What book are you reading?

[danham]

Hi everyone. I have just finished reading Enders game. It is a great book I recommend you all to read it.

[Frances]

Returned the porn star’s book to the library without reading how gross Trump’s toadstool dick is.
We get the picture.

[Frances]

Skimmed Paul Stanley's self-helpish book, Backstage Pass.

Uh. WTF is wrong with him? You don't call it that and have four chapters about your wife and kids.

Literally not worth the ten minutes required to read it.

But that was obvious, I suppose. His audiobook reading is hysterical though. Oh boy.

[Villajohn]

Put Your Hand in My Hand. Written by Harvey Sawler.The Spiritual and Musical Connections of Catherine and Gene Maclellan.A lovely book about two remarkable singer songwriters.

[Low D]

How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System, by Wolfgang Streeck

Just started, but my prediction: Poorly.

[Frances]

Excerpts of Chris Kattan's autobiography.
I have no idea...

[Low D]

STAGGER LEE by Derek McCulloch and Shepherd Hendrix

A really terrific graphic novel, using the truth, mythology and legend of the "Stag" Lee Shelton story, by way of the numerous songs it inspired and a sprinkling of fresh imagination too. It reads like a really brilliant movie storyboard, with some telling detail in the graphic frames and a lovely colloquial flair to the text. Derek is a sometime Medusan and sent me this book, I can only assume, because Stagger Lee shot Billy Lyons for messing with his hat, in which case, even the loss of my hat in San Francisco has a happy ending.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/review/boo ... 0_,00.html

I just came across this at the library. It's a great read, the true-ish story of what happened after Stagger Lee shot Billy (speculative fiction filling the blanks in the historical record), a story about the song writing & it's author, and a history of the song itself, all in one. There's even a pie chart showing the distribution of motive for the shooting in the many versions of the song existent!

[Welshie]

CJ Sansom Shardlake book The Revelation.
Cheers
Aled

[Pogues to Niagara]

I'd like to read that Stagger Lee book....better check my library
Thanks Low D

[Frances]

[old barney greyheron]

The Testaments..(long time coming sequel to The Handmaid's Tale)
The Cold Six Thousand..James Ellroy, 2nd book in a series of three..first is American Trilogy, third is Blood's A Rover...hellish stuff!

[Frances]

A foray into sesquipedalian wonder where ugly words like pellucid, scutiform (and whatnot) flourish.
The ulcer bit, But the man from Del Monte... made me laugh.

Also, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks.

[Frances]

Gonna run some errands then chill the fuck out and read one of my Christmas presents.

We sent Mr. Waters a postcard at the bookstore in Baltimore, but it was a rushed effort done while staying a week in DC.
I should redo.

[Niall]

The passage by Justin Cronin

[firehazard]

Over the weekend I finished Chernobyl Prayer, by Svetlana Alexievich, who was a journalist living in Minsk at the time of the Chernobyl explosion.

The book's based on (and largely reproduces) interviews with many locals and other people involved in the disaster and its aftermath. Some of the experiences are reflected in the Chernobyl TV series. It's pretty devastating stuff, but well worth reading.