So far, very good.

Read 3 of the Alvin Maker series from Orson Scott Card before deciding I didn't want to go any further.

I'm reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver at the moment.

A month later, and I'm still reading A Song of Ice and Fire, on the last one now, but jesus they're long (and great...) books. Haven't had much time for audiobooks with work, so I'm only about halfway through Children of Dune.

Trying to figure out what I'm going to read after I finish A Feast for Crows.

I'm about 2/3rds of the way through this, and it is fantastic. Extremely reminiscent of The Stand, obviously minus the supernatural stuff. Very well reasoned, and the horrible, horrible things depicted in this book seem very plausible.

We should all hope that we don't live to see the next Midwestern quake. It won't be pretty.

I read Heat by Bill Buford last week. Good writing and subject, but not the most focused book overall.

Inspired by the Kansas City Literary Festival last weekend, I picked up some novels by Kansas City fiction writers.

I read Matthew Eck's (a creative writing teacher at UCM) buzz-generating novel[la], The Farther Shore, in one sitting. It was excellent, and increasingly relevant given the state of modern warfare where all sides are only loosely adhering to the rules of engagement.

I'm currently halfway through Whitney Terrell's (a creative writing teacher at UMKC) 2001 debut novel, The Hunstman. Damn, can this dude craft a sentence. Excellent writing. After I finish this, I'll move on to Terrell's second novel, The King of King's County.

After reading Odd I am now starting Forever Odd by Dean Koontz

Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves

Just started in on Stephen King's Duma Key. So far, it's nothing what I expected (although I wasn't sure what to expect).

ripped through some phillip k dick

"Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" - good
"Ubik" - better
"A Scanner Darkly" - best (his best, most personal writing by far on a sentence to sentence level, but "Do Androids Dream..." is the best story)...best depiction of addicts I've read, I think, (although David Foster Wallace writes about addiction in amazing, wierd, moving ways in "Infinite Jest")...and the dedication to his lost friends at the end really hammers it home...this guy was so far beyond all the pieties, politics, and sloganeering...

anyone who's read Scanner Darkly have an opinion on the movie? I wanted to read the book first...not to hi-jack...

I finally finished SHOOTER...good stuff. Poor bastard went home and his wife wanted a divorce immediately for his trouble.

Now I'm starting on the Close Encounters conference at MIT book.

I love barbara kingsolver's writings....

Right now I'm reading, Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.....so far, it's awesome

Yes, yes it is.

Finished The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
Currently reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

I guess I'm in a dystopian mood.

My wife tried to get me to read it, but it sounded a little girly for my tastes. I am a foodie, though, so I should probably give it a whirl for the Italy section if nothing else.

It's excellent. The quality of the prose itself warrants a read, regardless of subject matter.

Yeah, it sounds girly and Oprah-y and all, but it's a memior of someone shattered by a divorce, and her subsequent journey to find herself. Gilbert reconnects first with pleasure, then spirituality, then finds balance. It's pretty universal.