Book I'd Like to Read

I'd like to read Mystery Writers of America Presents The Prosecution Rests: New Stories about Courtrooms, Criminals, and the Law by Inc. Mystery Writers of America (Author), Linda Fairstein (Contributor).

There are 19 short stories contribute by some of the best US mystery including James Grippando and Joel Goodman.

Anybody else wish they'd add a "What I'd Like to Read" category on LT?

I think that would be wonderful. I wish we could separate our libraries into mini-libraries...I would have a "Books I've Read This Year" library (which is what I'm doing), a "Books I Own" library, and a "Books I Want to Read" library. Tags just don't give me enough visual separation at once. I'm a bit OCD.

One of these days I am going to read Moby Dick. Not out of some deep-seated desire to hang out with Ahab or an inner longing for the works of Melville; no, I am going to read it and finish it just to spite a well-read friend of mine who couldn't get through the entire thing. I want bragging rights, dammit.

You don't understand. This man has read everything. Everything, I tell you. I don't care that he has had several decades more than me to read what he likes. I will not be made to feel inferior to a former Math student. Melville will be mine.

I know! I always try to pick the publication date closest to when I actually read the book.

All of them.

This is the one aspect of the Visual Bookshelf application on Facebook that I prefer to Library Thing - it lets you categorise your books as "Already read", "Reading now" or "Want to read".

On my "Want to read" list at the moment are:

The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? by F. F. Bruce
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Evil Seed by Joanne Harris
Fatherland by Robert Harris
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
A Fine-Tuned Universe by Alister McGrath
Olympos by Dan Simmons
Endymion by Dan Simmons

Eruntane - I started The Idiot, but alas, got sidetracked by Outlander. It had a lot of promise, and I was intrigued as to how it might end.

Kira-Kira was good. It started very well, but kind of ran out of steam as the main problem increased. The climax was treated a little flatly, but it was a sweet read nonetheless.

Thanks, Miss Teacher. I'll bear that in mind next time I'm book shopping :-)

For the record, since I posted this list I've begun and abandoned American Gods (which had completely failed to grip me by the end of Chapter Two), begun and finished Dolores Claiborne (which gripped me so efficiently I had to bring it to work in order to read under the desk when my boss left the room!) and started Olympos (which is great so far, but will take me a while to get through because it's a weighty volume.)

I'd like to read War and Peace sometime before I die. I have a copy, but I know that once I start it, that's it for reading anything else for months!

Probably the one book that I most want to read, have started at least 3 times, but haven't finished is Brothers Karamazov. One day.

#8 American Gods gets better after the, I agree, slow beginning. It is not however as all around amazing as some of my friends had led me to believe.

The Dollmaker by Harriet Arnow, which became Jane Fonda's Emmy and possibly her greatest performance. I've started it two or three times, and it was really quite good, but for whatever reason each time I got involved in something else and put it down.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman