<p>Recently read</p>
<p>The Devil in the White City: History that reads like mystery. Good stuff.</p>
<p>Homer and Troy: Makes a strong, well-reasoned case for the historicity of the Trojan War. Complete with fascinating insights into Homer and the latest archeological finds.</p>
<p>Persian Fire by Tom Holland-a historyof the Persian invasion of Greece by Xerxes in 480 BCE.</p>
<p>I am reading more ebooks- [some</a> are even free!]( <a href=“http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/]some”>Online Book Catalog | Project Gutenberg)
While I didn’t buy my Palm for the digital book capability, I * have to* read before I go to sleep and most lights bother my H or aren’t bright enough for me. Reading books in bed on the Palm are actually better than I expected, they are easy to see and even hold my place since I always forget to put a bookmark in, I currently “discovered” Neil Gaiman and am reading American Gods. </p>
<p>( also love Didion- one of my favorite writers)</p>
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<p>I just finished it. It’s haunting and devastating (particularly when you consider what happened after the events related in the book…)</p>
<p>ebeee, I have Jodi Picoult’s new book by my bed but haven’t started it yet. I got myself 3/4’s of the way through an old Michener book, “The Novel” and even though I don’t like it anymore, I feel compelled to finish it.</p>
<p>My son loved Orson Scott Card. I think he owns at least a dozen of them and re-reads them often.</p>
<p>Finally finished Neuromancer. It suffered for mostly being read between midnight and 2am. Somehow it just wasn’t as compelling as CC! Some lovely imagery, and certainly you can see why it was groundbreaking. I occassionally had trouble following the plot such as it was. I even ended up reading a summary on line and realized I hadn’t actually missed anything! LOL. </p>
<p>I’m now reading Elizabeth Moon’s new book. Much lighter military/space opera sci-fi.</p>
<p>I’m reading ‘Mayflower’–mini did you write that?</p>
<p>Just kidding, but man, the pilgrims were a bunch of vindictive, cold-blooded, half-baked religious lunatics. It’s hard to believe that the likes of George Washignton and Abe Lincoln popped out of those poor makings for society.</p>
<p>It makes interesting reading.</p>
<p>Maybe the US should relax about the Iraqi insurgents and give the situation a few decades to settle down. Worked for the US in the early 1700’s and worked for Vietnam in the 1980s.</p>
<p>Hi mathmom!</p>
<p>Glad you got through Neuromancer! Sounds like you didn’t get sucked into his cyperpunkdom like I did. My D is reading Pattern Recognition right now and has much the same reaction. Loves his prose, the concepts, but not so much the characters.</p>
<p>Enjoy your new book!</p>
<p>We just got started on the Dresden Files books. The first two struck me as pretty creative with the constant juxtaposition of the magical and the mundane, like wizards carrying handguns, but once you get past that, they’re pretty predictable. They’re good fast reads, though, and I find I like the characters and their world enough to stay along for the ride.</p>
<p>I will. Elizabeth Moon writes a great page turner. This is the third in a series I’ve enjoyed.</p>
<p>D had to read Wuthering Heights for her AP Lit class. I never read it, so I told her I’d read it too. Wow—pretty messed up people in that one! I’m just happy I don’t have to write any dumb essays about it! I’m starting my stack of books to take to read on spring break…I’ve got some good ideas from reading this thread.</p>
<p>A MUST READ </p>
<p>English translation of ‘Shadow of the Wind’. Ruiz Zafon (?)*****</p>
<p>For me a better read than da Vinci Code.
Takes place throughout the nooks and crannies of Barcelona</p>
<p>Oh…thanks bill. I may have to go get that one before we leave on Spring Break vacation…I loved da Vinci Code, and loved Barcelona. Thanks!</p>