Gonna enjoy it then am I?

You should, then pair it (books can be like wine and cheese events) with Henry Fielding's Tom Jones.

read that in december

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Call Waiting by R.L. Stine

The Wandering Taoist by Deng Ming-Dao.  It's the biography of a Chinese Taoist Master, following him from his childhood in a Chinese monastery in the 1930's to the present day U.S.  So far an interesting read.

I tend to work on a lot of books at once.

School textbooks:
Women, Art and Society by Whitney Chadwick
Gardner's Art Through The Ages by Fred S. Kleiner, volumes I and II

Personal reading:
Behind The Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema by Jasper Sharp
Industrial Society And Its Future by Theodore Kaczynski

Currently set down/stalled:
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Information Age: Economy, Society And Culture Vol. II: The Power of Identity by Manuel Castells

Just finished  Steig Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Went straight to my favourite book store and bought the next. The Girl who played with Fire. Even go $10 off from my loyalty card

Cindy

Gravel Queen by Tea Benduhn

Fanny Hill gave me some interesting new phrases and words  (anyone for 'engine of love assaults?' or 'laboratory of love?')- on the rambling glory of 'Tristram Shandy' now.

Just started reading The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, by John M. Barry

Richard North Patterson's latest, The Spire:  http://www.amazon.com/Spire-Novel-Richard-North-Patterson/dp/0805087737/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269632431&sr=8-1

~L~

Beloved: Toni Morrison

I am working my way through Patricia Briggs' book "Iron Kissed" and I am also working my way through "The Gay Science" by Friedrich Nietzsche even though I find it a bit more 'dry' than "Beyond Good and Evil"

I also just read chapter 30 of "Sasameki Koto" by Ikeda Takashi I cannot wait for Volume 6!

Anything by Nietzsche is more dry than toast or stuffing or sand in the Sahara.  Which is not to detract from what he is saying.  He could have cared less about people who only read things they find 'interesting'.

I recall that Richard Rorty said in an interview that philosophy attracts a certain kind of people who crave answers. Thus, people get into philosophy out of need or craving, not because they just find it interesting or amusing. This certainly squares with my own experience, although I've found that philosophical reading can often serve for me as a high-minded way of obsessively doubting myself.

Quote from: tekla on March 27, 2010, 01:06:01 AM
Anything by Nietzsche is more dry than toast or stuffing or sand in the Sahara.  Which is not to detract from what he is saying.  He could have cared less about people who only read things they find 'interesting'.

I find nietzsche to be just bad poetry, but then I was never very tolerant of continental philosophy.

I just started MOAB is my Washpot by Stephen Fry.