddleposted 14 years ago

    My first non-classic book in ages. Freakonomics, quite interesting.

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    Ken R. Abellposted 14 years ago

    The Given Day by Dennis Lehane.
    
    Good story by a good storyteller.  Can't beat that combo.

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    Dominatrixposted 14 years ago

    I am currently reading Jaid black Trek Mi Quan . I am like super hooked I am trying to drag it out

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    Bibowenposted 14 years ago

    Time and Eternity by William Lane Craig

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    Mark Knowlesposted 14 years ago

    The Greatest Show on Earth : The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
    
    Excellent read.

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       poetlorraineposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       I thought you were already converted Mark....

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    europewalkerposted 14 years ago

    The Help by Kathryn Stockett

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    Justine76posted 14 years ago

    revenge inc by Dohn121

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    Kim Cantrellposted 14 years ago

    I am reading "Doc" by Jack Olsen. Though published in the late 80s, I'm finding it to be more superbly written than many true crime books these days.

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    RooBeeposted 14 years ago

    March by Geraldine Brooks
    Reading it for a class, and it's very good so far.

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    Denno66posted 14 years ago

    Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

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    Ron Montgomeryposted 14 years ago

    The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell

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       RooBeeposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Ah, that was my favorite reference and guide book when I was a young lass. It was banned, but I had a bootleg. Always be prepared, for you never know when you might need to fashion a gym whistle into an implement of death..

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    poetlorraineposted 14 years ago

    i think i will start at Genesis again, what say you

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    Will Apseposted 14 years ago

    I doubt if there are a 100 books written in English within fifty miles of where I live.
    
    I have ten of them. They are well read.

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    Dukayneposted 14 years ago

    I'm currently reading The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, and Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb (who is a freakin amazing author, by the way).

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       Crazdwriterposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       I LOVE the complete works of Edgar Allen Poe and have read all of them too. they are GREAT!

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    alaskacbmfposted 14 years ago

    Just finished "BANDIT Big Black Dog Who Stole My Heart" by Carol Bradshaw, and her black labrador retriever, Bandit.  Great book, and hope many will read it and enjoy it!

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       Crazdwriterposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       that sounds like a book I would enjoy

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    wsp2469posted 14 years ago

    I have 4 books started NOT including a philosophy book I started years ago and misplaced and a coffee table book my son got me on DC Comics action figures.
    The book I am reading regularly at this point is called "The Best Music You've Never Heard".  In fact, it has inspired me in regards to future hubs as well as enlarging my music collection!

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    Leta Sposted 14 years ago

    One on Spinoza, one on Forex...  Oh, and one on drawing the figure.

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    BEAUTYBABEposted 14 years ago

    I am reading a lovely warm, touching and beautiful book at the moment about an insight into  the roller coaster of emotions that were experienced by two loving parents. The parents are Ron and Carolyn Delezio, whose daughter little Sophie was trapped under a burning car in her childcare centre at the tender age of five years. The book is a collection of the priviate journals showing an intimate view of their lives and how their hearts have broken every time they see their dear little Sophie go throught her day to day recovery from her not one but two near fatal accidents. She also had an accident when she was hit on a pedestrian crossing. The book gives inspiration to other families that may be going through their own personal tragedies. It shows how you can be knocked down with so much grief one minute and then be once again lifted up by the tenderness of your family, friends and all the people who are there to support you in any way they can.
    I enjoyed this book so much, this is the second time I am reading.
    
    The name of this book for any one who is interested in reading it is called" A letter to Sophie"  from her Mum and dad's private diaries  by Carolyn Martin & Ron Delezio with Sally Collings.
    I recommend this book to anyone who loves to read a book where there has been family grief but have won their battle and are getting through it, as these diaries show.   BB

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    J Rosewaterposted 14 years ago

    I am reading Robert Goddard's latest: Found Wanting. I read pretty much everything he writes. My favourite was Days Without Number. These are family sagas if you like, in a contemporary setting in England. They have mystery and a few twists. And a bit of wry romance. Rather good. I've just finished one by Carol Goodman called the Night Villa, and I'm also in the middle of one by Donna Leon: one of her Venice mysteries.

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    M Burgerposted 14 years ago

    I am reading The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen. I have a Nevada Barr book waiting anxiously for me to start. Love her books.

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    bojanglesk8posted 14 years ago

    Sadly, I'm not reading anything right now. But I will very soon.

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    daiyaunnaposted 14 years ago

    READING MY BOOK, POSTED TO MY PAGE, CHECK OUT FIRST CHAPTER.

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    lyricsingrayposted 14 years ago

    drivers license handbook for the second time

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       mega1posted 14 years agoin reply to this

       That's a great "how to" book, isn't it!

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    mega1posted 14 years ago

    reading Desiring Italy - anthology of women writers all about Italy edited by Susan Cahill - very nice
    
    just finished Amy Tan's THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES and Anne Tyler's BACH WHEN WE WERE GROWNUPS
    
    found all three of these at a thrift store for $1 and $2!!!

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