What Are You Reading

[DesertDan]

I just finished the 8th book of the Dresden Files (Proven Guilty) and will be starting "White Night" this evening.

[Oscar]

Currently going through A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens... actually I haven't read it in the past couple days, I should really get to it. It's a good book.

[Mr Badger]

Over the past week or so I've finished Alexander Baron's excellent 'spiv' novel, "The Lowlife"; very much enjoyed the cantankerous Ray Milland's autobio, "Wide-Eyed In Babylon"; found David Ritz's bio of jazz vocalist 'Little' Jimmy Scott, "Faith In Time", quite touching; and laughed quite heartily at the pomp of Peter York's "Style Wars"...

I'm currently a third of the way through the Pythons' autobiography, which is pretty great, and halfway into Rick Bragg's beautiful "Eva's Man"...

Next up is Max Decharné's "King's Road - The Rise And Fall Of The Hippest Street In The World" (sadly, it was all 'fall' when I worked there), and Glenn David Gold's "Sunnyside", which I've heard is a bit of a dog's dinner but I'll give it a try...

[Marla]

"Orchids On Your Budget -- or, Live Smartly On What You Have," by Marjorie Hillis, the 1937 sequel to her best-selling "Live Alone And Like It." Sage advice for the single woman trying to live elegantly on a diminished income, presented in a delightfully hands-on-hips-and-tossed-curls manner. The gals here who haven't discovered Hillis's books need to head to Bookfinder pronto -- she's a woman for our time.

Sound like just the book I need! I'm going to try to get a copy.

[natidahling]

"Orchids On Your Budget -- or, Live Smartly On What You Have," by Marjorie Hillis, the 1937 sequel to her best-selling "Live Alone And Like It." Sage advice for the single woman trying to live elegantly on a diminished income, presented in a delightfully hands-on-hips-and-tossed-curls manner. The gals here who haven't discovered Hillis's books need to head to Bookfinder pronto -- she's a woman for our time.

Sound like just the book I need! I'm going to try to get a copy.

Me too, me too!
So glad I looked at this thread!
Thanks LizzieM

[MikeBravo]

Currently reading 'Lovers' by Linda Sunshine about on-screen and off-screen romances, review: "Entertaining, albeit familiar gossip, trivia and melodramatic plot lines pepper the pages. Reading about these real and fictional affairs may prompt a trip to the video shop to rent a few screen classics"

[MikeBravo]

oops duplicated post

Not sure what I will read next, something different

[Wally_Hood]

Just finished The Great Gatsby. Amazing lyricism counterpointed with a great deal of unpleasantness.
Now it's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

[Derek Cavin]

For some reason I am on a Western kick. Currently reading Outlaw Lawman. It is okay. A lot of cliche'. Thinking about hitting a classic soon.

[V.C. Brunswick]

Albatros Aces of World War 1 (Aircraft of the Aces 32)
by Norman Franks
(Botley, Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2000)

Titanic: Sinking the Myths
by D.E. Bristow
(Fresno, CA: Katco Literary Group, 1995)

and last but not least this recent eBay find...

Flying Scale Models of WWII
by William C. Northrop, Jr. (editor)
(Santa Ana, CA: Model Builder Magazine, 1974)