<p>I am reading Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, and the Best Plays of 1980s and 1990s. </p>
<p>My 13 year old son just finished Ark Angel by Anthony Horowitz. My 15 year old daughter just finished The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner and is now rereading it to try to understand it. </p>
<p>What are you reading? Anything recommendable?</p>
<p>The World is Flat, by Thomas Freidman. It's about globalization in business. So far it's great.</p>
<p>Son is taking a history course and reading a pile of books on WWI, and for pleasure Forever Odd by Koontz, easy summer reading.</p>
<p>Devil in the Details, by Jennifer Traig. It is her memoir of growing up with OCD and is very funny.</p>
<p>I have a huge pile of books I want to read. I don't know which I'll do next. If I feel ambitious, I'll finally read Frazer's The Golden Bough. I love studying mythology, so I don't know why I haven't done this yet.</p>
<p>Blindness by Jose Saramago</p>
<p>The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky, currently</p>
<p>I have a "thing" with Russian authors, so I read most anything I can get my hands on. Nikolai Gogol and his wonderfully humerous and delicious short shories are some of my favorites, and they get read and re-read every few months.</p>
<p>I thought I would recommend a book that has been a favorite of my family's and mine for many years: Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis. It is a wonderful read.</p>
<p>Katharos, have you read Gogol's Lost Souls yet? It is a great read, although a bit anticlimactic at the end (not really finished or something -- I can't remember; but you read it for the journey, not the ultimate destination!)</p>
<p>I think my next Russian attempt will be Anna Karenina. I also have Chekhov's short stories to do.</p>
<p>Oh, I have too many books and I am buying faster than I can read (particularly after discovering Sudoku :) ) I figure I can never die because I have too much left to read ...</p>
<p>DianeR-</p>
<p>Yes, I have indeed - multiple times, in fact! The end was disappointing, though, but that is because it wasn't the end . . . All of the different types of people Chichikov encounters is what I like about it. Gogol is sheer genius, and I am so glad I chanced upon his literature one day in the bookstore.</p>
<p>Anna Karenina also is on my list. It has been for many, many years, but The Brothers Karamazov was on it first, so I am going in order. I hope I get quite a bit of reading done before college starts in the fall.</p>