• silverwhisper said on Jul 26, 2006....

  given that i'm working on a few writing projects, both fiction & non, i'm actually not reading much of anything. the non-fiction i already know what i need to know; the fiction, i don't need to do any more research now. sorry, i suck... ...for the right person... :D ed

• Zayda said on Jul 26, 2006....

  [trout-smacks Silver] /sigh

• cfamommy said on Jul 26, 2006....

  OK, I've got one: I'm reading [u]The Kite Runner[/u] by Khaled Hosseini. It came highly recommended (I borrowed it from a friend), and I'm enjoying it way more than I thought I would. I've nearly cried a few times, and that hasn't happened much since my antidepressants started working. =) Even better, though, I recently read [u]East of Eden[/u] by John Steinbeck. I thought it was one of those ones I was "supposed" to read (I'd never read anything by Steinbeck before), but I was completely hooked before the end of the first chapter. I told my friends that it's a book that you just want to wrap around you like a cozy blanket. The writing is beautiful. I may or may not have neglected my child while reading this book... But that's just my opinion.

• silverwhisper said on Jul 26, 2006....

  ah, i did remember one book: the battle (war?) for god, by karen armstrong. it's very slow reading. it's about the rise of fundamentalism in theology. ed

• PinkElephant77 said on Jul 26, 2006....

  I'm re-reading the Shining by Stephen King. It's funny, but every year around mid summer, I start getting into the horror thing. I LOVE HALLOWEEN! By the time it rolls around, I've seen all of my scary movies in my collection! Good book, though; I enjoy his early work.

• Zayda said on Jul 27, 2006....

  Silver: That actually sounds kind of interesting. Cfamommy: Kite Runner is on my list of books to read this summer. I picked it up a about a week ago.

• Expendable said on Jul 27, 2006....

  O.O You trout-slapped Silver.... Where did I see that giant trout again? I'm reading Bujold, SF. And just finished Slay and Rescue by John Moore. And I should be reading that Instant Expert book... *sigh* When I'm not writing, I'm also reading and critiquing at two sites and just this week finishing up a little writing contest. No prize, just that warm fuzzy feeling like a bathrobe just out of the dryer.

• Zayda said on Jul 27, 2006....

  I'm just evil that way when it comes to Silver. :P

• purple said on Jul 27, 2006....

  I am reading a series by Terry Goodkind. I'm on the 6th one "The Pillars of Creation". It's a sword and sorcery epic. I love the strong roles he has given to the women in the story. I have about 20 pages left and then I have to find the 7th book in the series somewhere. On my 43things.com list, I have 'read 100 books this year' and I'm way behind. Partly because it takes me forever and a day to read one of Terry's thick books. He certainly doesn't believe in cutting any corners.

• FaithfulDisciple said on Jul 27, 2006....

  What else but all of the magnificent posts here at Soulcast. Never have I seen a variety so diverse and interesting as the topics are dealt with great sincerity and humor, that the ill effects of reading and commenting to it can be so satisfyingly addictive.

• silverwhisper said on Jul 27, 2006....

  [trout-smacks zayda and ex, just for the halibut] i'm also re-reading a RPG book i borrowed from my friend. ed

• Alyss said on Jul 27, 2006....

  Currently I am working my way through the most recent George Martin book (A feast for crows) but I have a pile of others to read and not much time to do so. I think I need a week without net access to catch up on my reading!

• Zayda said on Jul 27, 2006....

  Alyss: I bought my husband the George Martin series, of which A Feast for Crows is the in, based on the recommendation of a friend. Said husband hasn't started it yet; he doesn't seem to be interested even though sci-fi and fantasy are his favorite genre. I skimmed part of the first chapter of the first book and decided that I will probably end up reading them. I am currently reading The Four Agreements: A Toltec Wisdom Book by Don Miguel Ruiz. I am also reading Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. (It's the story of how the boy Peter became Peter Pan.)

• ice-queen said on Jul 27, 2006....

  Currently trying to finish a angels and demons, on top of the many other ethics article that i need to do some critiquing for one of my graduate class subjects....

• Zayda said on Jul 27, 2006....

