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1 What Is Next on Your Nightstand to Read? 'The Road' Cormac Mccarthy What is next on your nightstand to read? 'The Road' Cormac McCarthy Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Dart China Mieville's Iron Council 'Annie, Between the States' (even though I have about 10 books ready to read!) A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch Bingo ­ Rita Mae Brown Angel of Repose ­ Wallace Stegner Second Glance­­­Jodi Picoult Buddah­­­Karen Armstrong The Good Husband of Zebra Drive­­­Alexander McCall Smith The New Yorker Doug Crandell’s The All American Industrial Motel Wisdom of the Mythtellers by Sean Kane Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, Writers Ask, New Yorker 'Don Quixote' by Cervantes Your 10 to 14 Year Old by Ames, Collected Stories of William Trevor Tim Dorsey, 'The Stingray Shuffle.' The Gospel According to Science Fiction by Gabriel McKee Follies by Ann Beattie Glimmer Train #61 Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx The Chalon Heads by Barry Maitland Cathedral by Raymond Carver ...AND LADIES OF THE CLUB­Helen Santmayer then Nicholas Sparks­DEAR JOHN then THE MATTLOCK PAPERS­Robert Ludlum then...a whole book case full just waiting. I tend to buy ahead­so to speak. A Miracle of Catfish by Larry Brown An American Family by Harry Crews Exploring Consciousness by Rita Carter Patchett, Bel Canto Sailing magazines The Devil in the White City A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler The Tie That Binds & Where You Once Belonged both by Kent Haruf Given Ground by Ann Pancake Not: A Trio by David Huddle A pile of travel books about Spain (going there next month) As I Lay Dying Bill Barich, Laughing in the Hills Elizabeth Bowen, Death of the Heart Empire of the Sun, by JG Ballard. New Scientist magazine Amy Tan 'Saving Fish From Drowning' Lost Christianities by Bart Ehrman Lewis Black's 'Nothing's Sacred' I just started Chuck Palahniuk's latest, Rant. Also toward the top of my to be read stack: Lee Child, Anita Shreve, and James Sallis. Caren Cote, Portland, OR 'Cranberry Smoke' by Michael Hood. Tom Sheehan Saugus, MA 01906 Montaigne's Essays the Bible Me Talk Pretty One Day Stop Walking On Eggshells (Dealing with Borderline Personality Disorder) Emotional Vampires Personal Finance For Dummies Prescription for Nutritional Healing 'Manhattan Transfer' by John Dos Passos Teresa Tumminello Brader New Orleans Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex Re­reading Kurt Vonnegut London Review of Books A Hazard of New Fortunes, Wm Dean Howells Tom Bissel, 'The Father of All Things' Daniel Mason, 'The Piano Tuner' Paula by Isabel Allende A Public Space, Frederick Exley­ A Fan's Notes, Glimmer Train 1 South by Ernest Shackleton The End of Vandalism by Tom Drury; the new issue of McSweeney's; The Interloper by Antoine Wilson. Infidel The All Music Guide to Rock & Roll Music. A monstrosity of a reference book. George B. Miller, Jr. Newington, CT Tennent's At The Center of the Storm The Magic Ring by Baron de la Motte Fouque A Short History of Tractors in the Ukraine ­ current ­ don't like it as much as I was told I would; next, Allawi's book about Iraq If It Bleeds by Bonnie Hearn Hill Artemis Fowl #2 ­ the Arctic Incident The Sun Also Rises – Hemingway Winter Solstice, by R. Pilcher philip larkin's novel 'jill' and 'bandit letters,' poems by sarah messer. Michelle Morgan [email protected] Auburn, Maine Joseph Campbell's _Primitive Mythology_ Their Dogs Came with Them by Helena Maria Viramontes (just read about her work in Poets & Writers, May/June 2007) The Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton. Paula Fox’s The Coldest Winter and Alistair Cooke’s Letter from America 'Three to Get Ready' Janet Evanovich 'Carrie' Stephen King Same Sweet Girls by Cassandra King and The Jessica Lynch Story by Rick Braggs, The Sun Magazine Solo Faces ­ James Salter Walking the Dead Diamond River ­ Edward Hoagland A Bit On the Side ­ William Trevor Short Stories of John Cheever This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald Patricia Henley’s Hummingbird House Mothers and Sons by Colm Toibin Thought and Language LevVygotsky, Three Novels Samuel Beckett, Orhan Pamuk Istanbul That I Am by Nisargadatta Maharaj, The Indians by Sudhir Kakar, Everyman collection of Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius. Sula by Toni Morrison Edward Abbey, 'Desert Solitaire' STILLNESS by Courtney Angela Brkic Room for Doubt by Wendy Lesser and The Tiny One by Eliza Minot The Secret Garden (for some reason I'm re­reading a lot of my childhood favourites) Greek Mythology and Religion The Road by Cormac McCarthy Brick Lane, Monica Ali Savage Beauty, Nancy Mitford View from Castle Rock, Alice Munro Moral Disorder, Margaret Atwood All Saints ­ Liam Callanan No Country for an Old Man ­ Cormac McCarthy Lost Horizon ­ James Hilton (again) Zorro ­ Isabel Allende The Blog of War I am halfway through The Final Solution by Michael Chabon; Next on my list is L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy ­Desiree Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovshy Twilight of the Superheroes, Debra Isenberg The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield Comes a Horseman by Robert Luparulo Alibi Man by Tami Hoag the inquisitor A novel called 'March' which takes up the father's story from Little Women. The Orientalist Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion Varieties of Disturbance by Lydia Davis, spring issue of Glimmer Train 2 Final Exam by Pauline Chen I need to read Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre' again and perhaps take yet another look at 'War and Peace'. With that book I love the way everything unfolds behind the story of Natasha and Pierre. It isn't so very different with Yuri and Lara in 'Doctor Zhivago'. Whatever horrors come to pass in life, the authors seem to have said, are to be set against that which puts everything into perspective, human love. Then there's William Boyd's new novel, 'Restless', Kazuo Ishiguro's 'Never Let Me Go', 'First Love and Other Novellas', by Samuel Beckett, and something I know absolutely nothing about, the recommendation of a friend, 'The Courage Consort', by Michel Faber. Patrick Noakes, London, England, [email protected] Middle Age­ Joyce Carol Oates Negotiating with the Dead Margaret Atwood Four Spirits by Sena Jeter Naslund, Kim Edwards' The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina, Kafka's The Castle; and Anthony Rashid's Night Draws Near. The Book of Names by Jill Gregory & Karen Tintori The Children of Hurin I buy most of my books at Goodwill and I have a couple of 'new' ones: The Financially Confident Woman, and Ending the Homework Hassle. I buy nonfiction/self­help books with the best intentions, but usually wind up just skimming them. Several literary mags and poetry mags Page Seventeen, Swimming in Silk, Eucalyptus (again), The Nature of Reality The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary & Sewing Circle by Lois Battle Bouncing Off the Moon by David Gerrold The Roald Dahl Omnibus War and Peace. I joke.... Body Surfing by Anita Shreve and The Silence of the North by Olive Fredrickson Lindsay Davis, 'One Virgin Too Many' Gillian Bradshaw, 'The Bear­Keeper's Daughter' Maria Seoane, 'Argentina' And, as soon as it's out ­ Harry Potter and the Somethings of Doom. (I think. Anyway ­ the last HP). Oswald Chambers: Abandoned To God by David McCasland William T. Vollman’s Europe Central, Memoir of a Bookie’s Son by Sidney Offit Time magazine Next Year in Cuba by Gustavo Perez Firmat Burning Down the House by Charles Baxter, Glimmer Train’s Building Blocks book Reading like a Writer­­Francine Prose Loosing My Espanish by H. G. Carrillo, Writers Ask Issue 35 The Ministry Of Special Cases, by Nathan Englander. Also some book on Verdi I'm reading for research. Randall Jarrell's Pictures from an Institution Any Bitter Thing by Monica Wood Catch 22 by Joseph Heller William Gaddis's 'Agape Agape' and Michael Chabon's 'The Final Solution.' (Heard Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road' is incredible, so have to get to that sooner rather than later.) The Complete Works of Hans Christian Anderson Glimmer Train #62, Playboy's June issue The Bible The Stranger (Camus) Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck) I am between semesters, so will be browsing Amazon or Borders soon. Five books are being read/re­read concurrently, so it's hard to talk about 'next': A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka; A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby; Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night­Time, Mark Haddon; Experience, Martin Amis. Wuthering Heights! (I'm going to visit Haworth presently) Also, The High Desert Review and The Missouri Review Currently, an audiobook of Sherlock Holmes, the short stories read by Ben Kingsley. Everything is Illuminated, and some fantasy novels my brother gave me (can't remember their names right now). 3 The Road, C. McCarthy (underway) Rock Springs, Richard Ford The Underworld, Don DeLillo Anna Karenina, Tolstoy Glass House, Memoir Bible Suttree by Cormac McCarthy The Blind Assassin, Writing Alone and with Others, Drinking A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley The Plague by Albert Camus Dog Years by M Doty and Grace Eventually by A Lamott My name is MJ Werthman White, of Xenia OH, email: [email protected] Skin, by Kellie Wells Writer’s London (because I'm going there in a couple of weeks) Lucky CIA chief George Tenet's book, At the Center of the Storm Anna Karenina Catch­22 bukowski 'Everything is Illuminated' and 'Rant' (new Chuck Palahniuk) 'Pocketful of names' Roy Porter ­ Flesh in the Age of Reason 'The Kite Runner' The Abs Diet, The Secret Coyote Blue Wicked Biography of Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee The Writer (magazine), A View From the Loft (Loft Literary Center publication) and Kaleidoscope (an art related book by the publisher of Art­i­tude Magazine) The Piano Tuner Not sure.
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