So this week I'm reading...

Philip Roth's "The Humbling," about an actor who can no longer act. So he runs off to the country where me meets a much younger (and very sexy) woman. Good ol' Roth.

The New Yorker's profile of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. I have a friend who fell completely in love with him after seeing the Social Network. If you, too, are craving more details about Zuckerberg's life, you'll find plenty in the New Yorker piece.

During stop lights I've been scanning "On Solitude" by Michel De Montaigne. It's a lovely, slim letterpress edition from Penguin's Great Idea series. Very easy to carry around. And amazingly insightful.

At Starbucks: flipping through the new Anthropologie catalogue.

Also rereading underlined paragraphs in Michael Cunningham's book,
"The Hours."

"She looks older, Louis thinks in astonishment. It's finally happening. What a remarkable thing, these genetic trip wires, the way a body can sail along essentially unaltered, decade after decade, and then in a few years capitulate to age."
wow.

Just picked up:

The Chronicle Books reissue of Diana Vreeland's "Allure." Goodie!


What are you reading at the moment?

What are you reading?

It's my seasonal question...



At the moment I'm reading Jonathan Franzen's Freedom (love it...and yes he is all that!)
Next, I plan to read Ken Follett's "Fall of Giants." (It's nearly 1,000 pages long. It could be my winter and spring reading too!)
In between: I'm studying James Beard's On Bread. (One of my cousins recently gave me an awesome starter, renewing my quest to make the perfect loaf of bread.)

So what are you reading!?


Photo above by Allister Ann via Lomography.com.

(Some of your previous responses here on the EM reading list.)

What books are you reading?

And which books do you want for Christmas?

I figured it was time to update the English Muse reading list....

 

So please leave your answers on this post...

And I'll report back with everyone's favorites later this week!

PS: I usually read a couple books at once....so now I'm reading Once on a Moonless Night by Dai Sijie and Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith...

Photo credits {here}

What are you reading?

Hello Everyone, Good morning. (It's morning here on the West Coast anyway...) I got to bed before midnight last night, which is very rare for me!

I wanted to update the English Muse book list on Amazon, created after the last time we talked about books. You all had such wonderful suggestions!

So, what are you reading now? I just started "I Was Told There'd Be Cake," by Sloane Crosley. So far it's very funny. (And I couldn't resist a book with that title. I'm always hoping for cake.)


Previous book posts with your comments:

Got Books?
Reading...

Also:
The English Muse book list on Amazon.

UPDATE. The photo (above) was taken outside the Libreria bookstore in Amsterdam. It's by MorBCN and is posted {here} on flickr!

I found it via the Tumblr blog Talk Nerdy To Me.