  Angels and Demons, IMHO, was better than The Davinci Code.

• ice-queen said on Jul 27, 2006....

  z, i think so too. i'm half finished with the book, i just have to postpone reading it everytime my tots come to me to let me read to them their fairy tale stories... so basically, my last read, just before blogging here was the frog prince and hansel and gretel :)

• Zayda said on Jul 27, 2006....

  Ohhh...I love children's books. Right now, my son's favorite is I'm a Manatee. I think I've read that at least 500 times in the last month.

• JadeLondon said on Jul 27, 2006....

  My all time favorite book is called "The Time Traveller's Wife". I'll be damned if I can remember the name of the author. Audrey, something. Anyway--it is so good. And part of the time, you'll put the book down and ponder it. The whole time travel/paradox thing is very prevailent throughout the book (like that isn't obvious from the title). You really have to wrap your brain around it. Her prose is beautiful, the story moving. Right now, I'm reading "Pohl Stars" by Fredrick Pohl. It's sci-fi. Strangely enough, though, I like the older sci-fi authors. I find it amusing to see what they thought our society would be like today. When I was a child, my grandmother gave me an encyclopedia set from the sixties. I still remember the drawing of the hovercrafts (like something straight out of "The Jetsons").

• bloc said on Jul 27, 2006....

  ||{1}|| by howard zinn

• bloc said on Jul 27, 2006....

  oh, my favorite book is Walden by Henry David Thoreau

• Zayda said on Jul 27, 2006....

  I have come to the conclusion that I do not have an all time favorite book. I love too many of them. Walden is one of my favorites. I am hooked on Patricia Cornwell's books as well. I'm also a big fan of C.S. Lewis and JRR Tolkien. And I really like Neal Stephenson's work as well as Harry Turtledove's work.

• magitam said on Jul 27, 2006....

  Hi there! Just joined Soulcast today, so I thought I'd add my reading to the list too!! I've just started reading Dreamwalker - the Path of Sacred Power, by Mary Summer Rain. It's about a lady whose learning from a native american elder, as far as I can gather, to be in harmony with spirit, and nature... Only started to touch the first chapter... but it's cover sounds like it's going to be an excellent book to get through. I love reading books which teach you about different indigenous traditions, as well as inspire you in ways that stretch the imagination, if you choose to let them.

• rochella said on Jul 27, 2006....

  purple: I'm reading the same Terry Goodkind series! I'm on the fifth one. Additionally, I am also reading Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut and I just finished Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, which is being made into a movie, and which I thoroughly enjoyed.

• Zayda said on Jul 27, 2006....

  Magitam: Welcome to Soulcast. And that sounds like a really interesting book. The Don Miguel Ruiz book that I mentioned I was reading draws on Native American traditions. It's been fascinating so far to see how he has drawn from those traditions and used them to explain some concepts of Christianity.

• Magicland said on Jul 27, 2006....

  A book I can read, again and again, is "Stormy Night" by Michèle Lemieux - it seems to be a childrens' book for early readers with simple sentences and black-and-white drawings, but it asks all those questions the great philosophers have asked before and will ask infuture. And - for this I love the book - it does not give any answers!!! Yes, Zayda, some of those Sisters in Crime, Cornwell is one of them. Always enjoyed Douglas Adams... Poems - Dylan Thomas. Sylvia Plath, Rainer Maria Rilke... By the way, Rilke's "Letters to a young Poet" is wonderful - and Stephen King's "On Writing"

• rochella said on Jul 27, 2006....

  I looove Douglas Adams.

• rochella said on Jul 27, 2006....

  Oh, by the way, have any of you ever read Craig Thompson? He write graphic novels that I love. Especially Blankets.

• extern14 said on Jul 27, 2006....

  Thirteen Senses. It's a biography about a Mexican marriage that has struggled for the last 50 years. It's a great insight into the culture. The first book was Rain of Gold, which I loved and would want anyone else to read as well. They are both very long books - just to warn you.

• LadyGamer said on Jul 27, 2006....

