What are you reading?

I'm reading Rescued:  Saving Animals from Disaster, by Allen and Linda Anderson. 

This book is primarily about rescuing animals after Katrina.  It mentions Muttshack, a veterinary disaster response organization, of which I'm a member.  The book not only has stories, but tips on how to handle evacuating with animals.  I'm not far into it, but it's very interesting.

Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett.  Did anyone else hear he's got Alzheimer's now, poor man? 

Yea so sad We love his books at our house. This news comes a few months after Robert Jordan died as well, another fantasy author I like.

I was sorry to hear about Terry Pratchett as well.

Right now I've just finished A Sense of the World, about a blind man who traveled around the world in the early 1800s.

Next up is A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson.

I just finished Mrs Miniver by Jan Strother, and am now starting Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters.

Just finished Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. Excellent! Just bought, The Medical Detective: John Snow, Cholera and the mystery of the Broad Street Pump by Sandra Hempel. I was looking for something a bit different.

Getting ready to start Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. I know nothing about the book, but my book club in the US was reading it this month so I thought I'd give it a go.

DH has been on me to read Water for Elephants for months now and I just can't get to it. Let me know what you think of it.


Edit: After getting to the end of this thread, I realized you read books faster than I read threads. Glad you liked it. Hopefully I'll get to it in a few weeks.


Edit 2: That was my 500th post!

Just finished Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. Excellent! Just bought, The Medical Detective: John Snow, Cholera and the mystery of the Broad Street Pump by Sandra Hempel. I was looking for something a bit different.

Ooh ooh! Can I recommend you add The Ghost Map to that list?

DH has been on me to read Water for Elephants for months now and I just can't get to it. Let me know what you think of it.


Edit: After getting to the end of this thread, I realized you read books faster than I read threads. Glad you liked it. Hopefully I'll get to it in a few weeks.


Edit 2: That was my 500th post!

To be honest, I started it, got almost halfway through it, then didn't read it for a bit. It's not that it wasn't interesting, I just didn't have my nose in it all the time. I picked it up again at the beginning of the week and the ending was definitely a page turner.

Ooh ooh! Can I recommend you add The Ghost Map to that list?

Sure! I like this thread because I'm always looking for recommendations! Is that written by Sandra Hempel as well? I almost got The Road by Cormac McCarthy because everyone's been talking about it on here. I decided I didn't want something that was distubing to read on this go around. Maybe another time!

It dovetails neatly with the subject matter of your other book.

Reading Hey, Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland.  Re-reading Taubes' book.

The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins.

The Chimney Sweeper's Boy by Barbara Vine.

I just finished Bedroom Secrets of the Masterchefs by Irvine Welsh.  I'm not sure what I thought of it.  An odd one really.

Madame Bovary by Flaubert