What are you currently reading?

reading Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson, and just finished Firefight, by the same author.

while I'm in school, I tend to read more fiction in my spare time, and then read a bunch of non-fiction as soon as school is over.

 

Just finished Dark Lightening...the fourth book of the series....going through space/time at 78% the speed of light to New Sun....with squeezer technology....but then faster!

 

for school right now I am reading Theories of Development: Contentions, Arguments, Alternatives, by Richard Peet and Elaine Hartwick. Very heavy on theory...

 

Not including anything I read for school.

I just started reading " Guidebook to Murder". Too early to give an opinion about it.

A lot of the things I read lately are cheap books I can get on sale through ibooks. Some turn out to be good, others shit.

 

I recently read A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett. Really interesting book about a woman who was captured by militants in Somalia and held for ransom.

 

Self Compassion by Kristin Neff

 

Just started, Virus of the Mind,the New Science of Meme by Richard Brodie.

 

I've spent the last several days completely lost in "The Way The Crow Flies" by Ann-Marie Macdonald. I highly recommend it.

 

Just finished The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

Last night I started Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story by Robin Doolittle (one of the reporters who first broke the crack-smoking story).

 

"The Girl On The Train" by Paula Hawkins.

 

I'm reading Gone With the Wind for the first time and was told it was a really good book.

 

Just picked it up and hoping to start it this weekend.
The Witches by Stacy Schiff.

 

Hello,

I just started The Idle Traveller written by Dan Kieran:



I can't say much about it yet, but so far it seems to be a good read. It's about slowing down your travels and understand travel not as beeing at a certain place, but as the way, the process, to get to that place.

Regards
Gyro

 

Star wars aftermath. Pacing myself so i finish just before i see the new movie.

 

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Wow, this sounds fascinating!

 

Hello,

I'm halfway through now. The author doesn't like nowadays travel guides, that's for sure. But he likes the classical Baeder guide from 100 years ago. He suggests the old Baeder guide if you want to travel Great Britain. The reason is that modern guides tell you how to get fast to your destination, what places you have to see there etc. And you feel bad if you don't check every entry on that list. The old guide tells you, well, how to travel. They suggest three or four different ways to your location, they tell you what to carry on your journey (a few flanell shirts, extra socks, a rain coat (Old Blighty!), toiletry and a lightweight bag, no rucksack), so that you are flexible and comfortable on your journey.

The author doesn't use aeroplanes, he uses trains to get from here to there. There is this story of him and his familly traveling from the UK across Europe by train. At a stop in Budapest/Hungary he visits a public bathhouse with his little kid. It is winter, it's alway winter in stories about Eastern Europe, isn't it. He wanders around, people yell at him, but he doesn't understand the local language. He visits the outside pool, his kid gets blue lips, more yelling. He wants to get out of the bathhouse, but there are no towels, so he uses his shirt to towel his blue lipped kid. When he finally gets out there is more yelling and he gets some money back. He doesn't understand what that means, but it seems like he has some talent for offending the locals .

Regards
Gyro

 

I like the sound of that

 

Just started to read "the Onion Eaters " By JP Donleavy for the Umpteenth time

 

Hello,

hm, reminds me that I could re-read the Confessions of an Opium Eater next.

Regards
Gyro