  Thieves of Heaven The first novel by Richard Doetsch A retired thief who was caught at his last job because he saw a heinous crime in progress and could not allow it to continue. He went to jail to save a stranger and lost his chance at youthful retirement. It's a good read so far. I'll let you know how I like it when I have finished.

• Alyss said on Jul 28, 2006....

  The George RR Martin books have all been very good so far so I hope you (or your DH) like them. And it looks like my comment about needing a break with no net access is going to happen as we have a family break arranged to what seems to be the outback!

• Zayda said on Jul 28, 2006....

  LG: That sounds interesting. Do let us know when you finish. I'm always on the look for a new good book/author. Has anyone read Michael Connelly's [i]The Poet.[/i] It's actually a pretty good read with a great twist at the end. And the academic in me loves Richard Russo's [i]The Straight Man[/i], which is about an English Department at a university. I read it and [b]see[/b] members of my own department as the characters.

• rainsallday said on Jul 28, 2006....

  I am hooked on Patricia Cornwell's books as well. Though, the repetition of theme is starting to bore me. I continue to buy them, and cannot stop myself; it's like a drug really.

• babyextreme said on Jul 29, 2006....

  GOsh~ before i join soul cast . . is a certainty that i seldom read but loLZ guess what . . ALL the storiez and blogz u all post *especially silverwhisper* are all interesting and truely gain lots stuff . . at the same times we post not only to share but also to release what's deep inside ourselves at times . . anyway stay cool guyz . . Luv u gUyz ~~

• nadinetannous said on Jul 29, 2006....

  I read mostly thrillers. At the moment I;m reading Peter Skzrynecki's poems from Immigrant Chronicle for school- pretty good actually.

• hotaka said on Jul 29, 2006....

  Recently I have abandoned my senses and I am only reading SoulCast. What the heck is wrong with me? I have books on the shelf waiting to be cracked open. I bought several science books to read for inspiration. But this week I am totally hooked on SoulCast. It's not just the entries and the comments I write. I am surfing blogs in search of gripping material. I guess it's just a phase. Last week I stayed up late trying to play a keyboard at school. Before that I was writing some new articles. Once I get back to it I will be reading about Breaking the Time Barrier, The Science Behind the Fiction of Star Wars, and a book about volcanoes of north-eastern Japan, which is in Japanese so I will actually not be reading it as much as I will be deciphering it as best as I can.

• hunter_boyce_chandler said on Jul 29, 2006....

  I've dug out an old volume from my library that I truly love and just started it again. Kalki by Gore Vidal

• hunter_boyce_chandler said on Jul 30, 2006....

  Vidal wrote of a fictional world where Hindu terrorists declare war on mankind in a jihad, and actually win.

• silverwhisper said on Jul 30, 2006....

  you don't see a lot of hindu terrorists, generally. of course, the practice of [i]ahimsa[/i] kinda runs against it... ed

• crazyrelations said on Jul 31, 2006....

  Stumbled on this post my second day here, and am constantly reading, so I thought I'd share some of the books on my bedside table: Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy (also finished his Status Anxiety and currently reading his The Architecture of Happiness) - Brilliant book (and writer), makes big ideas easier to swallow Daniel Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness - Explains a lot about what goes on inside our heads J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit - Every year I cycle through this book and The Lord of the Rings series Am also looking for good, gripping contemporary fiction. Just read James Frey's A Million Little Pieces, and while he may be full of shit, at least it's good shit.

• LayaMaria said on Aug 04, 2006....

  "Christy" by Catherine Marshall... I also collect mysteries: Lilian Jackson Braun's "[i]The Cat Who[/i]"; Barbara Michaels/Elizabeth Peters, especially the Amelia Peabody books (I've got a thing for Ramses); Carolyn Hart and "[i]Death on Demand[/i]" (I'm trying to find all the books she mentions in the series!); Dick Francis. And fantasy: Sword and Sorceress, Catfantastic (I like cats), Anne McCaffrey's Pern and Talented books, Sharon Shinn's Harmonics books, starting with [i]Archangel[/i], Marion Zimmer Bradley's [i]Darkover[/i]. I also read Judith Krantz and Olivia Goldsmith, Amy Tan, and if I really really wanted to laugh and feel good, James Herriot (that hilarious part about getting a semen sample from a bull still has me in stitches everytime I read it). Right now I'm on [i]Dragon's Blood[/i] by Jane Yolen.. it's good!

