Read any good books lately?

[fastdogs]

I've been reading like crazy since I got my kindle.
I downloaded the free preview to Born To Run, and it sounds good, but haven't ordered the whole book yet because I've got so many to read still.
I recently finished Water for Elephants, a great free book called Paranoia, Son of a Dog (about an adopted greyhound), Surviving an American Gulag, and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See)
I've heard nothing but good reviews about Born to Run, so will probably eventually end up downloading that. I'm reading about a book a week now.
vickie

[redrhodie]

I recently read "Diary of an Exercise Addict" by Peach Friedman. It's the documentation of her slide into exercise bulimia. She tells how exercise became her crutch for coping with life. She tells of binge eating and purging with workouts that became increasingly long and painful, until she was a shell of her old self.

Exercise bulimia is really hard disorder to deal with, and probably easy to develop because we are all taught that we should be exercising more. Eventually, more can be too much, and before you know it, you have an eating disorder.

I think this is important reading for any athletic person. The line between fit and this disease is fine, and you may not know you are suffering from this until you've already done great damage to your body and your life.

[arielmoon]

I just read The Hunger Games. Excellent!

[mtomm]

The Help, Kathryn Stockett

I highly, highly recommend it as an audiobook. Really you cannot go wrong with this book.

[grey]

The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan. Very interesting read, even for a food nut like me.

[shootingstar]

Starting on The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart. By Bill Bishop

His premise is that although U.S. (and Canada) are more diverse in terms of ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, religion, that we do still tend to naturally cluster with like-minded people that we feel most comfortable with. Focus is abit more on political dynamics and changes.

Only halfway through other one that I mentioned earlier in this thread. Plus have a 3rd book I must read for a written book review that I committed for a professional journal. More dull. On law of commerical leases.

[kenyonchris]

I always have several going.
Right now re-reading "A Prayer for Owen Meany"...John Irving. Very, very good (I don't like all his stuff, but the old stuff is great).
Finished "The Time Traveler's Wife"...awesome.
"Peace Like a River"...Leif Enger

And, ashamedly, I read the twilight books.

[graceomalley]

I always have several going.
Right now re-reading "A Prayer for Owen Meany"...John Irving. Very, very good (I don't like all his stuff, but the old stuff is great).
Finished "The Time Traveler's Wife"...awesome.
"Peace Like a River"...Leif Enger

And, ashamedly, I read the twilight books.

Oh, kenyonchris, I knew I liked you after reading your response to the post about the 13 year old sailor.

"Owen Meany" is one of my very favorite books of all time. I, too, reread it every few years. What a gem.

[graceomalley]

Just finished:

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach. It was a satisfying read: very informative and interesting, yet witty and sometimes outright hilarious.

[SpinSpinSugar]

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn - no real way to describe this one you just have to read it. Here's a link to a review: http://fandomania.com/book-review-geek-love/

[northstar]

Best book I've read in a LONG time: Sherman Alexie's "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian." It's autobiographical, mostly...but marked as fiction. You'll laugh, you'll cry, all at the same time. Fantastic.

But right now, I'm reading "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." I love reading cookbooks, and Julia Child is a hoot.

[OakLeaf]

Oh, I love Sherman Alexie. Hilarious, heartbreaking, and very, very angry - all at the same amazing time.