March. St Patricks Day is on it's way and I am reading...

Praise of Motherhood by Phil Jourdan

The Hottest State by Ethan Hawke

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body - Neil Shubin

Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
I'm about half way through.

I started reading Infinite Jest.

Celebrating World Book Day with the first pages of House of Leaves.

I just finished a little novella called Disquiet that was very boring, but creepy. I think the title was a lie.

I think I owe it to my childhood to read Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy. Loved that original game on PC. I hear it's a top rated thriller, too.

White Jazz (James Ellroy)

100 pages into The Raising by Laura Kasischke and it's really good.

So Derek are you as excited as I am for this new Stephen King Shining Sequel?

I just heard about it the other day. when is it due out?

I'm not sure.

I saw Stephen King on some local cable channel or something some months ago and he gave a reading from it. Way different than The Shining, but very intriguing.

Killer In Drag by Ed Wood Jr.

Hard-boiled Grade-D pulp noir with the word angora appearing at least once every page.

This time Glen/Glenda is a hitman/woman for hire!

Kinda fun.

Transubstantiate. Loving it so far.

I am reading Diary, which I never read before, and remembering why I joined up here in the first place.

I found a boarding pass inside it:

UNTITED

KUNDE/CHERYLDMRS

FEB 3
FROM PORTLAND ORE
TO WASH/DULLES

GATE E5
BOARDS AT 7:30 AM
DEPARTS AT 8:00 AM

SEAT 22C

I'm using is as a bookmark.

Praise of Motherhood by Phil Jourdan.

YES! How do you like it so far?

I finished and loved it.

I'll PM you something in a bit.

I'm finishing off The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland. It's okish. Probably one of his weaker novels but I still like his voice.

Started Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende.

I'm halfway through a thrashy thriller called The Crucifix Killer by Chris Carter.

I'm reading a compilation of poems by Verner von Heidenstam. A lot of it feels pretty outdated, but it has its moments.

Guilty by Ferdinand Von Shirach. It's great. Almost as good as his first book Crime.

I've been talked in to reading Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay. I really like the show but have avoided the books. According to a friend, who is also a fan of the show, the books are better. They usually are but it's not always great reading the book when you've already seen the show/movie.

The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan.

Sorry by Zoran Drvenkar.

My Billion Dollar Contract: Memoir of a former Scientologist by Nancy Many

Sounds mental. I've added it to my wish list.

Haha, that's what I thought! I'm on page 32 and it is really intense.

But I tried to find this and amazon turned up no results...

Reason being (and really amazon could have done a better job) the book's title is My Billion Year Contract.

edit - the first few chapters are available on amazon. (Look Inside!) This book is crazy! Definitely going in my next order.

I've had Inside Scientology by Janet Reitman on my wishlist forever. I just always order something else.

The whole idea of cults always fascinates me. How one entity can get so many people to do something that is so obviously dumb from the outside looking in. But from the inside looking out, you think the opposite. You think you're doing the most important thing in the world.

Meh, I hate you. (It was early!)

*kicks empty Coke can off the curb*

I've been really interested in it since one of my colleagues let on that her family have been members since the 70s. She was obsessed with Star Trek and really temperamental about everything. Funnily enough, she never tried to convert any of us. She obviously thought we were lost causes!

I'm reading a book I bought by mistake off the Kindle Store and I'm absolutely loving it. I was pretty anxious and wanted it to be good, but it looks great so far. It's The Dead Virgins by Kevin Ashman.

Goodreads blurb: "A young girl is found crucified. A man is bludgeoned to death outside a small English library, and the Mother Superior of a secretive convent is burnt alive in a cemetery. India Sommers, a young and attractive librarian with a passion for history, joins forces with intelligence officer, Brandon Walker, investigating the disappearance of a very special young girl. It soon becomes apparent that a string of strange murders across Southern England, and an ancient artefact missing for thousands of years may hold the key to her whereabouts.
The clues stretch back through time to before the great flood, and, as the facts are uncovered, and the full horror and mind blowing truth of what they have discovered becomes clear, they become involved in a frantic race against time in a horrific and shocking finale."

I just bought and am about to start Room by Emma Donoghue.

Noo, Sarah, please don't read that now. It will get you too emotional about the baby.

Oh god, really?

I've read a few pages, does it get pretty intense?

Well, the mere idea of being held prisoner with her kid should be quite intense. I'm not sure how you'd take it. Even I cried at that book, dammit.

I read The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson and recommend it to everyone here! It was weird, Kim Jong Il is a character in it, it was strange reading something set in North Korea because it's so mysterious. Really fascinating, a very different story that you can't tell what's going to happen next but it's so good you just go with it. There's some pretty disturbing stuff in there and some really sad truths about North Korea and the way People have to live. I thought it was wonderful, READ IT!

Next it's going to be Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt. Yays!

Or started a zombie novel called Juggernaut by Adam Baker.

Today I ordered My Billion Year Contract based on Hattie and her being full of awesomeness.

Amy!!!! Brothers Sisters is on must read pile. I loved his first novel Ablutions.

I have The Brothers Sisters to read as well.

I'm just over half way through, I love it. Although it's a terrible subject, I think becasue it's written from the boy's perspective it's not so bad. But then I still have the rest of the book to read.

Well you're pretty much over the worst. I loved it, too, but it tends to get quite sad.

Finished My Father's House, which was really good. Touching, sad, real.

Started The Deadheart Shelters by Forrest Armstrong last night.

I'm hoping this is a quick read so I can get into These Dreams of You for LitReactor's book club. I just couldn't just into an Erickson book after reading My Father's House.

The Straw Men by Michael Marshall.

I'm reading How It Ended by Jay McInerney. It's not bad. I'm not a huge short story fan.

I Am Second.

i dunno boutchall but I'm reading everything I can get my grubby lil eyes on! InI

I loved The Dead Virgins by David Ashman. Currently about halfway through House of Leaves.

Progress: book 12/15 of The Arabian Nights, book 4/7 of Remembrance of Things Past.

You're such a great reader. I'm in awe. I started the year strong, but I've stalled. I'm gonna try and get my reading eyes back on.