What book/books are you reading now?

[NinaZara]

What book are you guys reading now? and do you guys read two or three books at a time?

At the moment I'm reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.So far so good.Love it actually.

[Torsten]

Hi Nina,

Right not I'm reading "A Perfect Crime" by Peter Abrahams. I bought it a couple of years ago and started to read it but didn't finish it back then.
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[Jamie (K)]

I usually have more than two books going at the same time. Right now I'm reading:

Buddha Baby by Kim Wong Keltner. It's the sequel to her novel The Dim Sum of All Things, which is all about a young woman in the United States who is of Chinese ancestry, has a Chinese face, etc., but does not speak Chinese and hardly knows anything about China. She's just a regular American, and people expect her to know about everything Chinese. I found the first book so well written and so funny that I'm now reading the second one.

I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe. This novel is about a very intelligent high school girl from the country and what happens to her when she arrives in the decadent, immoral atmosphere of student life at a big university. Another good novel by Tom Wolfe is The Bonfire of the Vanities, which is all about journalism and racial politics in the United States.

Briefe in die chinesische Vergangenheit by Herbert Rosendorfer. This is a German novel about a man in ancient China who travels forward in time and lands in Munich, Germany, but for a while thinks he's in China. He explains German society from the point of view of a complete outsider.

Lenka au pair by Martina Drijverov?, which is a novel in Czech about a Czech girl who goes to Paris to be a nanny.

Values in a Time of Upheaval by Pope Benedict XVI. I think the title explains it.

I've also got a couple of financial books going. I've just finished The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex and Feminism by Carrie Lukas, which is full of very good information, but unfortunately also full of typos.

[stew.t.]

Hi

I am no way as ambitous as Jamie and could not read five at a time but at the moment am reading

Kazuo Ishiguro novel Never let me go,
a great Asian author who incidentally wrote The remains of the day, which became a film.

Also
The best of Roald Dahl
more famous as a great childrens author but this one is short stories.
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[Snezana]

Hi, Nina

What a coincidence! I've just finished reading a book by a Japanese author: Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami. I like it very much, and I keep recommending it to people around me. And, yes, I usually read at least two books at the same time (I'm somewhere in the middle of Irving Stone's Lust for life and there is Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red waiting for me).
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[Torsten]

Hi everybody,

This is turning into a very interesting thread, many thanks to NinaZara for starting it. In addition to sharing the books we are currently reading, I'd like to know how and where you get new books? I mean do you buy most of your books and keep them once you have read them or do you prefer borrowing books from a library? Or maybe you frequently swap books with friends and family? It occurred to me that I have accumulated quite a number of books most of which I probably won't read again. So I could as well swap them with you. As a matter of fact, we could start some sort of 'used book exchange'. Let me know what you think.

Regards,
Torsten
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[Yankee]

I've got two books going at the moment:
Mark Twain's autobiography and a book written and published by my brother-in-law's brother (whose style is ... ummm... a bit different from Twain's. )

[stew.t.]

Hi

In answer to Torstens query I usually get books from shops and as presents from those people who know I am a keen book reader. However I do miss the second hand book shops we had in England. One because I could get books in English and two Germany doesn?t have as many or as cosy second hand book shops as England.
I sometimes lend books from libraries but due to lack of time find this task less frequent and harder to fulfill.

I do lend my books, especially to students, however some have over time gone missing. Notabley a great Bruce Chatwin (travelog writer) compelation of his short stories, that I got just after he died. So I was really annoyed with when this happened.

But the idea of a book exchange is great. Also gives me the difficut task of deciding which ones to part with.
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[Pamela]

Hi all,
One more bookwarm among you.I usually classify books into two groups: for pleasure and books I must devour by perforce(legal literature). I have formed a reading habit early in life and my first contact with them started with digesting the complete works by James Headly Chase and Agatha Christie.So far I do much reading in history of other countries and prefer classics as ever. The usual way I get books is buying them in shops and downloading via Internet.In general, my e-library consists of computer books aimed at increasing my computer literacy.

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[Ahmadov]

NinaZara, thank you for raising this question. This will encourage me to read books in the future
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[medeya2012]

Hi all,

I have just finished 'Misery' by Stephen King, it was amazing book, I was impresed.
I'm going to read 'Web' by John Wyndham, I guess it's a fantastic novel, my friend recommended it.
At the same time, I try to finish ' Ali i Nino' by Kurban Said, Azeri writer living in German.
The most exciting book that I'm reading now is ' Sotvori sebe mir' by Chingiz Abdullayev, he is Azeri, famous for his detective novels in Russia and in Europe.
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[prezbucky]

I just finished River God (again -- great book) and am now starting Warlock (again), both by Wilbur Smith.
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[NinaZara]

Torsten and Ahmadov, the pleasure is all mine.Anyway I get my books from the amazon and kinokuniya.

Jamie, very impressive. I never read more than two books at a time.I think I'll get confused.

Snezana, the tiltle really doesn't tell much, does it?Is it a guide to love kind of book?or love in space?

By the way Medeya, have you read Stephen King's Lisey's story? I bought it last week. I read several of his books before but he is kinda too big for me. He is the only author that makes me feel mentally challenged He is just very hard to comprehend. I bought his book anyway and I re-read the first chapter and still not sure of what i've comprehended.Few!