What are You Reading?

[Munchkin]

City of Thieves by David Benioff everyone I recommend it to has loved it.

During the Nazis’ brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous directive: secure a dozen eggs for a powerful Soviet colonel to use in his daughter’s wedding cake. In a city cut off from all supplies and suffering unbelievable deprivation, Lev and Kolya embark on a hunt through the dire lawlessness of Leningrad and behind enemy lines to find the impossible.

By turns insightful and funny, thrilling and terrifying, City of Thieves is a gripping, cinematic World War II adventure and an intimate coming-of-age story with an utterly contemporary feel for how boys become men.

Sounds good. I will see if it's available from my library!

 

[conceit]

I am reading books on Meat cooking, right now lol. I eat meat, but I eat mostly vegetarian food (South Asian). So, I have been introducing more red meat etc. into my diet. I am learning about the various cuts and textures, cooking techniques etc. Pretty awesome!

I am also going to start reading Pema Chodron's (Buddhist writer) Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change. Reading a lot of Zen and Buddhist literature, partially in preparation for the upcoming changes post the DS.

 

[cajungirl]

I go through spells reading. Have 5 downloaded on my Kindle that I need to read. When I'm reading I ignore everything else that I should be doing.

Love to read James Patterson (sad he died), Dean Koonce and Nora Roberts.

Liz thanks for that link I bookmarked it.

I can't read more than one book at a time. I'm too ADD to keep up.

 

[Elizabeth N.]

Starting all of these more or less at once, for work (I'm doing fundraising for a Liberian couple who are going to build a school) and for class:

And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation (Agnes Kamara-Umunna)
The Wisdom of Listening (Mark Brady)
Something Greater: Culture, Family, and Community as Living Story (Jeanne Choy Tate)

For fun, I'm reading the latest "Jack Ryan" novel, Command Authority. (RIP Tom Clancy )

I've recently fallen in love with an author by the name of Oliver Pötzsch and his "Hangman's Daughter" series.

 

[KathyF]

Always looking for new books to read! I used to go to the library with friends and we picked out books for each other to read. It was a way to expose ourselves to something different. There was only one rule, you had to read the book. Once I was given one on Chinese footbinding.

Was the book on foot binding "Splendid Slippers"? The author is a friend of mine.

 

[Munchkin]

Was the book on foot binding "Splendid Slippers"? The author is a friend of mine.

No it wasn't. I read it years ago but I'm quite sure that wasn't the title. It had dozens of x-rays of tiny feet too. So you could see the bone structure induced by the binding. And their toes fell off. They were supposed to rejoice when this happened because it made their feet smaller. I will never forget that book!

 

[Paula]

I just started Heart: An American Medical Odyssey. It's authored by former VP Dick Cheney and his cardiologist Dr. Jonathan Reiner. It's written about Cheney's experiences living with heart disease and the innovations, discoveries, and science that have changed the face of cardiac medicine. So far, so good. And Im not a Cheney fan in the least

 

[Elizabeth N.]

Another excellent read: The World is a Carpet. It's nonfiction, telling the story of a village in Afghanistan that does not exist on any map, where one of the only sources of income is carpet weaving.

 

[ProteinSnob]

Some nice friend brought books instead of casseroles during my recovery, most of which are mysteries/crime novels by Donna Leon and set in Venice. The writing is gorgeous; now I want to visit Venice!

 

[conceit]

About to start reading "Three Pillars of Zen".

 

[JackieOnLine]

Some nice friend brought books instead of casseroles during my recovery, most of which are mysteries/crime novels by Donna Leon and set in Venice. The writing is gorgeous; now I want to visit Venice!

I see there are lots of these and my library has the first one!

 

[JackieOnLine]

just started reading Louise Penny's A Trick of the Light.

I love this series; make me want to take up painting and travel to Montreal and go live in a little village...