What are you currently reading?, . . . besides this thread

[frida_wolf]

Currently reading Changes.

Yay for new Dresden Files book.

[Lupinfan80]

I just finished "American Fuji" by Sara Backer. I really, really enjoyed it. It's about 2 Americans in Japan. One is an English Professor who lost her job at the University and never quite got a straight answer on why, now she sells "fantasy funerals" to the wealthy Japanese. The other is a man who's son was an exchange student who died and there was a mystery surrounding it. Circumstances bring them together and they both explore feelings of isolation and alienation, each for their own reasons. I'm not a literature expert, but I thought it was a great, moving story with interesting characters and great insight into the aspects of Japanese culture that you don't really see in Hollywood films or other romanticized movies and books. The author herself is an English professor in Japan and this is the only book she's ever written. She gives great insights from her own experience as an American (or even just as a white foreigner) in Japan.

[Cat_on_my_head]

I am really loving the Hunger Games books right now. I just finished the second one and can't wait for the third and final installment.

[Godric]

Been tearing trough the tomes recently. In the last week I've wrapped up Robert Montgomery Bird's wonderful Sheppard Lee, a fascinating, hilarious book, if somewhat troublesome in aspects for a modern reader; Nothing but the Night by John Williams, an inauspicious debut by America's most underrated novelist of the past century, but nonetheless a good read, and Ken Bruen's The Devil, the latest in a series of crime novels set in my native Galway. Now on Carole Coleman's Allelulia America, an Irish journalist's account of her escapades through Red America after GWB's 2004 victory. So far so good.

[Godric]

Wow, I have gotten through them of late. F.R. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh, great book, very interesting. Letty Fox: Her Luck, by Christina Stead, excellently written, and Taking the Tiss, the autobiography of Matt Le Tissier, one of the most gifted footballers in living memory. Absolutely hilarious.

Not sure what to start now, possibly Goodfella's , the memoir the movie is based on. Its been in my to read pile for ages...

[Hellebora]

hunger games is amazing - will be interesting to see what they do with the fils. am reading wise mans fear at the moment - pat rothfuss is a genius

[Cat_on_my_head]

I ended up loving Hunger Games until the last book. It irked me, for several reasons, though the biggest being that I think overall there wasn't a very strong character arc for Katniss. How did she change, exactly? I get that may have been the point, but I still didn't like it.

The movies will hopefully be interesting. It will be interesting to see what they do/don't do for the 3rd book. I think there is actually an opportunity to improve upon it a little. I'm looking forward to the second movie--I loved the arena for the 2nd book.