What are you reading?

[Sky]

I'm reading a book called The Double Bind. It's a good book. Not fantastic, but good. The main character is a college girl who likes to bike the back roads of Vermont. She was attacked while out riding so that part is scary.

I was wondering if anyone knows of other fiction books about cycling. Any good non-fiction books? I was looking at a book called Coblestone Dreams. Has anyone read it?

[CycleTherapy]

Sky,

Here's a link to an author's website (Dave Shields) where you can order his books. I have read two of his works; THE RACE and THE TOUR.....excellent cycling stories ! His current book is about Saul Raisin's come back after his horrific cycling accident (non-fiction).http://www.daveshields.com/purchase.html

I think you'll enjoy this author and his cycling story-lines.

[uforgot]

I just finished Dean Koontz's Life Expectancy. Loved it! Very suspenseful, but I found myself laughing out loud in parts. A lot of one-liners. My favorite book of his.

[surgtech1956]

Patricia Cornwell's At Risk. Love all her books. Also read Michael Crichton, Robin Cook,

[stacie]

After the loss of his family, a 40ish overweight, alcoholic couch potato sets off on a journey across America on his bike. The book is about the people he meets and the search to find his old self.

[KnottedYet]

I've been told I look like Patricia Cornwell. (but I'm not into her books)

I just finished "History of the world in six glasses" but can't remember the author. (looks at history based on beer, wine, liquor, tea, coffee, and Coca Cola)

Tried tried tried to read "Covering, the hidden assault on our civil rights" (I think that's the title) but it just got tedious.

I was reading a Suze Orman book, "Money Secrets" or something like that. It's in a pile of stuff somewhere. I need to finish it before the library comes a'calling...

Now, for gazing at author pictures I'll take Cornwell or Nevada Barr over Orman any day!

[AllezGirl]

My favorite cycling book is Miles From Nowhere by Barbara Savage.

Also enjoyed Pedaling to Hawaii by Stevie Smith

[limewave]

I've been reading manuscripts lately. I work at a publisher and am helping to come up with cover design ideas. But, none of them are about cycling. Sorry.

Upcoming books I just read:
Kill Me if You Can by Nicole Young
This is the second book in her series. The main character travels from town to town fixing up homes to sell them for a profit . . . murder and mystery follows her wherever she goes.

The Pawn by Steven James
Along the lines of Patricia Cornwell novels, a forensic pathologist is hot on the trail of a serial killer. This is the first in the series. I really liked it.

All the Tea in China by Jane Orcutt
Historical romance with pirates and sword fights. It was a fun read.

Reading now:
A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers (an old favorite)
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Bear and the Dragon by Tom Clancy

I want to read:
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich (It's just fun)
A Tale of Two Sisters by Anna Maxted
Christine Falls by Donna Freydkin

[smilingcat]

"A Man without a Country" by Kurt Vonnegut
"On Intellegence" by Jeff Hawkins

The latter deals with why AI (artificial intellegence) is just smoke and why neural networks is destined to fail. so I'm a geekett. The human brain, neo-cortex, is trully amazing.

my background: I was a research engineer back in the Star War days of Ronnie Reagan. Then I saw the light that it was wrong. So I resigned my position. Still I'm interested in how human brain really works and the computational aspects. This is why I'm interested in things like "On Intellegence"

once a nerd always a nerd. So what is a proper dress attaire for a girl nerd. Ugly Betty?

[Pax]

I just finished The Sardonyx Net by Elizabeth A. Lynn. She wrote wonderful Fantasy and SciFi back in the late 70's and early 80's, I LOVE her stuff.

[Trekhawk]

Sky,

Here's a link to an author's website (Dave Shields) where you can order his books. I have read two of his works; THE RACE and THE TOUR.....excellent cycling stories ! His current book is about Saul Raisin's come back after his horrific cycling accident (non-fiction).http://www.daveshields.com/purchase.html

I think you'll enjoy this author and his cycling story-lines.

I love Dave Shields, he signed my copies of The Race and The Tour at the LRRH century last year.

GLC1968 sent me a great biking read called It's not about the Tapas by Polly Evans. Its Polly account of touring by bike around Spain. Parts of it had me rolling around laughing.

[Kimmyt]

I'm currently reading Dracula by Bram Stoker. I've never read it, can you believe!

Next up is Slaughterhouse Five, because Vonnegut died and yet again I can't believe I've never read that book.

The amount of classic books I didn't read in high school and college amazes me!

[Bikingmomof3]

The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd

I realy enjoyed reading this book. I have enjoyed everything by Sue Monk Kidd.

[MomOnBike]

I index books, so I go through a lot of them. Right now, I have 3 on my desk. One is about developing teachers, one about teaching math and a really thick one I've been ignoring about Something.

Sadly, I don't read for pleasure any more, but I used to enjoy biographies. Now, reading is too similar to work.

I enjoy recorded books, though, for those times I'm doing something mindless with my hands. For those times, I prefer books with no redeeming social value. I'm several hours into "Across the Nightengale Floor" by, um, somebody. It's a great blood-and-guts fantasy romance. Just what I need.

[ace]

I read the Double Bind, Sky. The opening sequence almost made me scream....and the end was pretty shocking

I'm reading Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (by a woman who died in the Holocaust, fictional, about life in France under the occupation) and Death Comes for the Fat Man, by Reginald Hill (part of a great mystery series set in England).