• LayaMaria said on Aug 05, 2006....

  oh gosh, did I forget to put in Catherine Neville: [i]The Eight[/i], [i]The Magic Circle[/i], and [i]A Calculated Risk[/i]... also Anne Rice's [i]Vampire Chronicles[/i]. I've got about 500 paperbacks divided between my three residences and reread them all over again whenever I don't have anything new to read.

• anarchist said on Aug 06, 2006....

  Z, does the question [i]what are you reading?[/i] mean... (a) what [i]have[/i] you read? (books you've read) or (b) what you [i]are[/i] reading? (a book you're currently reading) Hehe. Anyway, I am currently reading "The Death of Artemio Cruz" by Carlos Fuentes. He is absolutely brilliant. I recommend it to everyone who loves reading and getting good lines from literary works. I just finished Gaiman's "Smoke and Mirrors" collection and he (Gaiman) remains as my top author of choice. Cheerio!

• Zayda said on Aug 07, 2006....

  Anarchist: When I asked it, I wanted to know what books people were currently reading. But, it can mean whichever you want it to mean in your post.

• secretlife said on Aug 10, 2006....

  Ann Rand's Atlas Shrugged........and loving it.

• ayinkurie said on Aug 11, 2006....

  My passion - Fairy Tales, Aesop Fables...Growing kids at home. Some local authors. And of course soulcasters' daily

• Zayda said on Aug 11, 2006....

  Atlas Shrugged is one of my favorites. I tend to gravitate toward it now and again.

• lostintranslation said on Aug 16, 2006....

  I got Leon Surmelian's [i]Techniques of Fiction Writing[/i] at a used-books store and have been trying to finish it eversince. Interesting read, would be of interest to writers. Skip the paperback intro, though, because it's too pedantic and mostly failed to introduce the book or its contents. Also, a compilation of essays by James Thurber.

• okelay said on Sep 05, 2006....

  i just took out a shakespeare book out of the library.
  4 comedies. i'm not sure if these are the 4 great comedies or what.
  it has
  -as you like it
  -midnight summer's dream
  -twelfth night
  -the tempest
  
  the first two ive read, the other two i havent
  midnight summer's dream i've only read in spanish so i'm looking forward to the english version
  
  oh and im also reading many many fics
  

• silverwhisper said on Sep 06, 2006....

  presently, i'm reading tony bourdain's the nasty bits, a collection of his articles published previously. short pieces really suit his style well.
  
  ed
  

• Zayda said on Dec 04, 2006....

  Silver--How was The Nasty Bits?  I'm considering buying it for my cousin who loves to read, loves to cook, and is as equally obsessed with FN and other food shows as you and I are.
  <br><br>
  

• silverwhisper said on Dec 04, 2006....

  i found it very entertaining reading. he dishes a bit about the circumstances surrounding his departure from food network (they didn't pay him much).
  
  ed

• Zayda said on Dec 04, 2006....

  Very odd that my html showed up in that last comment.
  
  Thanks BTW, I might buy it for her as part of her Christmas present. :)

• writing_guru said on Dec 07, 2006....

  I'm re-reading Madness and Civilization:  A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault

• Zayda said on Dec 07, 2006....

  Writing_Guru:  I read Madness and Civilization in grad school several years ago, and enjoyed it.  I might pick it up and reread it over the Christmas holidays. 
  
  Thanks for stopping by this blog, btw.
  

• solamente_me said on Dec 09, 2006....

  I'm reading an old favorite:   A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain.

• shiningstar said on Apr 13, 2007....

  I like Gerry Spence,  the lawyer who wears the buckskins on CNN.  He has a book called "From Freedom To Slavery"  that I read and reread.  Also I read "The Last Waltz of The Tyrants",  a wonderful book that eludes to the world we are living in and tells of events to come in our world. It tells of the build up of world powers and where that comes from and is leading us into.

• Zayda said on Jul 14, 2007....

