What are ye reading at the mo?

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

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!

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"

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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