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BAKING CAKES IN KIGALI
was my most recent read. I recommend it for it's humor and its flavor and it's seriousness. Gaill Parkin wrote it.
posted by
Ciel
on February 15, 2014 at 7:56 PM
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Just finished "Prayers for Rain" by Dennis Lehane...
He wrote the novel behind the movie "Mystic River," of a few years back, starred Sean Penn and other actors I admire. His descriptions pulled me in. "a late December morning the color of dull chrome. .... harvest fields frosted the pale gray of newspaper with last week's snow." His book is a thriller, violent with unlikely characters that come off as completely plausible.
I recommend it to any writer interested in creating believable characters, building suspense, fight scenes or weird incongruities in human behavior.
posted by
Pat_B
on February 15, 2014 at 9:59 AM
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I've been reading a book by Stuart Woods....
Actually this is about book #7 of his that I've read...his stories are mystery-whodunits, fast moving usually, and sprinkled with humor...if I do pick up a book (usually from the library) that is just too wordy and has too much description, I'll simply return it...
posted by
Rumor
on February 6, 2014 at 5:40 PM
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i give a book a chance to catch my attention n if that doesn't happen it goes in a pile i will donate
posted by
Annicita
on February 5, 2014 at 1:35 PM
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Not reading anything at the moment. I haven't been able to concentrate for more than a few minutes at a time as my head has been bothering me. What I would like to read is the screen play for Bent. I'm going to see if I can find it on the Internet. I just found out that my great-nephew Miles (Chicago) was chosen for the main character, Max, for the play.
posted by
TAPS.
on February 4, 2014 at 3:11 PM
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I actually picked up a book that I think I may have read some years ago, but just don't recall ( a science-fiction novel by my favorite author Alan Dean Foster ). But just like with some terrible movies, if I'm not enjoying the book, I have no compunction in putting it down, which I have done in the past . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on February 4, 2014 at 2:08 PM
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For myself, no. But most I do love.
posted by
BC-A
on February 4, 2014 at 1:04 PM
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At this point I'm reading a how-to writer's book on
conflict and suspense. So far it's a rehash of lessons learned, but it's good to have those techniques fresh in my mind when I'm editing. As for fiction, I can put down a book and never pick it up again if there's no meat, if the details don't ring true. I might keep reading if I detest characters just to see them get their comeuppance...
posted by
Pat_B
on February 4, 2014 at 3:39 AM
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Ciel
I’m currently reading two things: Lee Smolin, Time Reborn, and on my Kindle I have Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi.
I picked up the Smolin (who’s very critical of string theory) because in this, his latest book, he is (kind of) arguing that we might need to get back to a quasi-Newtonian conception of time, rather than the Minkowski-Einstein version of space-time we’ve become accustomed to. It’s fascinating, and I’m having problems with it that I can’t possibly get into here, LOL..
The Mark Twain is probably the only one of his books I had never read – I downloaded it for free, it’s interesting, and I’m just enjoying it...
posted by
Nautikos
on February 3, 2014 at 1:36 PM
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DC
I just completed Mistress by James Patterson. I am a Patterson fan, so I gave it a shot and am glad I did.
I can stop a book without having to read it to the end. If I do not like it, I do not want to spend my time reading it.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on February 3, 2014 at 12:17 PM
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