The Last Book You Read...

I read a few Grisham novels over the weekend. I think The Partner would be the most recent. Haven't had much time to do Pleasure Reading over the week.
 
I am reading a series by Michelle West. But she writes... all over the place and as I'm coming to it late, I read the first 2 book sequence, which she wrote first. Then 3 books which overlapped those 2 timewise but were from the *third* series. Now I'm reading the second series (6 books total) which takes place in the middle of the third series. :D

I love her writing as Michelle Sagara and these are... much more fantasy. Not sure how much I want to go back to them again and again though :/
 
Join Me by Danny Wallace.

I still haven't finished it yet I have been trying also to read The Poetical Works of Shelley (and been quoting it on the RMB).
 
Kiwi:
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
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Loved that book.

Recently finished Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail – But Some Don't.

Statistically confirmed for me that political pundits and most "experts" are worthless.
 
Ooooo, I want to read that one! I'm reading Kafka's diaries but haven't finished yet. I will probably make a large post with some of my favorite entries. Here's a teaser:

Kafka:
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer and which in a general way are naturally believed, surmised, and admitted by you, but which you'll unconsciously deny when it comes to the point of gaining hope or peace from such an admission. In the diary you find proof that in situations which today would seem unbearable, you lived, looked around and wrote down these observations, that this right hand moved then as it does today, when we may be wiser because we are able to look back upon our former condition, and for that very reason have got to admit the courage of our early striving in which we persisted even in sheer ignorance
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The Casual Vacancy, J K Rowling. Overlooking the sex, drugs and foul language, there were just NO likable characters. Disappointing.
 
Last Night at the Lobster - Stewart O'Nan. A novel to which I actually relate some of my personal experiences. Next up some epic fantasy to cleanse the palate.
 
Star Wars: Luke Skywalker and the Shadow of Mindor by Matthew Stover. An interesting novel, with an unexpected ending.
 
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire by Jason Goodwin. It's a very well-written and informative book, actually.
 
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I'm currently reading "The Exiled Queen" by Cinda Williams Chima.
 
I took a break from Kafka's diaries, if it took him 12 years to write it then I don't feel guilty that it's taking months to read it. :lol:

I read In the garden of beasts during vacation, and a book about Napoleon's invasion of Egypt aptly titled Napoleon in Egypt.

Heinrich Himmler, infamous leader of the Gestapo, was a chicken farmer before the nazi rise to power. Truly frightening. :adn:
 
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