Balancing [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Hot-Shoe-Diaries-Flashes-Voices/dp/0321580141/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238103928&sr=8-1"]The Hot Shoe Diaries[/ame] and [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Farewell-Arms-Scribner-Classics/dp/0684837889/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238103975&sr=1-1"]A Farewell to Arms[/ame].
Just finished: This is the prequel to Yellow Raft in Blue Water, a tale about a troupe of Native Americans in Montana and Seattle. Cloud Chamber begins with story of the great-grandmother of one of the main characters in Yellow Raft... I can recommend both Cloud Chamber and Yellow Raft... I just started: I'm about 50 pages in... It's satisfying but not momentous. I decided to try reading a number of relatively popular novels by female authors. I'll read this next:
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/What-Would-Google-Jeff-Jarvis/dp/0061709719"]Amazon.com: What Would Google Do?: Jeff Jarvis: Books[/ame]
I felt like I needed a break from this, so I went to something a little lighter. So far, the stories have not been of the quality I've come to expect from these anthologies, but I have a ways to go.
Cold Heart, Cruel Hand: A Novel of Hereward the Wake and the Fen Rebellion of 1070-1071 by Laurence J. Brown
Just started: Which means I will probably be reading this for the whole month... 1200 pages, but I am definitely looking forward to it...
Just started this one... [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Walking-Back-Cat-Robert-Littell/dp/0143113577/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238767371&sr=8-1"]Walking Back the Cat by Robert Littell[/ame]
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Revenge-Novel-Stephen-Fry/dp/0812968190"]Amazon.com: Revenge: A Novel: Stephen Fry: Books[/ame] --Stephen Fry's take on The Count Of Monte Cristo.
Read this years ago, and got through it - but it seems like it should have ended about three different times during the book. I'd be interested in hearing your take on the continuity of story line when you have finished.
Always By My Side: A Father's Grace and a Sports Journey Unlike Any Other, by Jim Nantz I have long admired Jim Nantz and his easygoing broadcasting style. This is a fine read, combining stories of his father, the ache of having his father descend into the hell of Alzheimer's, and the broadcasting trip from the Super Bowl to the Final Four and The Masters that he made in 2007. A nice telling of stories from his career, and a look inside the broadcasting world.
Lights Out for the Territory by Iain Sinclair. Interesting reports about various walks around London, sometimes to specific destinations, sometimes not. Hard to tell when whether he's fictionalizing people and places, too, which makes it interesting.
I stopped reading this because I cannot get into Ellroy's style (the books probably are more entertaining as movies).