[aimeee]

We haven't had a reading thread for a long time. Perhaps its time to start a new one.

I just finished an interesting book called The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead by Heather Pringle. The author is a journalist who spent a year travelling the world and interviewing various experts on mummies. The book recounts interesting findings and also delves a bit into what these attempts to preserve the flesh tell us about ourselves.

In the fiction category, I read not long ago The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger. The intriguing premise of this book is that the protagonist has a genetic anomaly that gave him a condition which causes him to travel backward and forward in time, especially when emotionally upset. He learns eventually to exert some control over this and often visits himself in the past or visits his future wife when she is a little girl. In this way, she gets to know him before she ever meets him in real time. Its a pretty good love story and the time travel adds an extra hook.

So...what have YOU been reading lately?

[Roy Fokker]

DELTA FORCE

The story about the founding of the US premier Special Force organisation - written by the man who founded them. (Re-reading).

WITHOUT REMORSE

Tom Clancy's first intended book in his Ryan verse series. Details the life of Mr. Clark - CIA topman. Spectacular book so far, probably my most favourite after Hunt For Red October. Also probably Clancy's most violent book yet....

[bethin]

Jarhead by Anthony Swoffard, excellent book. The movie doesn't do it justice. Although Jake Gyllenhal did a very good job in the movie. That bod!

A Seperate Peace, I've only read 2 pages so I'm not sure what it's about yet.

Re-reading The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228 by Dick Couch. I love all things military. This one is my favorite. I should have joined. Still kinds of peeves me off that women aren't allowed to be SEALS.

Mostly, I've been reading my psychology book. I'm halfway through and twhen I'm done I can read The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. It's about 700 pages.

If your looking for something to read you MUST read this: Night by Elie Weisel. True account of his time in a concentration camp. Heartbreaking and rejoicing all in one.

[aimeee]

I read A Separate Peace and Night looooooooong ago (high school, don't ask how many years!) and I remember them both as very good.

[Katnip]

Let's see.

I just finished The Fiery Cross By Gabaldon

I am in the middle of something by Anne Rule: Green River Running Red I believe is the title. It's about a Washington state serial killer.

Also reading The Last Templar. I'm not particularly impressed with the writing style in this one. Some very, very awkward sentence structures and weird idioms.

Waiting in the wings is In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. One of the very first murder reconstruction books written.

[talaxandra]

I'm overseas on holidays, so I'm only buying/reading books I'm prepared to leave behind. That means no non-fiction, and a lot of easy reading. I've just finished "How to stay lost" and "Understudy", and am finishing up Jennifer Weiner's new release "Goodnight nobody."

[pickledpepperRN]

I just finished "The Emancipators Wife" by Barbara Hambley

It is a biographical novel about Mary Todd Lincoln.
The focus in on the years leading up to the Civil War and the decades after told from her perspective.
It is aboit 95% fact with some liberties to fill in. Example - She had migraine headaches with nausea and photophobia. The author surmises she probably had a substance abuse problem because all the OTC remedies of the time contained alcohol or laudanum, or both. With her symptome she must have taken them.
That is the biggest liberty with the truth because there is no historical evidence for that.

Anyway it is a good read and the first in a "Patriotic Ladies" series.

[bethin]

Originally Posted by cyberkat

Let's see.
Waiting in the wings is In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. One of the very first murder reconstruction books written.

Let's us know how that one turns out. Is this the book that the movie Capote is about?

Is The Templar set around the time of the Knights of the Round Table?

[Marie_LPN]

Heh.

"The Social Transformation of American Medicine"

[aimeee]

Originally Posted by cyberkat

I just finished The Fiery Cross By Gabaldon

Waiting in the wings is In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. One of the very first murder reconstruction books written.

I loved all the books in the Outlander series!

I recently saw the movie Capote. Well acted and filmed, but not a pleasant thing to watch. They captured the time just right. What a creepy sad little man. Haven't read the book and after seeing the movie I would be interested to read it for the style and comparison, but doubt if I will.