What are we reading right now? (Planning related or not)

[otterpop]

I'm thinking about making a list of all the books I read this year. I haven't done that since elementary school.

I started doing this in 1982. I have a book of lists - different beers I've sampled and books I've read. To compile the list I backtracked and tried to remember the books I read prior to the list and came up with 99 (I didn't count "children's books"). Number 100, the book that began the official count was The World According to Garp.. Been a lot of books recorded since then. The years 2001-2004 were low producers - my son was a wee guy then, took a lot of attention, and was much more entertaining than reading a book. 2012 was my best year ever - 29 books.

Right now I am reading The Pumpkin Rollers, by Elmer Kelton. I was reading No Country for Old Men, but can't find where I last put it down.

[Mud Princess]

Novelist Richard Russo's new memoir, Elsewhere. I gave the book to hubby for Christmas and he finished it in record time; now it's my turn to read it.

[Zoning Goddess]

Tim Dorsey's "Riptide ultra-glide". Hysterically funny, as he always is. Just reading the dust jacket made me laugh. A top Florida author.

[Seabishop]

Timothy Ferris - Coming of Age in the Milky Way. So far a very readable book about the history of astronomy and our knowledge of the universe. I'm afraid the astrophysics will soon be over my head.

[Zoning Goddess]

William Kuhn's "Mrs Queen Takes the Train". It's an amusing novel with the "what if?" premise of Queen Elizabeth being a bit dispirited, finding herself in a borrowed stablekeeper's hoodie outside Buckingham Palace, and heading off on a nostalgic visit. Pursued thereafter by quirky palace staff and a guy from a cheese shop. Not a crazy-whacky novel like Carl Hiaasen. Serious at times, but very inventive and entertaining. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and I don't say that often.

[btrage]

I'm still reading the 3rd Teddy Roosevelt book.

I also just started reading the first Harry Potter novel. Yeah, I'm a little behind the times on this one.

I finished the first Harry Potter book a month or so ago. I was not impressed. But I will continue to read the series. My 9 year old daughter read it as well, so now we need to start watching the movies. She's already started in on the 2nd book.

I finished the last book in the Roosevelt trilogy earlier this week. My favorite part of the book was seeing how much our current day political atmosphere grew out of the 1890 - 1920 period.

I'm now reading The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest., the third book in that trilogy. I want to be friends with Lisbeth Salander. Maybe more.

[luckless pedestrian]

Lisa Gardner books - which is not smart when you live alone in a sleepy small town in a creaky house...

[Planit]

The Foursome by Troon McAllister.

A good little book in the 3-part Eddie Caminetti series. Insightful too looking into one's personalities.

[Zoning Goddess]

Lisa Gardner books - which is not smart when you live alone in a sleepy small town in a creaky house...

Haha. The first time I read "The Shining" I was 22, living alone, and there was a hideous thunderstorm raging all evening. Silly me.

[luckless pedestrian]

LOL ZG -

Maister - I can't believe you are trying to tempt me to FAC by starting a thread on my Lisa Gardner obsession...you cad!

actually right now I am reading a book called "Maine" (duh) by J Courtney Sullivan

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/bo...anted=all&_r=0

I need to feed the soap opera buff in me given I don't watch tv during the week and only watch The Good Wife for my fix on Sunday (and Downton Abbey on Hulu)

[Whose Yur Planner]

I I'm now reading The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest., the third book in that trilogy. I want to be friends with Lisbeth Salander. Maybe more.

That's one of the books I'm reading now. Interesting book and and interesting look into that culture.

[Zoning Goddess]

"The Good Girls Revolt" by Lynn Povich. In 1970, 46 female staffers at Newsweek filed a lawsuit against the news magazine, alleging sex discrimination in hiring and promoting; the author was one of them. It was followed the next few years by similar lawsuits against other news organizations. The Newsweek lawsuit was filed the same day the magazine cover story was "Women in Revolt", written by a newspaper reporter since Newsweek had no female writers at the time. This was only a decade before I graduated college and got my first professional job, and it is amazing, reading about the crap they dealt with.

[Zoning Goddess]

Christopher Buckley's "Boomsday". The premise of this novel is Congress triples taxes for young workers to continue entitlements for aging baby boomers, and there's a revolt starting with the destruction of golf courses in retirees' gated communities. So far, it's hilarious.

[ofos]

Re-reading a classic, Elvis Is Dead and I Don't Feel So Good Myself by Lewis Grizzard. I'd almost forgotten how funny the guy was.

[Maister]

I am currently between books, and that's a place I have not been at for more than a day or two in a long long time, but I'm going on three weeks now. Kinda strange, really.

[luckless pedestrian]

I am finishing up Maine: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/bo...anted=all&_r=0

In cue I have Lisa Gardner's Touch and Go: http://www.amazon.com/Touch-Go-Lisa-.../dp/0525953078

and Failure is not an option by my secret love/mentor Gene Kranz (no, really): http://www.amazon.com/Failure-Not-Op.../dp/1439148813

[Zoning Goddess]

Re-reading a classic, Elvis Is Dead and I Don't Feel So Good Myself by Lewis Grizzard. I'd almost forgotten how funny the guy was.

My son was a toddler, and we'd just left a friend's home in Atlanta, heading for Gatlinburg, when it came on the radio that Lewis Grizzard had died. So sad. Heart trouble, I think. I have that book, too, and it's one of my favorites,

[ofos]

Like otterpop, I am invariably reading several books at the same time. Just kind of leave them in various locations and pick them up when I'm there. At the moment, I'm in the middle or toward the end of books by Lewis Grizzard (Elvis is Dead...), Tony Hillerman (Fallen Man), and Garrison Keilor (Tales of Lake Wobegon). Now I've started PrairyErth by William Least Heat-Moon. Read Blue Highways a number of years ago, enjoyed it and thought it was time to pick up another of his books.

[Maister]

..and Garrison Keilor (Tales of Lake Wobegon).

Hey, by sheer coincidence I started Lake Wobegon Days this weekend.

[ursus]

Hey, by sheer coincidence I started Lake Wobegon Days this weekend.

I wanted to get that. Tell me if I still do. Can you give an opinion only a few chapters in?