  I just finished reading Frank Herbert's Dune and was really disappointed in it.

• shiningstar said on Jul 15, 2007....

  I am reading Jesus or Jehovah(new book) and rereading long time favorite Ishmael.

• silverwhisper said on Jul 16, 2007....

  i'm re-reading the three musketeers. again. :>
  
  ed

• Moelt said on Sep 11, 2007....

  Even though I'm too old to be considered young
  again. . . :). . but I found a new children's fantasy
  book that I liked a lot. It's called Ezekiel Mayhill and
  the Crystal of God. It's the first book in a new series.
  I'm thinking this new series is going to be as good
  as the Harry Potter books. Now I know I raised a
  few eyebrows with that statement, but I really do. I
  got my copy at lulu.com but you can find it at
  amazon.com now, too. See what you think.

• Zayda said on Sep 11, 2007....

  Moelt--Welcome to my blog. I'll check that out. I particularly like some series that are aimed at children/teenagers/young adults. I am starting the Children of the Lamp series. So, I'll see how that goes.
  
  I just finished reading A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah. It's a memoir of a young man from Sierra Leone who got caught up in the war there and became a boy solider.

• Moelt said on Sep 11, 2007....

  Hey, thanks for the welcome.  :)  I'm glad you're
  going to check out the new Zeke Mayill book.
  I'm wanting to start a blog section here to talk
  about it and am trying to find some people who
  have read it.
  I could be wrong, but after reading this first book,
  I think the new series can easily be as good as the
  Harry Potter books. We will, of course, see after
  the second book comes out, but I really think
  the first book is as good. I'm looking forward to
  hearing what other people think.

• tbs230 said on Nov 05, 2007....

  I'm reading the Book of God by Walter Wangerin Jr., it's the bible written as a novel. I just cracked open the first page, I'll let you know if it's any good. But I mean, come on...you know the story line...
  

• Zayda said on Nov 05, 2007....

  I finished Memoirs of a Geisha about a week ago and just finished Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night this past weekend.  I also finished Alice Hoffman's Indigo last night.  I haven't decided what I am picking up next to read from my overly large stack of to-be-read books.
  

• Moelt said on Nov 05, 2007....

  Hey, Z, have you gotten the new book I mentioned earlier? Ezekiel Mayhill and the Crystal of God? I've been hearing more good things about it. Looks like it just might take off really big. Barnes and Noble, one of the major publishing houses, is now selling it, too, and books stores can order it now. The author, A K Stein, has a space over at myspace.com is where I got this info. I love the book and am looking forward to the next one.

• Zayda said on Nov 05, 2007....

  I haven't gotten it yet. I have a big stack of books on my too read list right now. I will probably pick it up some time after the first of the year.

• Moelt said on Nov 05, 2007....

  Okay, but I have to tell you. If you loved Harry Potter, you're liable to like this one, too. I did.

• Zayda said on Nov 05, 2007....

  Yes, you have mentioned that before.

• Zayda said on Nov 14, 2007....

  I finished Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson at the end of last week.
  
  Then two nights ago, I finished Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang.
  
  I've also been reading selections from Anthony Bourdain's The Nasty Bits.
  

• silverwhisper said on Nov 16, 2007....

  oo, i dig the nasty bits! are you enjoying it?
  
  ed

• Zayda said on Nov 25, 2007....

  Silver: Yes, I'm enjoying The Nasty Bits
  
  
  I also just finished The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

• silverwhisper said on Nov 25, 2007....

  [sigh]
  
  i feel like such a bad former english major when i read the new comments in this. i don't recall the last new book i actually read (and finished), apart from HP7...
  
  ed

• Zayda said on Nov 25, 2007....

  I simply just read more than you do, Ed. There is no reason to feel bad about that. Wait...Didn't you read Kushiel's Dart after you read HP7?

• silverwhisper said on Nov 25, 2007....

  well, i began it but i have not yet finished it--i have a few job search-related things that bumped it down in the queue.
  
  ed

• Zayda said on Nov 25, 2007....

  Ahh. I guess therein lies the difference. I set aside some time every evening to read a bit.
  
