What's everyone reading?

[Heather Goodman]

I'm reading Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise. I adore The Great Gatsby, and only about 20 pages in, definitely see a connection between the two books.

[Nicole Petrino-Salter]

Just finished Deadfall by Robert Liparulo, a great book for men who like fiction. If you want to get a general idea of the novel, you can visit my blog for a review that doesn't give much away (hopeofglory.typepad.com/into_the_fire).

Don't know how much reading I'll be doing before Christmas. WIP and blog, not to mention the joyous Christmas season, are taking up a lot of my time right now.

[Heather Goodman]

Know the feeling. Last week, I spent all my time reading my own stuff. This week, I'm giving myself a week to read something other than my own WIP.

[~mich pendergrass]

I'm reading My Antonia by Willa Cather. This has got to be one of the best books I've ever read. I'm halfway into it and it is one I won't ever forget, I can just tell.

[Heather Goodman]

I don't know that one (or that author--I hate admitting to that because I just know someone's going to say, you've never heard of Willa Cather? are you illiterate?). What's it about?

[~mich pendergrass]

I don't know a whole lot about her. She won the Pulitzer in 1923 for One of Ours. She wrote My Antonia just before that in 1918.

Here's an article from the PBS website that I've been waiting to read, I want to finish the book first and then read the article in case there are any spoilers.

Honestly, Stephen King has a list on his blog of his current reads and after them, if they're good, he'll make a comment about them like, "Great book" or "Best one I've read this year." If he's indifferent or didn't find it spectacular, he doesn't comment. This was one he made a great remark about so I ordered from Paperbackswap.com. I am SO glad I did.

So far, it's more of a Little House on the Prairie kind of book about a girl named Antonia whose family came from Bohemia and are trying to settle in Nebraska. Sounds so freaking boring, but I don't know if there's a way to describe the quality of writing. This is one of those books that you experience. The minute you read, you're there. I don't know how she did it. I don't read many books more than once, but this one, I think I'm going to study.

[Gina Conroy]

I just finished Hollywood Nobody by Lisa Samson. The main character, Scotty, is reading the Great Gatsby. I remember reading it in high school and not really liking it. I might have to give it another go.

[Heather Goodman]

Gatsby was my favorite book in high school!

[Gina Conroy]

My favorite book in High School was Catcher in the Rye.

[Brandon Satrom]

I'm with you Gina. Catcher was one of my favorites as well (Favorite was Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein was my absolute favorite), but I didn't care for Gatsby.

[Johne Cook]

Uh. I'm a huge Heinlein fan, but my interest says pretty much with his juvenile novels; Citizen of the Galaxy, Have Spacesuit, Will Travel, etc. I thought Glory Road was an interesting read, but was turned off by his aberrant views on sexuality.

[Brandon Satrom]

To be honest SiaSL is the only Heinlein I've ever read. I've been meaning to check out some of the earlier stuff though. Never read Glory Road. And I agree, some of his views are way off the path. Probably why I never read beyond Stranger, which I felt leveled some accurate criticisms at "religion" but the promiscuity was unfortunate and distracting.

[Johne Cook]

You can't go wrong with pretty much anything written before SiaSL:

* Rocket Ship Galileo, 1947 *
* Beyond This Horizon, 1948
* Space Cadet, 1948 *
* Red Planet, 1949 *
* Sixth Column, 1949
* Farmer in the Sky, 1950
* Between Planets, 1951 *
* The Puppet Masters, 1951
* The Rolling Stones, 1952
* Starman Jones, 1953 *
* The Star Beast, 1954 *
* Tunnel in the Sky, 1955 *
* Double Star, 1956 (Hugo Award, 1956)
* Time for the Stars, 1956 *
* Citizen of the Galaxy, 1957 *
* The Door into Summer, 1957
* Have Space Suit—Will Travel, 1958 *
* Methuselah's Children, 1958
* Starship Troopers, 1959 (Hugo Award, 1960)