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i am one of those damn people who cant just read one thing at a time. i usually have two or three books that i read concurrently (pretty sure this is a curse and not a blessing) i always finish one of them and usually have to return later and finish the others.
anway, besides this i also always have that NEXT book around waiting patiently, and if not i am almost always sure what the next one will be. this occurs because there is so much i want to read and am always getting new ideas and suggestions.

(e.g. : currently: The Glass Bead Game by Heman Hesse (main)/ Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln (sideread)/ Walden by Henry David Thoreau (sideread), The Days Are Just Packed by Bill Watterson (sideread and in the lieu) , and An Open Heart by His Holiness The Dalai Lama (co-main)

next: Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, and
Total Freedom by J. Krishnamurti)


so my question to you:

What book is sitting there, waiting patiently, on you nightstand as you leaf through your current mental adventure?

Reading Paul Theroux's "The Pillars of Hercules" now with "A Mighty Heart" by Marianne Peral, widow of journalist Danny Pearl.

Let's see...I just finished Haruki Murakami's new book "Kafka on the Shore" and "A thousand days in Venice" by de blassi (I thiink that's the last name). Right now I'm reading "All Over Creation" by Ruth Ozeki, "Hell's Bottom, Colorado" by Laura Pritchett, "The Deep End of the Ocean" by Jaqueline Mitchard?? and also a Spanish-learning book. I read so fast that I'll carry around several books with me to read on my commute.

My next read is gonna be 'Anna Karenina' - I've been saving it for my trip to Europe, since it's such a long book!

Cherie: perhaps you and I are literary twins?

Haruki Murakami is my other fave author. I've been entranced by his work since high school! I most enjoyed After the Quake.
weird...

Eowyn: I just finished reading AK a few months ago. My warning is this: If you liked Madame Bovary or Lady Chatterley's Lover, you'll like AK. If that doesn't help, let's just say that men like to write books about bored, horny, tragic housewives.

Hmm..well, I thought Lady Chatterley's lover was a decent (although written in a very odd way) read, so guess I'll like AK??

Cherie and Natasha: Would you suggest Kafka on the Shore? I haven't read any Murakami, maybe I should start with something else? Maybe the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle?

I'm currently flying through Bryson's "Walk in the Woods," just finished rereading the Hitchhiker's Guide series in anticipation of the new movie, half way through Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tipping Point," just started "Patagonia" by Bruce Chatwin, and I read a bit of "Time and the Art of Living" by Robert Grudin every day. After I finish Tipping Point I'm going to dive into Jeff Hawkin's "On Intelligence," and when I finish Walk in the Woods I'll start up "Summerland" by Michael Chabon. I like to read at least one story book (fiction or non) and what I like to call a "brain" book at the same time so my reading material can fluctuate between moods.

I received "Weinsburg Ohio" as a gift and began reading it last night. I had never heard of it before, but so far, so good. It's all about this little town in Ohio, and so far has been describing the people who live there.

Excuse me, that should have been "Winesburg, Ohio"

Taytay
I've not yet read Kafka on the Shore (I plan to, tho!), but Wind-Up Bird is his best known work and a good introduction I would say.

Also, speaking of M.Chabon, have you read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay? I loved it.

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Taytay
I've not yet read Kafka on the Shore (I plan to, tho!), but Wind-Up Bird is his best known work and a good introduction I would say.

Nobody's called me Taytay in a loooong time haha. And as far as Kavalier and Clay goes, it's been my favorite book since it hit the store shelves, I've read it twice over since, sort of like a ritual thing every summer.

my next read is an older book called the beach(also a movie i know--and yes i have seen the movie a couple of years ago) but as we all know the book always beats a movie (except the books that turn movies but uses all the words as in the movie) example would be the movie bringing out the dead......the movie is almost exactly word for word as the book....

after that is angels and demens

Currently reading : Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (Author of Everything is Illuminated)

Very engaging and I'm only 40 pages in.

I'm like the original poster. I read several books at a time, I'm a psycho reader. I never am in the bathroom without something good either (that wasted time on the toilet! Ugh!).

I bought the Johnathan Safran Foer books, and made my 11 year old son sit next to me while I read him the first pages of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. He was laughing so hard. I was able to get him to continue to read that. Then he gave it back, and he wants me to read it first to make sure it's "ok" for him like the parental guidance type thing. But I digress.

Right now I have a stack of EFL, teaching English as a foreign language books that I'm tearing through. I'm catching up with my Economist magazines.

I have Tom Sawyer in the bathroom. I've started a couple of Robertson davies Trilogies.

BUT drum roll.
Thank You TAYLOR!!!
I bought the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
This author is some kind of idiot savant genius or something. I have to stop reading the book frequently and stare at this guy's picture. This book is amazing me. Thank you TAYLOR!!!!

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I have Tom Sawyer in the bathroom.

I have Prince Albert in the can.

Ha ha! I also have Einstein's Dreams in there, but that could get a little more ethereal.

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BUT drum roll.
Thank You TAYLOR!!!
I bought the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
This author is some kind of idiot savant genius or something. I have to stop reading the book frequently and stare at this guy's picture. This book is amazing me. Thank you TAYLOR!!!!

ahem...(I first mentioned it...)

Oh!

Sorry, I remember Taylor because he said it was his favorite book, and blah blah...

*bows*

So you also have excellent taste!

Got five books going. Theroux's "Fresh Air Fiend" a Spenser Novel. Mike Durant's capture acccount. "Cider House Rules" (again). Anthony Bourdrain's "Kitchen Confidential" and a book by Michael Ledwidge called "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead". The Ledwidge thing is a complete "found it in 'remaindered' and tried it" thing. Shit, that's six. If I sit, I have to read. Room to room, I go.

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Originally posted by jedimasterbooboo:
Oh!

Sorry, I remember Taylor because he said it was his favorite book, and blah blah...

*bows*

So you also have excellent taste!

All the credit goes to Natasha for bringing up the book, but I'm glad you like it. Chabon's entire catalog is amazing, but you might like Wonderboys if you have the chance. Also, if you enjoy The Escapist (from Kavalier and Clay) then you'll be happy to know that Dark Horse Comics is putting out a quarterly of "The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist," the first two collections of which can be found here and here.