  
  I just started Iris Johansen's Stalemate last night.

• silverwhisper said on Nov 25, 2007....

  yeah, i find i can't read in the evenings lately, myself.
  
  ed

• Zayda said on Jan 27, 2008....

  Just finished Memory in Death by Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb.

• silverwhisper said on Jan 28, 2008....

  why did she use a pen name? i'm unfamiliar w/ that work: ?
  
  ed

• Zayda said on Jan 28, 2008....

  She started out using the pen name J.D. Robb for her mystery/thriller works. Then eventually her publicist suggested that they reveal that J.D. Robb was Nora Roberts as an additional way to promote the books and to perhaps draw some of the readers who read her as Nora Roberts to the other books.

• Zayda said on Jan 29, 2008....

  Last night, I picked up Catcher in the Rye and started reading it again--for what must be the umpteenth time.

• hotaka said on Jan 30, 2008....

  This post keeps coming up on My Conversations. So I'll reply again. I was reading four books at once. I would read one for a few days, then switch to another. Now I am trying to finish up all the partly read books because in the last two months I have ordered about 15 books from Amazon and all but one have arrived now. I am still partway through three books though.

  I am almost nearing the end of Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe. It's about string theory and though it's not too over my head it does still take time to read through. There are many discussions about discoveries in higher dimensions that are hard to imagine and so they have to be explained using lower dimension analogies. I am not sure why I strated reading it but I must finish it.

  Then I am also slowly working my way through What to Expect the First Year, which is about babies as you may have guessed. And I still have a bookmark in Star Wars: Where Imagination Meets Science Fiction. But I bought that one for a reference book only so I don't need to finish reading it.

• solamente_me said on Jan 31, 2008....

  Hotaka:  The Elegant Universe sounds fascinating.

  I'm reading Lord of the Flies.

• Zayda said on Jan 31, 2008....

  Hotaka--I'm always reading a handful of books at one time too. I just never really list the non-fiction stuff because it's mostly work related and/or research related.
  
  
  The Elegant Universe sounds intriguing, and I am interested in string theory. So, I may have to pick that one up.

• Zayda said on Feb 19, 2008....

  I'm currently reading The Catcher in the Rye.

• GracefullyGrowing said on Feb 19, 2008....

  Good grief.  I didn't mean to cop your title, Zayda!  Sorry about that.
   
  This seems to be an ongoing post.  That's cool.
   
  I'm currently reading "The Mind of God - The Scientific Basis for a Rational World" By Paul Davies;  "Constantine's Sword: the Church and the Jews -- A History" By James Carroll; and "The Road to Wealth" By Suze Orman
   
  ~Grace~

• Zayda said on Feb 19, 2008....

  PHHHBBBTTT.. Grace, it's okay. This is a really old post. Besides, it's not like people don't occasionally do the same posts. :)
  
  I think this post is only ongoing because I keep adding to it when I start reading something new, and occasionally Silver remembers to comment here when he reads something new or when he's curious about what I'm reading.
  
  
  Although I do kind of like that it's ongoing because I can look back on what I have read.

• silverwhisper said on Feb 20, 2008....

  i should pick up the catcher in the rye again...
  
  ed

• Zayda said on Feb 20, 2008....

  I'm not really enjoying Catcher very much this time around.

• silverwhisper said on Feb 20, 2008....

  i had that same problem around 10 years ago, which was the last time i picked it up. did you find it depressingly juvenile? that was my problem.
  
  ed

• Zayda said on Feb 20, 2008....

  I think that's part of it, Ed, but there's more to it as well, but I'm not sure exactly what it is.

• silverwhisper said on Feb 20, 2008....

  well, when you figure it out--and i say "when" rather than "should", b/c i know it's merely a matter of time with you--i'd be most curious to know.
  
  ed

• Irish-Eyes said on Mar 04, 2008....

  Irish Fireside Tales: Myths, Legends, Folktales edited by Leslie Conron.  It's pretty interesting.
  
  
  

• Zayda said on Mar 04, 2008....

  Hi, Irish. Thanks for stopping by my blog. I'm surprised you found this old entry.
  
  
  You know, I think I have that very book but haven't had a chance to read it yet.

