So...what are you reading (Vol VI)

Seems like it is time to start a new thread - we are way over the post limit of 500 in Vol V!

see previous thread here:

http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=617917

I am in a book club - this month we are reading

"The Lover" by Margaret Duras





A short, award winning novel - although I am finding it hard to read.

"In this sad, cool, short novel, Duras tells the largely autobiographical story of a 15-year-old European girl's first affair with an older Chinese man in French Indochina during the 1930s. Stereotypes and expectations are inverted: she is poor, he wealthy; she seduces him, not vice versa; she controls the relationship, does not love him though he is hopelessly besotted with her, and she dictates all the terms, including how and when it ends. Duras uses cinematic techniques -- flashbacks and forwards, repetitions, incidents cut up and interrupted by seemingly unrelated descriptions -- and switches between first and third person to enrich what at first seems a fairly dry and unadorned narrative. A depressing yet eloquent work of art."

Heir to the Glimmering World, by Cynthia Ozick
Book of Fate, by Brad Meltzer

I finished Wired for War, now I need something new to read. I've got a few Photoshop books to thumb through in the meantime.

The Alehouse Murders by Maureen Ash, the first in a series of Medieval murder mysteries


Buckeye Dreams: The Tyler "Tank" Whaley Story, by Ken Gordon

I love Kapuściński.

Thanks, chazsoccer; ever since I switched to Firefox from Windows Explorer, I have not been able to get a picture to post in here.

I thought I had taken that out before I posted.

No worries - you will need to post images hosted on the web somewhere (rather than from your C:drive) if you want to include pictures.

OK - finished "The Lovers" - odd little book, worth a read.

Now reading "The Hours"

Culture, politics and sport by garry whannel, just got it from library new books section

The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri

"The Coyote Kings of the SpaceAge Bachelor Pad", by Mininster Faust, a black Canadian. Very entertaining.
"FlashMan's Lady" -- I can't remember the writer's name, and I can't believe I went so long without someone making me read these "Flashman" books. They're hysterical.

Coyote Kings is a lot of fun.

I'm reading Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist and about to start The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

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Just finished Mark Leyner's Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog

currently without a book, but I'd like some recommendations on fiction set in SE Asia (preferably not fiction about the US in Vietnam, since I've read a good number of those)

thanks

I don't have any southeast Asia suggestions, but I have an East Asia suggestion:

Ha Jin's War Trash. New York Times review here

finished :

in the middle of:

Working on Oliver Twist at home. Reading these essays at lunch at work:

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Just finished the audio version of Blasphemy by Douglas Preston. A little out there, and not quite what I expected in terms of where the story would go.

The Beach
Alex Garland

The movie sucked, but the book was good.

Here's what I'm reading.