What are you reading?

[Vanquisher]

Blah. Hated Crime and Punishment and pretty much every other book I was compelled to read in high school.

I am terribly picky with books though.

Worst book I ever read: "The Good Earth." Horrid. If someone here actually liked that book, my head might actually explode. Mind blown. 4 stars on Amazon. No fucking way.

[Sheherezade]

What are you reading?

Vishenka needs to practice teaching Russian on US. Seriously. British Lit and Russian Lit are my go to's if I'm feeling all educated and stuff. I haaaaaate American Lit. I kept apologizing to my teen last year when he was studying it. Ethan Frome? The Sun Also Rises? Blech.

Gimme some Kafka. I can tolerate O'Henry and Poe though - so maybe it's just the novelists I hate.

[MAPPLEBUM]

I also REALLY love Russian composers. I sometimes think I was born in the wrong era on the wrong continent.

Are we talking Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky or Shostakovich and Prokofiev? I love me some Schnittke.

[diggitydot]

Are we talking Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky or Shostakovich and Prokofiev? I love me some Schnittke.

Some of my faves are Tchaikovsky, Shotsakovich, Stravinsky, and Mussorgsky. I'm not really a Rimsky-Korsakov or Rachmaninoff fan. They're OK, just not the top of my list.

[spaz]

What about nonfiction stuff?? I loved Daring Greatly and The Last Lecture ( very inspirational, not depressing). David McCullough's John Adams and other books are great as well.

Not exactly nonfiction but I like some of the Jeff Shaara books as well.

[ladymoreta]

I'm halfway through an ebook called "The Devil Wears Scrubs" by Freida McFadden. I saw it mentioned on a blog somewhere and it was .99, so I downloaded it. The author is a resident, I think, and the book is a fictionalized version of her intern year. It's both hilarious and terrifying, considering my dh is a 4th year student and will be heading into that next year, but I'm loving any glimpse I can get into his world.

I read House of God right before DH started medical school. Definitely freaked me out.

[v-girl]

I have been reading "If Aristotle's Kid had an iPod" while waiting for kids. Next up is "Blessed are the Bored in Spirit" -- I help with the high school youth group at church.

[WolfpackWife]

I just started "A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty" and am still slogging through "American Gods"...which I actually really, really enjoy but do not have time to pick up my Kindle these days. Hoping to finish it up over Thanksgiving. There are three other Gaiman novel's I'm itching to get into...

[Deebs]

Can you tell where I am in my current life by this list?
"Smart but Scattered"
"Taking Charge of ADHD"
"Quiet Kids"
"Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students"
Each day's selection from this list is based on which kid I'm struggling the most to understand and help.


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[Cleave]

Moonwalking with Einstein: the Art and Science of Remembering Everything -- a journalist's story of how he learned how to better use his crummy memory and eventually win the USA memory championship.

it's due back at the library tomorrow. I better hurry up and finish.

[spotty_dog]

Can you tell where I am in my current life by this list?
"Smart but Scattered"
"Taking Charge of ADHD"
"Quiet Kids"
"Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students"
Each day's selection from this list is based on which kid I'm struggling the most to understand and help.

My favorite genre, stuff to help me help my kids! I just finished "The Read-Aloud Handbook", "Guiding the Gifted Child" (though I'm still not positive my kids are necessarily in that category), and "Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics". On to "Mindset: the New Psychology of Success."

I also picked up "Where'd You Go Bernadette" but I am nervous to start in case I don't like it! I am out of practice reading fiction.

[BonBon]

My favorite genre, stuff to help me help my kids! I just finished "The Read-Aloud Handbook", "Guiding the Gifted Child" (though I'm still not positive my kids are necessarily in that category), and "Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics". On to "Mindset: the New Psychology of Success."

I also picked up "Where'd You Go Bernadette" but I am nervous to start in case I don't like it! I am out of practice reading fiction.

I'm reading Mindset right now. Lurve it; lots of food for thought. I bought it for my kids, but am finding it applies to my own life as well.

[spotty_dog]

I'm reading Mindset right now. Lurve it; lots of food for thought. I bought it for my kids, but am finding it applies to my own life as well.

Great minds think alike! I loved the bit in the intro about John McEnroe hating tennis even though he was so talented. I've always told my kids that excelling at anything takes at least two of the three: talent, passion, hard work.

[WolfpackWife]

Reading "Backseat Saints" by Joshilyn Jackson (well, listening to it). I finished "A Grown Up Kind of Pretty" about a week ago and really enjoyed it. So far, I like this one much better - it's a little dark but also sweet and full of southern whimsy. Plus, the author reads the audio version and I really like when that happens.

[Curegirl]

I'm reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. It's a really wonderful book and I have no clue how it escaped my childhood reading, but I'm catching up now!

LSW, that's exactly what I'm reading right now! Got it at a library book sale a little while ago and started it yesterday. I finished Midwives by Chris Bohjalian and really like it too.