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I am reading 'Alone in Berlin' by Hans Falada (I think the American title is 'Every Man Dies Alone').

I am currently reading A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain.

Marxist Left Review #4. the 2 articles in this issue that are my favourites are the one on australian racism and the one on riots in australian history although i wish the one on riots went into aboriginal rights riots, refugee rights riots and gay liberation riots but it does state that there wouldn't be enough space to go into those and i find the recount of a police riot and its decription as non-reactionary contentious.

Girl in Translation-Jean Kwok

When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition. Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.

Through Kimberly's story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world that we rarely hear about. Written in an indelible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and world only half understood, Girl in Translation is an unforgettable and classic novel of an American immigrant-a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.

Bleak House - Charles Dickens

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Mindbody Prescription and The Autobiographer's Handbook

Ivan Goncharov - The Precipice

Rereading The Man Who Japed by Phil K. Dick

Better than I remember it. Nice short chapters.

I've got Plato's Republic on the go too. Bathroom Book

Also reading Under a Vedic Sky by Bill Levacy

Just finished 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne.

Pride and Prejudice! I am on chapter 19 at the moment.

Harry Potter 1

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Autobiography of Frederick Douglas. Mostly for a summer homework type thing.

The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter

One Piece East Blue Omnibus vol. 1-2-3

I really like One Piece, it's a fun light hearted shonen manga, like Dragon Ball & Doctor Slump.