• Zayda said on Mar 14, 2008....

  Silver: To answer your question about The Catcher in the Rye, I think that yes, I found it depressing juvenile this go around and I just wanted to smack Holden occassionally. Plus, I found myself really disliking a few of the minor characters that I had liked before.
  
  
  I'm currently reading Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and really enjoying it.

• silverwhisper said on Mar 15, 2008....

  [nods]
  
  i can see that, i think. i'm unfamiliar w/ tim o'brien: ?
  
  ed

• Alyss said on Mar 15, 2008....

  I'm not reading anything right now despite several books waiting on the shelf. < hangs head in shame >.

• Zayda said on Mar 15, 2008....

  Silver: He's an author I was exposed to in my favorite class in college: The Vietnam War in Literature and Film. We read his novel, Going After Cacciato in the class. It was a difficult read, not because of the subject, but because of the way O'Brien plays with reality in the novel.
  
  
  But ever since that class, I've been hooked on O'Brien's work as well as other written works and films on the Vietnam war.

• silverwhisper said on Mar 16, 2008....

  ah, thank you. is there a particular work by him that you would recommend? i ask b/c i have difficulty reading vonnegutt b/c he too plays with reality in his works.
  
  ed

• Zayda said on Mar 16, 2008....

  See, I don't find that with Vonnegutt at all.
  
  Well, for O'Brien's work, I would recommend The Things They Carried or his memoir, If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home, although Going After Cacciato is really good.
  

• silverwhisper said on Mar 16, 2008....

  hm...i've not read many memoirs so perhaps i'll go with that. thank you. :>
  
  ed

• fromtheheart said on Apr 15, 2008....

  hi zayda... i think i will visit your blog most of the times... coz i love books as well... i am actually workin in a bookstore and i am enjoying the benefit of my hobby.. i love "The SEcret " by Rhonda Byrne, there are times that i wanna believe but there are times that i don't, I read all the books ny Mitch Albom and some by Paulo Coelho.... Now I am starting to like Mary Higgins Clark and John Grisham. With regards to other non-fic.... i am into self help and my book "It's not About the Coffee (Secret of the success of Strurbucks) " is on the next read, i wanna try business..... but i don't like science fiction and fantasy.....

• Zayda said on Apr 16, 2008....

  fromtheheart: hello and welcome to my blog. thanks for visiting. i haven't read "the secret", but it is on my list of books i want to read. i am torn when it comes to albom's books. i really liked tuesdays with morrie, but his later works felt kind of flat to me. when it comes to non-fiction, i'm a big history reader and philosophy reader. i read all kinds of fiction.

• iamshay said on Apr 19, 2008....

  hey zayda,
   
  you've got great talent in writing.
  all your post seems very appealing.
   
  i love reading books as well..
  I read all the books of Paulo Coehlo and John Grisham. I find Dan Brown's novel
  brain twister :-)
   
  Christian books really helps me in many ways, life and faith in general.
   
  I've heard about tuesdays with morrie, but didn't get to read it.
  im thinking of buying the book for myself.
   
  you're a great inspiration....
   
   

• Zayda said on May 30, 2008....

  iamshay: I somehow missed your comment. Thank you for visiting my blog, and I am glad that you enjoy my posts.
  
  
  

• Zayda said on May 30, 2008....

  I'm currently reading two non-fiction works:
  
  
  A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska: The Story of Hannah Breece ~~ Jane Jacobs
  
  
  On Art and Life ~~ John Ruskin
  
  
  
  I've also just started a Patricia Cornwell novel, Trace

• Expendable said on May 30, 2008....

  I've just read John Moore's Bad Prince Charlie

• hotaka said on May 30, 2008....

  I have three books on the go now. In the train I am plugging slowly away at Ray Kurzwell's "The Singularity is Near". In the mornings I sometimes read Peter D. Ward's "Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, Mass Extinctions and What They Can Tell Us About the Future." And in the evenings I sometimes read "What to Expect the First Year," whose authors I have forgotten.

• Zayda said on Jun 05, 2008....

  I just finished John Saul's Black Creek Crossing.

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