Quote from: Zythyra on August 21, 2011, 12:08:04 PM
Am now reading Transgender History by Susan Stryker.

I loved that book. My wife got me a copy a few years ago for my birthday.

Right now, I'm reading Sexy by Joyce Carol Oates.

Boss GT10 owner's manual.

Quote from: 8888 on August 23, 2011, 12:40:42 PM
Boss GT10 owner's manual.

Like a boss. 

I'm reading Rage: A Love Story by Julie Anne Peters.

Going on a Grub Street rampage.

Reading one about 'The Grub Street Journal' - which was actually more at ripping it out of Grub Street. Then I'm reading 'Grub Street - Stripped Bare' which reprints lots of rare Grub Street writings. Then on to 'Grub Street - Stories of a Subculture' which seems to be the closest thing to a definitive history. Then 'The women of Grub Street' which is self explanatory and then 'Ned Ward, of Grub Street' about Ned Ward who wrote 'The London Spy' - then I'll read 'The London Spy'.

By then, I think I'll have read everything published in book form about Grubstreet for the last 100 years - and this little obsession will leave me alone.

I keep switching between Swann's Way by Marcel Proust and re-reading Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse, which makes for an interesting contrast of style and pacing.

Characters & Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card. A boring subject brought to life by a master.

Quote from: nogoodnik on August 26, 2011, 06:00:14 PM
I keep switching between Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

You leave me no choice...

Quote from: Cindi Jones on August 26, 2011, 06:03:12 PM
Characters & Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card. A boring subject brought to life by a master.

I've read that, in the 'How to write a million' set.

Also, to nogoodnik - ditch the airy froggy git and stick with The Master. 

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

Quote from: Pica Pica on August 26, 2011, 07:33:20 PM
Also, to nogoodnik - ditch the airy froggy git and stick with The Master.

Or I could read whatever books I want. Though I'm serious when I say they work well in contrast with each other. Both writers have very strong styles that I enjoy but get tired of after a while. I know, getting tired of Wodehouse, heresy! But there's only so much Bertie Wooster I can handle in one sitting. I actually prefer the Psmith books. Haven't got around to reading many of his others.

I just finished my odyssey with Stephen King's The Stand (unabridged version). I'm prepping for another epic, Dan Simmons' Ilium. Go Moravecs!

Boyfriends with Girlfriends by Alex Sanchez

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami.

Forever by Judy Blume

Quote from: nogoodnik on August 26, 2011, 06:00:14 PM
I keep switching between Swann's Way by Marcel Proust and re-reading Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse, which makes for an interesting contrast of style and pacing.

Ooooh, Right Ho, Jeeves is one of my favourites!  I just finished 'Thank You, Jeeves' - I'm reading all the Jeeves saga in chronological order, lol.  I have the 'World of Jeeves' compendium, which is brilliant, because it puts all the short stories in chronological order - I ate them up!  I have 'Ring for Jeeves' on my night table, though, tempting me to skip ahead...

I adore how 'Thank You, Jeeves' is such a love story!  They're split up and you spend the whole book hoping they'll get back together, lol!  The best bit of all is when Bertie encounters Jeeves at Chuffy's house and is so excited to see him again that he asks Jeeves if he can play him 'What Is This Thing Called Love?' on the banjolele.  It's just ripping, lol.

I'm partway through 'Naked Lunch' (have been for months), have just started to re-read 'The Portrait of the Artist' and also just started Hugh Laurie's 'The Gun Seller' - very funny, so far.

I'm so promiscuous, when it comes to reading, lol.  I really should commit.   

Quote from: Clive on September 15, 2011, 05:00:58 PM
I adore how 'Thank You, Jeeves' is such a love story!  They're split up and you spend the whole book hoping they'll get back together, lol!  The best bit of all is when Bertie encounters Jeeves at Chuffy's house and is so excited to see him again that he asks Jeeves if he can play him 'What Is This Thing Called Love?' on the banjolele.  It's just ripping, lol.

Oh, yes, Thank You, Jeeves is excellent! I love it, I should really re-read it again sometime.

Reading them in chronological order sounds like a great idea. I should try that sometime... because I've read many of the books but not all of them, and sometimes I forget which ones I've read and try and read a "new" one and it turns out I've already read it. But usually by that time I'm about halfway through, since they're so easy to read, and because some bits of plot are common across various Jeeves stories... and so then I end up just re-reading the whole thing anyway.

I get what you mean about promiscuous reading, too. Right now I'm actually between books, but I've been trying to read/re-read all the Miss Marple novels in chronological order, and I want to re-read the first Raffles book, and I'm thinking about heading to the library later to get out some books about the history of domestic service that I flipped through earlier in the week, and I have a pile of assorted books here that I haven't read but keep picking up and reading bits of..... ack! Too many books! Sometimes I think it would be more convenient to be an alien with five heads and ten arms, so I could read multiple books at once. It's hard to stick with just one, sometimes.

"All that is gone" - Pramoedya Ananta Toer

M or F by Lisa Papademetriou and Chris Tebbetts

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Earthquake Weather - third in a trilogy by Tim Powers, a metamythical treat! (I think he's a great writer - though I suspect he has a problem with catholic guilt, and a smidge of homophobia too...)