What are you reading the week of May 26, 2013?

[DUgosh]

Brisingr by Christopher Paolini ~ Eragon book #3

2013 Book #60

[grasswire]

1. Ivan Doig Dancing At The Rascal Fair

I somehow missed reading Doig. For many many years I read very little fiction -- too busy with other things.

[JitterbugPerfume]

2. Finishing A Memory of Whiteness

It is a strange futuristic book, and I love it. Next I will read Icehenge also by Kim Stanley Robinson and Free Thought Honest Talk and The Seperation of Church and State by Robert Ingersoll

[LWolf]

3. Re-reading all of my old

Elizabeth Peters books.

[Mz Pip]

4. The Light Between the Oceans

By M. L. Stedman. Really liking it so far.

[YankeyMCC]

5. "Blue Remembered Earth" by Alastair Reynolds

[Kablooie]

6. Just finished Fall Of Giants and Lolita.

By Ken Follet and Nabakov.

I listen to one book while driving and the other I read in bed.

[Curmudgeoness]

8. I just finished Winter of the World,

the second in the trilogy by Follett. I really enjoyed Fall of Giants. Winter of the World was also good. I await the third book.

I have Lolita sitting on the bookcase waiting to be read one day.....too many books, too little time.

[Kablooie]

9. I thought it was a great way to understand history.

It's a little silly in that the small set of characters experience and interact with every major person and event in history but I learned a lot more about the origins of WWI than I ever had before.
Being involved in the personal stories and seeing historical events as a participant makes a huge difference from simply reading the details in a history book.

After taking a little break from Follett's world I'll probably dig into the next book too.

I have to say I didn't learn a lot of history from Lolita. ; )
It is quite an impressive bit of writing though and quite funny in places.
Amazing that Nabakov's first language was Russian.
He had a much broader grasp of English than most Americans. (Even Tea Partiers. heh. )

[Curmudgeoness]

10. I have to agree

that it is rather a stretch that the characters were all right in the middle of some major events and interacted with so many major players in history. If you think that is silly, you will be in awe of how they do even more in WOTW. But I suppose that there isn't any easy way to deal with a novel looking into personal lives of people living through history, as well as dealing with the history itself. I had to give him credit for finding a way.

I also did not know all that much about the reasons for WWI, and I have to say that it was the stupidest reason I could invent to take the lives of millions of people. Pride......what a crock. And we haven't learned a thing.

I had also taken a break between books, simply because I had to wait on the long list of people at the library.

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7. A Visit from the Goon Squad

by Jennifer Egan - (2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction). Just finished it and liked it so much I'm now reading another book by Egan -" Look at Me" which I am liking even better.