What are you reading right NOW?!?!

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Then you seem to agree with the quote printed on the cover.

[Guest cooby]

What does it say? I can't see that far

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

It's "so good."

[Guest cooby]

No, I wouldn't say that. I'll stick to pretty good. But not bad. I've read worse. Far worse.

[seawolf17]

No wonder all the advertisers pulled out of the "Cooby & Yancy Book Review Hour."

[Guest cooby]

It's better that Clink and Clank or whatever their names are.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

What could be more fascinating than a debate between "so good" and "pretty good"?

[Guest cooby]

That's weird. Here at home, I can read that book cover perfectly. You musta thought I was blind as a bat

[Guest cooby]

This is the time of year I like to trot out my ghost stories, my folk tales, Washington Irvin, and my beloved Poe

[Vic Sage]

Mark Twain's ROUGHING IT.

So far i'm disappointed. I thought it was about 19th century S&M.

[seawolf17]

="Vic Sage"]Mark Twain's ROUGHING IT. So far i'm disappointed. I thought it was about 19th century S&M.

You've confused that one with A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur.

[Guest cooby]

Has anybody read this? I picked it up today, along with some Nathanial Hawthorne

[stevejrogers]

An exhastive book on the Finley A's (400 pages). Book came out sometime in the late 1990's so obviously the title is outdated and all.

Started reading it a year ago on my last company trip, only got up to the 1972 World Series, picking it up again now, hopefully I'll finish it by the time I get to the 2007 trip!

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Dave Eggers "A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius"

Another book I'd been meaning to get to for a long time, as a reader of McSweeney's (the online edition anyway, I'm looking for issues of Quarterly Concern).

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

My copy has a simple two-tone leather cover.

It is a chronologically ordered collection of John Steinbeck Novellas published between 1935 and 1945. I have so far read Tortilla Flats, The Red Pony, and Of Mice and Men. I am currently in the midst of The Moon Is Down with Cannery Row and The Pearl to follow.

[Guest cooby]

I like these books, I learn a lot about both Judaism and Christianity from them, and there's plenty of dead bodies.

I hate his wife though; she's a bitch.

[stevejrogers]

Pretty funny book, has transcripts of the big name routines. More of a flowing thoughts book than a straight bio but a good fast read.

[Guest cooby]

Dick Francis has a new book. Life begins again.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Several classmates suggested that I should read Janet Evanovich, because the Stephanie Plum mysteries are set in Trenton. But I'm not enjoying the book - Stephanie Plum seems like a poor imitation of V.I. Warshawski (whom I love - I can't wait for Sara Paretsky to publish the next mystery in June).

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I'm putting Janet Evanovich aside to read this -



Mike Lupica has taken to writing Young Adult novels lately, and I have found them to be good reads.

[Guest cooby]

Edgy DC wrote: Something about that name makes them pose in repose. Funny thing about Speaking with the Angels, the collection of short stories Seo mentions above, is that the best story in it was the one by Colin Firth.

Scratching her head

[Guest Edgy DC]

Colin Firth --- a friend of editor Nick Hornby going back at least to his starring role in Fever Pitch --- wrote a good story, that was indeed better than the rest of those submitted by that McSweeney's crowd.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I finished the Evanovich mystery. Readable, but nothing special - I'll wait for the next V.I. Warshawski mystery to come out in June rather than read another Evanovich book.

Next I'm going to start this -



A couple of classmates recommended this to me because it's a mystery set in Princeton.

[Guest cooby]

I've been reading a couple of books about the Tower of London, but after awhile they read a little like textbooks