What are ye reading at the mo?

[crazycanuck]

Are you reading any good non fiction books or others at the moment?

I just finished NomadAayan Hirsi Ali's second book & highly recommend it.

At the moment i'm in the middle of Death & Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs. I've used a few chapters for uni papers but never had the chance til now to read the whole thing. I have my own copy like all good little planning students should :)

Next up..Ann Mustoe Lone Traveller

[Trek-chick]

I am currently reading "Free Wheeling"--Richard Lovett

Lately, I have this thing for reading books on people bicycling across the U.S. One day I hope to do that myself but, until then, I will just live vicariously through other peoples stories :)

Next on my list is....."A Crossing"--Brian Newhouse

I also just finished "Miles from Nowhere"---awesome read---highly recommend it!

[limewave]

I signed up for the summer reading club at the library. I checked out "Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History (http://www.amazon.com/Deadliest-Sea-Untold-Greatest-History/dp/0061766291/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277298513&sr=8-1)"

I don't usually like nonfiction, but this is really good.

[tulip]

I recently finished The Help by Katheryn Stockett. I really enjoyed it. I haven't started another book yet.

[northstar]

I just finished Jane Austen's Persuasion. Hadn't read any Jane since college; enjoyed it!

[OakLeaf]

Nonfiction: Engaging the Muslim World, by Juan Cole - slowly, since there is a LOT of history to absorb;

Fiction: Island Beneath the Sea, by Isabel Allende

[roadie gal]

Reading the Bible, by James Kugel. It's an in depth look at the old testament from the viewpoint of both the ancient philosophers and modern archeologists/ anthropologists and historians.

[Chile Pepper]

Kitchen Chinese, by Ann Mah (fiction, about a Chinese American woman who moves to Beijing). I am quite enjoying it.

[Veronica]

I'm working my way through The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene and I love watching Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking.

A couple of kid books - the latest in the Sisters Grimm series and Keeper by Kathi Appelt. She won a Newberry Honor for The Underneath, an excellent story, but a little too disturbing for me to do as a read aloud with most classes. Keeper, while thought provoking, is more upbeat.

Yesterday I read The Rider by Tim Krabbe. Being on vacation is grand. :D I'm teaching a 4/5 combo next year and I've already got my first two novels planned out, which meant rereading both. Yeah, I'm on vacation, but I like planning. :p

Veronica

[redrhodie]

"Tour de France, the History, the Legend, the Riders" by Graeme Fife.

[huffandpuff]

read all of Michael Pollen's books and am now devouring Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. Have whole new attitude towards food now - eating all local, fresh, healthy and feeling great! Spending more time in the kitchen but not watching the scale so closely - seems to take care of itself with the right food