What are you reading?

[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).

[7rider]

I'm reading the TE discussion forums!
Actually, on my nightstand is John Muir's "Travels in Alaska". I read it in small chunks when I get a chance - like all the books I read.

[run it, ride it]

Just finishing up an undergrad in English and filling in the gaps to figure out what I want to focus on in grad school.

I'm currently reading through the "Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory" as a reference to find books/plays about topics/genres that interest me.

Right now I've got James Joyce's Ulysses on the go, and then I've got to finish up reading Vonnegut's work. I'd like to read up on John Cage, too.

I am all about the anti-novel, expressionism, structuralism, comedie noire, stream of consciousness, the avant-garde etc. I also love semiotic/cultural theory, cyborg theory...

I really should buckle down and Marx & Engels' "The Communist Manifesto" and read up on Claude Levi-Strauss, Sassure, Chomsky, Foucault, Laquer...

I LOVE THEORY!

[fultzie]

I really should buckle down and Marx & Engels' "The Communist Manifesto" and read up on Claude Levi-Strauss, Sassure, Chomsky, Foucault, Laquer...
I LOVE THEORY!

oh man... i'm finishing up an anthro major and about to start 8 more years of that for grad school... starting to hyperventilate thinking about those authors!!!

just kidding, they really are pretty interesting

A good book that has kind of an overview of (and includes) the major works by several of those authors (and many others... though I don't think it includes Chomsky, unfortunately) is "Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory"-- edited by Erikson and Murphy.

for fun i read bike and other "outdoor adventure" stories (ie: Miles from Nowhere, Heft on Wheels by Mike Magnuson, The Rider by Tim Krabbé, Joe Kurmaskie's books, A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson is one of my absolute favorites) and... more theory. Yep. I hear ya.

Currently in the stack o' books (getting ready for summer): Wilderness and the American Mind by Roderick Nash, No Shortcuts to the Top by Ed Viesturs, Women in the Wild by "Travelers' Tales", Uncommon Ground ed. by William Cronon, and Silent Spring by Rachel Carson.

I've been trying to read Anna Karinina for about 6 years now... it's always in my stack of books for the summer

[Kimmyt]

I read Anna Karenina last year. It was surprisingly good! I thought I'd hate it, but I enjoyed it, even though the names were long and confusing.

K.

[SadieKate]

Maureen Dowd's Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4994492

It's making me laugh and grind my teeth in equal amounts.