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What book is on your nightstand?
Posted by Blaiser • 6/18/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: community, literature, reading, writing
It's been all about the essay for me, lately. "Best American Essays of the 20th Century" is actually on the kitchen counter, on its way to the nightstand.
Also just read a great profile on Nora Roberts in The New Yorker.
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The last book I had on my nightstand was A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. That book amazes me. I've read it several times. -
The Match King. -
Cool thread.
The Alchemist.-
That's laying around my house, I'm thinking of reading it myself. -
I have read that one. Amazing writing. -
GREAT book!
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Usually, books on my nightstand stay on my nightstand. Unopened. But I have been reading snippets of: "Geary"s Guide To The World"s Great Aphorists."-
Mmm. Preparing for your entry into it, I see. Wise indeed.
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Queen of Candesce by Karl Schroeder. The second book of the Virga series. Fun science fiction.
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Shock Doctrine about disaster capitalism and how the tyrannical right use man made and natural crises to forward their political agendas. -
HG Wells Complete and Unbridged -
Diary of St. Faustina -
Three books, actually - The Mars Trilogy (Red, Green, and Blue) by Kim Stanley Robinson -
The Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood-
I started this thread over the summer and just came back -- cool to see that there are a few responses. For anyone who ventures back... what's there now? I have "The Secret Agent" by Conrad, "The Happiness Hypothesis" and "Small World" a funny novel about English professors behaving badly...
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City of Night. The second of the Dean Koontz's Frankenstein novels. -
3 books, actually; "Jungian Dream Interpretation; A Handbook of Theory and Practice," "Life, Inc.; How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back" and "Turbulent Mirror; An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness." -
Undetectable Poisons-
All re-reads:
"The Journals of Jules Renard."
"Selected Poems of Antonio Machado."
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The Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet by Edith Pargeter (Who also writes as Ellis Peters.).-
(But that is not the only one there since I have lots of space on my night stand, but that's the one I'm reading right now.)
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I don't really enjoy reading, but I read to my kids every night, so probably there's Oh The Thinks You Can Think on the night table now.-
LOL I like this answer.
On my kids night table is The Hardy Boys: Mystery on Cabin Island.
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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho-
Loved the Alchemist. Also just read Veronika Decides to Die which was also good (in a different way.)
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A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway and poetry of Pablo Neruda-
Farewell to arms used to be my favorite in during college days. I read it a several times. Hemingway did a great job on creating a perfect blend of War and Love in same the book. I wish it had a happy ending
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I like Hemingway, he is great writer.
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@Owlbarn
I don't know. I always like to imagine Farewell to Arms could have had a happy ending, but a part of me knows that the way he wrote it is really perfect. Tragedy just feels truer to the story. (That's how I feel, anyway.) -
@ MidwestMom
Tragedy just feels truer to the story. That's true.
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There are a few. World War Z, by Max Brooks, Raw Shark Text by Steven Hall, and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. Currently reading Shark Text. -
Tain Bo Cuailnge- center-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales,which is Ireland's greatest epic
translated by Thomas Kinsella-
I have an entire bookcase with your name on it, I bet.
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Seriously? Oh I have to see those someday
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Cannery Row (Steinbeck)
EDIT: @Blaiser
Do you have a link to the Roberts profile in the New Yorker?-
M-Mom --
www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/22/090622fa_fact_collins
it's an abstract -- I think you need a subscription to see the full magilla, but it's from this past June 22 issue.
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Dhalgren by Samuel Delaney - it always puts me to sleep.
Laying on top of that is Black Tail magazine, which puts me to sleep even faster. -
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle.
It was one of my favorite books as a kid so when I saw the special edition at the bookstore, I just had to get it.-
A favorite of mine, as well -- my Fourth Grade teacher read it us, and now my kid's in Fourth Grade, so....! Didn't realize there was a special ed.
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I still have the whole series from when I was a kid and can't wait until my boys are old enough to read it. I absolutely adore them. I think the eldest is just about ready for Harriet the Spy.
I have five tall piles of books on my nightstand, as I've run out of bookshelf space. But right now I'm on a sci-fi kick and am currently reading Mars by Ben Bova.
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Technically, it's Jane Eyre.
It's an audio book in my Ipod I listen to to wind down in the evenings. -
Has anyone read Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding? I loved the strangeness contributed by the unique characters in the book.
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I haven't, but strangeness sounds promising. I like an offbeat character or eight.
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I've just finished a book on Carlos Casteneda and tonight on my nightstand, I have Tolstoy by Anna Karenina.-
Hey I read Carlos Castaneda too! Wow.
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The Last Self Help Book You'll Ever Need, by Paul Pearsall. Interesting and thought-provoking. -
The Spontaneous Healing of Belief - Gregg Braden
2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatyl - Daniel Pinchbeck
Both are tremendously adept authors with several texts worth your time. -
Me of Little Faith, by Lewis Black. I've been laughing my arse off along the way. -
Wild Wolf by Karen Whiddon -
Come Hither - common sense guide to kinky sex
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Life Choices, Life Changes - Develop your personal vision for the life you want -
i have a few. i started founders at work yesterday, and there is still dracula and think and grow rich sitting there waiting to be finished..... oh and i had forgotten there is also terrorism and the illuminati(reading it more slowly coz of the content) -
"Born of the Night" by Sherrilyn Kenyon. I've had it for two weeks and haven't started it yet. Life has been too crazy! -
Excuses Begone, The Art of Preserving, Gourmet Magazine, Today's Sudoku Puzzle and the Food Section, Sundays unopened insert with the sale papers and coupons, A BIG Universe Book (full of photos) and the TIVO control. It's like a book because of all the stories. -
The bible -
The Anarchist's Cookbook.
I mean the Bible.-
as long as it isn't BOTH
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mine too offended, hey how are you!
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Raising Steaks by Betty Fussell -
The savage detectives by Roberto Bolaño.
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"Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris.
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I embarrassed myself for days reading that in public. Giggling in restaurants, most unladylike.
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The Women's Room by Marilyn French and The Bhagavad-Gita -
The Writings of Thomas Paine
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Good one, especially for one who agitates.
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This is true
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Maurice from E.M Forster. Just started it.
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my teacher edition of Biology and World History, I hate new curriculum !
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