Nobody's ever had any idea what's going on in Gravity's Rainbow.  That's why everybody loves it.  Though I kinda like V more. 

I'm reading Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide ~ Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Just finished Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist.

Overall I liked it, although I found most of the scenes with the alcoholics (that's how he describes them) rather tedious, and I would have liked to have learned more about Eli's History.  For example, who gave him/her the egg?  What made him/her pick out the pedophile to be his/her protector, how has s/he survived the past couple hundred years, etc.

Finally got to the end of Tristram Shandy - extremely enjoyable, and I fell in love with Uncle Toby, but the fact it doesn't have a forward moving story and is built on the art of the digression, really made it quite a difficult book also.

Nope, onwards and sidewards in true Shandean style, Vicar of Wakefield now - that Goldsmith better make me cry or I won't be happy

The Bone Thief by Jefferson Bass

Just finished reading "Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami for the second time. It is a thoroughly brilliant book. It also includes a FTM character, though I won't spoil whom it is in case any of you plan to read the book.

The London Journal of Boswell 1762-3

otherwise known as - Mr Toady shags supreme.

"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."

No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy

The Paper Grail by James P. Blaylock

So far it's wonderfully surreal.

Edit:  Started out great, but got a little tiresome after that.  I've only made it about halfway through, so we'll see if it picks up again.

Hey, Pica Pica, will you marry me?
You have such good taste in books.
Not enough people appreciate rap-master Sammy J.
Um, can I borrow your copy of Trivia?
I can't find one here.

Ok, to get into the spirit of this thread, I just finished "How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York" (1890)

Now I'm picking out some pieces from the complete works of Kurt Tucholsky.

Severed - Simon Kernick

I've set myself an C18th reading list, and I'm using this thread to check on how I'm doing.

My Trivia is in a larger book on travelling C18th London - but the poem is here http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/skilton/poetry/gay01a.html

Read 'Polly' the Beggar's Opera sequel on the weekend, it's not as good, it's a sequel.

How do you pick stuff in a complete work? With Sam Johnson for example, I read the big prefaces first, then the idlers and ramblers I can get hold of - or do you flit interesting looking thing to interesting looking thing?

Quote from: Pica Pica on May 24, 2010, 01:48:50 PM
How do you pick stuff in a complete work?

That's always a good question. I like reading the earliest stuff to get perspective.
Depending on the situation, I'll then either pick out the interesting bits or plow through it all.

I've read everything from George Orwell. His humanity comes out best in the "As I Please" columns.

Oh, I didn't realize that "Trivia" was so short.

I just finished Dare Truth or Promise by Paula Boock, and now I'm starting What We Eat When We Eat Alone by Deborah Madison and Patrick McFarlin.

Decent into chaos
Three cups of tea

Carrying on th Boswell theme with his 'Life of Johnson'.

A mix of fiction, non-fiction and magazines.
Sharon Shinn's fantasy novel " The Thirteenth House", "Painting Landscapes with Atmosphere", Australian Motorcycle News and Australian Road Rider.

Reading "Advanced Calculus" by R. Creighton Buck and struggling through "The Bourne Supremacy" by Robert Ludlum...Or is it the other way around?

They're both difficult reads. I'm sad to say "Advanced Calculus" is slightly more interesting at the moment.

I just finished The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chobsky, and that was a great read.

Now, I'm reading Ironman by Chris Crutcher and The Pleasures of Cooking for One by Judith Jones.

BTW, is there any way to change this thread's incorrect use of the possessive pronoun "your" to the pronoun-verb contraction "you're?"