What book are you currently reading?

[gesler0811]

I just started reading "The Serpent and the Rainbow" by Wade Davis. A nonfiction book about zombies? I'm there!

It was made into a movie, directed by Wes Craven. I hated the film, but you might want to watch it after you finish the book.

--Warren

Thanks for the info. I'm only a few chapters into it, but I'm guessing it must get pretty creepy/gruesome if Wes Craven directed a film version of it. So far the book is pretty good. He's a researcher studying pharmacological (sp?) uses of exotic plants and goes to Haiti to resrearch if there is some kind of organic poison that is used to make the Haitian zombis.

[ann33]

I just finished Trust Your Eyes by Linwood Barclay. If you love mystery thrillers, you will enjoy this book as it has many twists and turns.

[LMGilbert]

I'm re-reading the Moomin series by Tove Janson. Along with it I'm also looking at the comic strip collections published by Drawn & Quarterly. The first book, never before available in English I think, is now out in England. Will it ever get here? I'm way more excited about this than about Rowling's new non-Harry Potter novel.

[G-Girl2]

I'm reading the Wool omnibus by Hugh Howey. The first part was an excellent stand alone story so when he recently offered the further chapters in one volume for $.99 I went for it.

[tinachris]

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes - great characterization, Barnes writes a beautiful book about four student friends and a mystery surrounding the suicide of one of them. Highly recommend this book.

[tinachris]

I read this book some years ago and truly enjoyed it. Wade Davis (Canadian living on the West Coast, I am proud to say) is a great writer and has written some very interesting books on his subject as an antropologist. The Serpent .. is certainly not a scary zombie book. Dont hesitate to read it.

[louiseh87]

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes - great characterization, Barnes writes a beautiful book about four student friends and a mystery surrounding the suicide of one of them. Highly recommend this book.

I heard that on the radio. Admittedly it was slightly abridged, but I remember enjoying the story and hating the ending.

Just finished Paul Magrs' Beyond Wildthyme! . It was full of different narrative voices and timelines, and stream of conciousness. Going to recover by picking up where I left off in Ursula le Guin's Lavinia, which will hopefully remain largely linear and singular.

[LMGilbert]

Hatchet, by Gary Paulson. I think I'm going on a survival-story binge.

[louiseh87]

On to The Heir of Night by Helen Lowe.

[LMGilbert]

Just started a new Ruth Rendell story, The St. Viti Society, and as usual, can't put it down for long.