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I'm currently reading THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie.
I just finished GOD IS NOT GREAT by Christopher Hitchens.
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I just bought a signed copy of the new Ira Glass book, "New Kings of Nonfiction". I haven't actually opened it yet, but I will in a week or so. I wanted to see who Ira thinks is up and coming, also, sales of the book benefit the 826 organization--Ira also supports the org here in Chicago...if you also want a signed copy, go to 826chi.org. The last two books I've only half-read, (I'm a half-reader...I read half then start something new...lol...maybe I have A.D.D)...anyway, were Blink by Malcolm Gladwell and Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl-A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship by Sherry Argov. They are both pretty cool field guides to living a victimless life i.e., not being a victim in your own thinking.
i just finished "Random Family" by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, who spent a *decade* hanging out with, befriending, and chronicling the intricate and completely chaotic lives of some young people growing up in a Bronx ghetto. Very, very amazing. I mean...AMAZING.
More good things: The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Diaz), Free Culture (Lawrence Lessig), The Road (Cormac McCarthy).
looking for something new now so it's nice to read these comments.
I just finished Alice Walker's "Now Is The Time To Open Your Heart." I wasn't that happy with it. I'm a huge fan of her work, and was not very impressed with this one. It felt more like something she needed to to for herself or others. Not the great story I'm used to from her.
I just started "The Rise Of The Creative Class" by Richard Florida, an economist who tells us how and why the creative class is currently the dominating class in the world. A dense read for bedtime, but without the luxury of too much free time I need to do a serious read after a pleasure read.
Speaking of dense reads ... Oprah's most recent recommendation for her book club was Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Love In The Time Of Cholera." He's the Nobel prize winning COLOMBIAN writer. Yeh, for us! Phenomenal writer. I've never seen a person use the Spanish language the way this man does.
I'm reading "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen, which I bought totally because I loved the cover. Now I'm completely engrossed in it and have (twice! this week) missed my train stops because I haven't been paying attention. I just finished "Middlesex" by Eugenides last week, which I loved, and "Eat Pray Love" before that, by Elizabeth Gilbert. ALSO I would highly reccomend "No one belongs here more than you", some crazy-ass short stories by performance artist/writer/director Miranda July.
I'm currently reading "The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold" by Frank T. Kryza. I'm going to West Africa for six weeks in January, so I wanted to learn a little more about where I'll be traveling.
The best book that I've read this year is "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak. It's a wonderful coming-of-age story about a young girl living with her foster parents in Germany during WWII. It involves a passion for words, an accordion with a history, a young boy who wants to be Jesse Owens and a Jewish fistfighter. Believe it or not, it's also narrated by Death. (Trust me, it works.) Completely engrossing, easy to digest and not at all pretentious or schmaltzy.
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