What Are You Reading? The November Edition

[Zomby Woof]

"The Rise And Fall Of Ancient Greece" by Nigel Rodgers. It is beautifully illustrated, including maps, photos, and battle plans. The crisply written text and detailed content is a good way for the well-acquainted to dust off their brains and refresh their knowledge of Ancient Greece, and a fantastic introduction for beginners. Other than reading some new translations of Homer's epics, I haven't tackled anything related to Ancient Greece since college nearly 20 years ago, when I read Thucydides. It's good to dive back into it.

[Petrushka]

1. The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost --- Edited by Robert Faggen --- (eom)

[pokerfan]

3. speaking of the Cambridge Companion series...

On my to-be-read list is the Cambridge Companion to Darwin. The Cambridge Companion series is awesome. For more in a similar vein, might I recommend Oxford's http://referencebooks.suite101.com/article.cfm/very_short_introduction_books">Very Short Introductions. I may have only been able to afford a state college education but I can read their books.

[Petrushka]

4. Bookmarking the Oxford's . . . thank you! Now, how'd ya like a FREE open course at Yale?

http://oyc.yale.edu/

[pokerfan]

9. Well, Yale isn't exaclty Cambridge or Oxford

;hide:

My state uni edumacation in engineering served its purpose I suppose and while I've always held the humanities in the highest regard the harsh reality is that they don't necessarily put food on the table.

So for me, philosophy and the classics remain an avid avocation. But don't think for a minute that I don't hesitate to bring them up in job interviews.

Employers weem to want "well rounded" individuals, whatever that means. All I know is that I have always held a deep-seated yearning for knowledge, no matter how arcane. I simply want to know everything. No subject is too obscure.

[pokerfan]

2. mine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_the_Old_Breed">With the Old Breed by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Sledge">Eugene Sledge. I figured I might as well prep for HBO's The Pacific. I had to put it down for a few days as it was extremely graphic and brutal which made it hard plowing.

[XemaSab]

5. Just finished "The Wind in the Willows"

Never read it before. :)

[seemunkee]

13. If you liked it try The Willows in Winter

It's a sequel that I think was very well done.
I love Wind in the Willows, it makes me happy and I absolutely love Shepards illustrations.
“There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” - Ratty

[enigmatic]

6. "Curling Today"- Ken Watson

The original bible of Curling:



http://www.halloffame.mb.ca/honoured/1980/kwatson.htm

[Joe the Liberal]

7. Nothing at the moment. n/t

[SeattleGirl]

8. "Scarpetta" by Patricia Cornwell

I'm in a fiction mode right now, though I do have two non-fiction books awaiting me when I finish this one.

[Chan790]

10. A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (In Search of Lost Time) by Marcel Proust.

Parte Une: Du Cote de Chez Swann (Swann's Way), 2003 translation by Lydia Davis.

It's a vastly superior translation to the two updates to the 1934 translation by Scott Moncrieff. Beyond that, I'll let M. Proust's work stand on it's own...it is arguably the greatest novel of the 20th c., inarguably the longest at just under 3,000 pages.

[Heidi]

11. "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen.

http://www.saragruen.com/water.html

[Lethe]

12. Several things:

The Complete Short Stories of Somerset Maugham Volume 1. (his short stories are better than his novels)
Just finished Richard III.
Halfway through the Bhagavadgita.
Digital Rights Management: A librarian's guide to technology and practise.
Short stories of Guy de Maupassant.
Cemetery Dance current issue.
Grave Tales current issue.

That's it for this week.

[seemunkee]

14. Getting through my magazines

Make, 2600, Outside, Gourmet
Haven't decided what to read next.

[MissHoneychurch]

15. About to finish "Fools Crow" by James Welch

http://www.amazon.com/Fools-Crow-Contemporary-American-Fiction/dp/0140089373/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257432189&sr=8-1

Then I will start the new mystery novel by Jo Nesbo "The Snowman"

[jonnyblitz]

16. currently i am reading "The Good Soldiers": by David Finkel and

on deck is "Bury Me Standing, The Gypsies and Their Journey" by Isabel Fonseca, and "Bright-sided, How Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America" by Barbara Ehrenreich.

:hi:

[azmouse]

17. Nixonland by Rick Perlstein

Just started it last night. Looks pretty good.

[mitchum]

18. Read that one last summer

it is very good

[mitchum]

19. Just started Ellroy's Blood's a Rover

[jonnyblitz]

20. my sister just read that and told me I would like it. nt

[mitchum]

23. It is quite good...and a return to form for Ellroy

I've been an Ellroy buff since his first novel, but his previous novel, The Cold Six Thousand was just disappointing.
That is not the case, so far, with the new one.

[jonnyblitz]

24. i haven't read anything by him yet ONLY because I tend to

read non-fiction but I am aware of him, his story and his noir style.

[bikebloke]

21. The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson

Good popcorn read.

[applegrove]

22. I'm about to read "Teacher Man" by Frank McCourt. I hear it is good.

[Bertha Venation]

25. A biography of Margaret "The Unsinkable Molly" Brown. n/t

[fishwax]

26. Right now I'm starting Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus