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Question of the Day | 04/25/2008 12:00 am

What are you reading that you really love?

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Joni Evans
Today we thank wOw reader Elizabeth Bennett once again for the Question of the Day. If you’d like to share your suggestions for future questions, please send them to us by clicking here. We’d love to hear from you!
By Joni Evans on 04/25/2008 12:00 am
Liz Smith
Helen Mirren’s scrapbook memoir, just out, which is titled In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures from Atria Books (Simon & Schuster). This one is simply dazzling, all about how an up-by-the-bootstraps child of Russian parents became so famous that she has played Cleopatra, Queen Charlotte (King George III), Elizabeth I and Elizabeth II of Great Britain. And for all I know, next she’ll play Queen Maria of Romania!
By Liz Smith on 04/25/2008 12:00 am
Mary Wells
I am peculiar about what I love to read. In general, in life, I like mystical, spiritual, mysterious, mood, the unexpected, the daring, bravery, the edge. I like musicals, to be moved, surprised, I like make-believe, fantasy, the never seen before, escapes, emotional adventure, dreams, discovery, improvisation, flower towers, the way Mick dances, billowing curtains, boats in a distance — I am sure you know what I mean. But, it’s odd, when I read for pleasure I read someone like Paul Theroux — one of the clearest most straightforward writers! I have just finished reading his “Twenty-Two Stories” in the April issue of Harper’s and loved them. I have loved all his books since the Great Railroad Bazaar and have pre-ordered his latest, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star. He writes with very little of all I love as I said, above. He writes everything he sees with extraordinary vision but he moves clearly ahead and leaves the emotions up to you — you pull what he sees into emotions for yourself.
By Mary Wells on 04/25/2008 12:00 am
Julia Reed

I almost hate to admit what I’m reading right now because it is hardly high literature but so much fun. I’ve been on at least 50 planes in these crazy last two weeks and, at one point, I was in Dallas with a long layover (during the debacle with American Airlines, which I have always thought was the worst airline in America, if not the world, with really really mean desk agents and even meaner stewardesses). Anyway, I’d read three newspapers cover to cover and all my research on Cindy McCain (I was flying to San Diego to interview her) and I was desperate for a book but there were slim pickings in the newsstand. So I picked up one of Robert B. Parker’s Spenser mysteries and became immediately hooked. I swear I’ve read five or six more since then — I read one on a round trip shuttle ride to D.C. from NYC just yesterday. They are really smart and snappy. I love the dog, Spenser’s enforcer Hawk, the details on the eating and drinking, and most of all Spenser’s relationship with his very cool true love Susan.

I also have Loving Frank, the novel about Frank Lloyd Wright’s affairs with one of his clients in my bag, and I really want to read the latest translation of War and Peace (one of my very favorites), but I have a feeling that none of that is going to happen until I read like all 80 of the Spenser books. It has been way too long since I’ve had a guilty pleasure and these are really good ones.

By Julia Reed on 04/25/2008 12:00 am
Joan Juliet Buck
I’ve been relying on the meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Nothing like a wise emperor to hold your hand in bed. Then there’s Orhan Pamuk, whose prose you can ride like water. Philip Schultz, the poet, just won the Pulitzer for his book called Failure. The poems are extraordinary. None of this is a barrel of laughs.
By Joan Juliet Buck on 04/25/2008 12:00 am
Renee B
I have just finished Jane Juska’s second book, Unaccompanied Woman. It is wonderful! Go and get it!
By Renee B on 04/25/2008 12:31 am
Lynn Summers
The Last Lecture,” By Dr. Randy Pausch.
By Lynn Summers on 04/25/2008 12:31 am
Suzanne O
I am reading this book too, my heart goes out to him and his family. Isn’t his attitude about life is incredible ?
By Suzanne O on 04/25/2008 11:31 am
No GOP
Loved that. For those who’d like to see DOCTOR Randy Pausch’s last lecture on video, here he is. A completely wonderful, awesome, remarkable MAN in the very best sense of the world. Bless you and you family, Randy Pausch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
By No GOP on 04/25/2008 12:16 pm
Michael Salling
I’m loving that I’m reading the recommendations of Joni, Whoopi, Liz, Mary, Julia and Joan, and that I’m the first to comment on what they love reading. I’m excited to learn about www.kindle.com. Who knows, it may replace wowOwow as my favorite website.
By Michael Salling on 04/25/2008 12:32 am
RoseMerry Hoffman
What, you can’t you get wowOwow on the Kindle? That has to be fixed.
By RoseMerry Hoffman on 04/25/2008 5:59 am
Jozie Lee
Sorry, Michael, Kindle won’t replace wowOwow. Enhance, yes, but not replace. Wednesday afternoon I stopped by the Kindle kiosk at my local Borders. The book I sought, EPIPHANIES by Ann Jauregui, was out of stock. It’ll arrive Monday from Amazon. The wait totally frustrates me, hence, Kindle is on my Mother’s Day wish list.
By Jozie Lee on 04/25/2008 7:54 am
Michael Salling
Yes, ladies, I went to whoopi’s website and found out about kindle — can’t afford and wouldn’t have the time for it if I could. I think it would make a great gift for my son at nyu tho, so I’m gonna start saving up to get him one. mucho mahalos
By Michael Salling on 04/25/2008 8:45 am
No GOP
Kindle would be great for travel, or like you mention at school so not a lot of room, but I prefer a book in hand. Speaking of which, for those interested, lists of the 100 most influential books in history, and the 100 best novels: http://www.adherents.com/people/100_novel.html#100Books Which reminded me of on the best books ever read. “The Passion of the Western Mind.: Ideas that shaped our world view. Richard Tarnas. http://www.amazon.com/Passion-Western-Mind-Understanding-Shaped/dp/03453…
By No GOP on 04/27/2008 3:43 am