Just finished a wonderful book:

The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer

This is an epic novel (in size - 600 pgs - and scope) about Hungarian Jews in the 1930s and into WWII. It focuses on the middle son of a working class Jewish Hungarian family, Andras Levi, who gets a scholarship in 1937 to go to Paris and study architecture. While in Paris he meets the beautiful and older Claire Morgenstern, and from there the book becomes an amazing love story and then a difficult tragedy as the Germans close in first on Paris and then Hungary. The writing is beautiful and the book holds you, even though it is long. Highly recommended.

Although I've read most of her other work, I have finally begun Anne Rice's erotica/bdsm, penned as A.N. Roquelaure. To start off, I am reading, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty. Um ...:tease: :tongue:

In a re-read mode...

This Side of Paradise, Pope Joan and In Cold Blood. But also a junkie contemporary crime novel (Scarpetta Factor).

Very weird combination... who knows!

:fastdraq:

I am currently reading Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson.

She is a friend of mine and was doing a book tour, and happened to be stopping here, so I went, had her sign a book and figured what the heck, might as well read it. Turns out shes pretty good.

A.Miller
 

continuing with Alice Miller's

"Breaking Down the Wall of Silence
The Liberating Experience of Facing
Painful Truth"


and an older one, "El Alquimista"
by Paulo Coelho


and still "walking" with Merton's
Vol 3 of his "...Solitude Journal..."

Listened to interview with this author today. The book sounds fascinating.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=129827444

Hell to Pay by Simon R Green
and Bone Key a Supernatural book
Just finished Sleeping Beauty by Mercedes Lackey

Highly recommend them all.

Trying to squeeze as much pleasure reading as I can in before classes start next Monday. So I'm trying to finish up:

Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk -- Massimo Pigliucci
American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right -- Markos Moulitsas

And purely for fun:

The Heart of Valor -- Tanya Huff

The American Taliban is intriguing. I am so confused as to whom exactly the "Radical Right" are anymore as I see more and more people spewing that rhetoric now that do not fit what the old "image" of radical right was. I wonder if this can be downloaded? I have a terrible time anymore reading written word for more than a few minutes at a time, so I tend to do audio books.

Do you ever just read anything really naughty like " Natl Enquirer"? LOL

Only do the National Enquirer while in line at grocery pretending not to be annoyed by the little old lady with 30 items in the 10 items or less lane. I always wondered what happened to big foot's baby.

so, I read an article by Markos Moulitsas in Huff Post regarding his American Taliban book. From the snippets/ synopsis he gave it sounds like he is totally up my alley in looking at the bigger picture.

I still haven't found it downloadable yet, though I haven't given up.

Just wanted to give a big thanks to dreadgeek for the title.

Here's the article if anyone is interested:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/markos..._b_693281.html

an old favorite
 

Lullaby, by Chuck Palahniuk.
Also, just finished The Things They Carried, by Tim O' Brien
& am starting 1973: Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and The Birth of Post-Sixties America by Andreas Killen.

~SAB

am starting the Dan Brown series again the davinci code, angels & demons & the lost symbol Wicked reads!

Philosophy in the Present - Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek

I was buying some books for class today, saw it and immediately had to buy it.

Just finished "Helen of Troy" by Margaret George(Love all her books)

Down to the last few pages of "A Walk in the Woods" By Bill Bryson A true and funny story of a man & his friend attempting to walk the AT