6's: Books, links, more books

6 books everyone (except me) seems to be reading these days:

1. The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
2. The Virgin Suicides (Jeffrey Eugenides)
3. Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
4. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
5. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
6. Everything from Oprah's Book Club

6 highly popular links at the moment:

1. Panda kindergarten
2. Seemingly phallic sports cover page photo (and the defending argument)
3. "A Meditation on the Speed Limit" (the approaching shot from the freeway bridge is incredible)
4. The Marimba Ponies (kids aged 4-12 performing without a conductor, it's mind-blowing)
5. The Definitive Shake soundboard (the Drizzle Rant is particularly coo)
6. Personal air vehicle! (a.k.a., flying car)

6 (grown-up) books I am currently reading or just finished reading:

1. Bee Season (Myla Goldberg)
2. The Penelopiad (Margaret Atwood) - finished
3. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Joanne Greenberg)
4. The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
5. The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom) - finished
6. I lied. I don't have a sixth book. Books I finished a good while ago: Oryx & Crake (Margaret Atwood), The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon), Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Susannah Clarke), every single book David Sedaris has penned

Comments

[Matthew Sheppard]

The Time Traveler's Wife and Life of Pi are both very good.

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[van]

I don't really keep track of the "what you should be reading right now" lists, so it's a hell of a bizarre coincidence that I just finished reading The Time Traveller's Wife. And it's not as though it were thrust into my hands; it was sitting snuggled away in amongst all the other books - no special stickers or signs or anything of the like.

Heck, maybe it just *is* a good book? I know it definitely moved me.

Oh and if it's relevant, I came here via boingboing.

[Forge]

Ditto on the Atwoods, and absolutely loved Jonathan Strange. Is it a grown-up book? (Oh, the horror. See, I've always been afraid to, e.g., read the Phillip K. Dick grown-up books...)

I've had TTW sitting unread on this shelf here for weeks. What a cosmic coincidence. Must read it now.