Here's one we haven't done in a few years! Anybody out there reading for pleasure these days? I've managed to read a couple (and I do mean a couple) of books in the last month or two:

1. Daughters of Men: Portraits of African American Women & Their Fathers
This is a collection of essays by famous, and not so famous women about their fathers'.

2. Odd Hours - Dean Koontz's 4th book featuring Odd Thomas, the Pico Mundo fry cook who sees dead people.

Just finished the Fifth Woman, another Henning Makell atmospheric police procedural from Sweden. He wrote 9 of them. Also just finished In The Prescence of the Enemy, the 7th outing of Inspector Lynley by Elizabeth George. Always a good read. I'm also reading all the Bill Pronzini "Nameless Detective" books in order. Recently finished reading the Sherlock Holmes stories in order; was surprised by how fresh and well written they were. PS: I read a lot. Usually knock off at least one book a week.

Mis-typed. It's Henning Mankell. Great writer.

Wow! One book a week! That's great! I myself am going for one book a month.

I was sick for a year when I was 13. It got me in the habit of reading. Now in my 50's and the habit remains....funny how sometimes "bad" things turn out pretty ok.

I am currently reading "Walking in Circles Before Lying Down" by Merrill Markoe.

I'm reading a couple of books at the same time (well, not at EXACTLY the same time! you know what I mean) -

"The Importance of Music to Girls" - a memoir from an English writer, Lavinia Greenlaw about growing up in England in the 70s

and "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch.

Ken
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If you haven't yet read Interpreter of Maladies, by Jumpa Lahiri, do so immediately. Her first book, it won the Pulitzer and the Hemingway Pen. A true delight. Available in paperback. Avoid the Kite Runner: melodramatic, contrived, manipulative. And avoid anything by Dan Brown; commercial hypercaffeinated crap. His Angels and Demons is the single worst book I have ever read.

I tried to get into "Everything I Needed to Know I learned in Kindergarten" but found it to be an unenaging spate of personal opinion on the part of the author.

I did read "Who Moved My Cheese" recently, and enjoyed that. If you haven't read it, it's about accepting change, letting go of old situations that have died, and moving on to new and usually better circumstances.

I'm about to read "Critical Chain" by Eli Goldratt, which is his application of the Theory of Constraints to project management. Just finished a course in Project Management and am finding myself involved in more and more projects lately, so I think it'll be a good read.

Wow! I actually liked Angels & Demons. I'm awaiting his new one that takes place in DC.