What are you currently reading??

**Dixie Normos** · November 27th, 2007, 05:48 PM

"The Club Dumas" it's a little like The DaVinci Code, only not as obvious, and without any car chases.

**Bijoux** · November 28th, 2007, 09:42 AM

I'm reading Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman. It's a bit different from the movie. So far, so good.

**southernbelle** · December 1st, 2007, 04:44 PM

Something Blue by Emily Giffin

**ariesallover** · December 2nd, 2007, 11:17 AM

The Honeymoon's Over: True Stories of Love, Marriage, and Divorce
by Andrea Chapin

Not sure I could get into this, so I returned it to the library.

A lot of heartfelt stories, but not necessarily stuff I could connect with.

Some were especially good (the title is now escaping me, but it's about the student who eventually married her prof), but I've come across anthologies (e.g., The Other Woman) where all the writing was bumped up a notch consistently on every level.

This felt a lot more like Lifetime for Women cross with some dorm-room ranting and whispers.

Also just finished Twenty-grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money

by Rebecca Curtis

Simple language, so much so that you think you're talking to someone in line at the grocery store, yet she hits without being heavy-handed on so many things that people want to gloss over and forget, like the nuances of class differences in America.

Her first story is probably the most literal and representational in the telling. The rest of the stories, however, take a cue from Rebecca Brown's and Zsuzsi Gartner's work: they don't seek to be representational, and the whimsical stories have something of fairy tale gone wrong in them in a gritty, too-adult way. The narrative is abstract and left without grounding or resolution. For me the effect is addictive; for others, this might be infuriating since the story is told more through omissions than directness.

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**MarieAntoinette** · December 3rd, 2007, 01:30 AM

"Brass" by Helen Walsh - I like it so far.

**yanna** · December 3rd, 2007, 01:57 AM

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee. It was amazing. I'm as layman as you can get but this book is truly written with everyday people in mind all the while not treating them like idiots. I had seen some of the cases described in a documentary series about the mind presented by John Cleese (I particularly remember the guy who thought his parents were imposters). Wonderful book.

**chartreuse** · December 3rd, 2007, 01:36 PM

how to practice: the way to a meaningful life by the dalai lama

**Fluffy** · December 3rd, 2007, 10:04 PM

Zamba:The True Story of the Greatest Lion That Ever Lived

**buttmunch** · December 4th, 2007, 12:10 PM

Dandy in the Underground by Sebastian Horsley. Hilarious. What a complete fuckup this guy is.

**MarieAntoinette** · December 4th, 2007, 12:46 PM

^ Would you recommend that book? The title sounds intriguing to me.

**buttmunch** · December 4th, 2007, 12:49 PM

I'll recommend it if you have a strong stomach for complete absurdity, scathing self-deprication and some rather interesting sexual scenerios. Oh, and drugs.

**MarieAntoinette** · December 4th, 2007, 12:53 PM

Alright, that convinced me I'll put it on my list.

There seem to be a lot of books like that out nowadays, it's like an epidemic.

**sputnik** · December 4th, 2007, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by buttmunchv.2

Dandy in the Underground by Sebastian Horsley. Hilarious. What a complete fuckup this guy is.

i like the title. does it have anything to do with the t.rex album of the same name?

Originally Posted by buttmunchv.2

I'll recommend it if you have a strong stomach for complete absurdity, scathing self-deprication and some rather interesting sexual scenerios. Oh, and drugs.

sounds like my kind of book...