Books: what are you reading right now?

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Any love for P.D. James? Ruth Rendell? Dorothy Sayers?

Finished "Bastard out of Carolina" by Dorothy Allison. This book is a tear jerker, not a book to be read while waiting in airport.

Going to read "Nellie Taft" The unconventional First Lady of the ragtime era.

The cover of the book speaks to me.

www.harpercollins.com/browseinside/index.aspx? isbn13=9780060513832

Creepy doesn't even begin to cover it.

The Sheltering Sky is the $1.99 daily deal today on Kindle.

I saw the movie. All I could think through the whole thing was, "My god, these people take themselves WAY too seriously!!" The most self-indulgent characters that I can recall.

I guess that means you won't be downloading the book?

just went on to see...for me, it's $11.68....I only get SOME of the deals!

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I agree. I've only read a few of the Wexford series and none of them grabbed me. What I love are the books she writes as Barbara Vine and the stand alone Rendell novels, although I have to admit that all of her work has gone downhill in the last 5 years or so.

Did you read the Pride and Prejudice murder mystery by P.D. James? What was she thinking???

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Just finished

Michael Chabon: The Final Solution

Lovely little novel!

Correct.

Though, cryptic, I did retain a tidbit of wisdom from that movie that's stuck with me all these years: When Debra Winger's character states that even though we're all fascinated by our own dreams, it's boring to hear about other people's dreams.

I instantly recognized this as truth, and to this day refrain (for the most part) from talking about my dreams.

I can see how a movie based on the book would come out all pretentious and angsty, but portions of the book read like poetry, especially the descriptions of the desert.

This is what I mean:

“A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.”
-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

oh, cryptic, I used to eat that sort of poetico-shmetico stuff up with a spoon when I was young!

Now I'm so cynical.

I'm sorry I started reading it, Dulce. The whole suffering from typhoid out in the middle of nowhere thing is giving me an anxiety attack. I may not even finish it.

May not finish the book. Cryptic it must be really bad.

I am having a hard time turning the pages of Nellie Taft. Still plugging along. The book is well written, however politics isn't my thing.

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I've forgotten much of the plot, I just remember it was a downer, but the movie was beautifully shot.

Yeah Finished "Nellie Taft" learned a lot about our traveling Nellie.

Now reading The Natural Disorder of Things. by Andrea Canobbio.
A Thriller.

A downer is putting it mildly. The husband croaked and the wife went batshit crazy.

Well, at least you did not (hopefully) see John Malkovich as the husband in the theatre of your mind.

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