What Are You Reading?

[OberonOrion]

Song of the Lioness book 2
"In the Hand of the Goddess" by Tamora Pierce

[Kylark1129]

Tami Hoag - Dark Horse

[Redlorry]

Originally Posted by donnaf

Just finished Miss Peregrin's Home for Peculiar Children.

That's one of the most intriguing books on my wish list, what did you think of it?

I am still reading Tropic of Capricorn and drawing a range of funny or flabbergasted looks from fellow commuters as they spy the cover.

[Candy]

I just got finished reading Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian
It's a shame that the series is over now, twas my favorite.

[Angel Tikaani]

Some books on the civil war.

[Nadja]

Re-reading All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, after several years. I'd forgotten just what a powerful read it is.

[donnaf]

Originally Posted by Redlorry

That's one of the most intriguing books on my wish list, what did you think of it?

I am still reading Tropic of Capricorn and drawing a range of funny or flabbergasted looks from fellow commuters as they spy the cover.

I read it straight thru while my Hubby was driving us to Houston. I really enjoyed it and the pictures they included added to the appeal.

[donnaf]

The Great Gatsby.

[Redlorry]

Originally Posted by donnaf

The Great Gatsby.

Another from my reading list! We should compare libraries.

[choxie]

Originally Posted by donnaf

Just finished Miss Peregrin's Home for Peculiar Children. Halfway thru Ender's Game.

Love both of those books. The pictures in Miss Peregrin's were so fitting and kind of creepy.

[fishstic]

I am reading three books:
I am the messenger
Amityville Horror
and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

I am hoping to get the series that starts with Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in the mail sometime within the next week I ordered them from Double Day book club and they mailed out either yesterday or the day before via USPS.

Of course with participating in Camp NaNoWriMo I don't have much time to read. but that's okay. I make time and call them research since of the ones I am currently reading Amityville Horror is the only one not written in first person.

[Marshin]

I just finished The Stranger by Albert Camus. It was excellent. I'll probably read some more of his books this year if I can make it through the other books I've already bought and the rest of the WoT :P

Up next: Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan.

[Dela Eden]

Originally Posted by donnaf

The Great Gatsby.

I've read that - four times. I didn't like it much the first time, but loved it after that. Probably a good thing because we studied it for English, and it would have been awkwardly boring if I didn't like it.

I'm still reading Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, another book for English, which I'm going to fail.

[Ephemera]

Unfortunately, and I'm not proud of this, I'm reading Fifty Shades Of Grey. I don't even know why. Curiosity? I don't actively engage in reading Twilight or porn. The book actually mentions Tess Of The D'Urbervilles quite a lot.

[Kevin Fernandez]

Yes when plays are performed, we ll understand it better than reading it

[Redlorry]

Originally Posted by choxie

The pictures in Miss Peregrin's were so fitting and kind of creepy.

That's what drew me. Can anyone tell me if the pictures are shown in the Kindle version are any good?

40 pages from the end of Tropic of Capricorn and desperate for it to end so I can pick up something a little lighter.

[Ollzie]

Originally Posted by Dela Eden

I've read that - four times. I didn't like it much the first time, but loved it after that. Probably a good thing because we studied it for English, and it would have been awkwardly boring if I didn't like it.

Gatsby gets better the second time? Awesome! I've read it before, but I am almost certain I will be reading it again for school. This is comforting news.


I am currently reading A Portrait of a Lady by Henry James and Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. The latter is very enjoyable, but I find the former a tad dull and boring. I have been trying to finish it for nearly a month and cannot seem to get into it.

[bmj851]

I've just finished reading the "Night Huntress" series and am working on re-reading Gargantua and Pantegruel by Rabellais as well as Jane Eyre.

[donnaf]

Originally Posted by Dela Eden

I've read that - four times. I didn't like it much the first time, but loved it after that. Probably a good thing because we studied it for English, and it would have been awkwardly boring if I didn't like it.

I'm still reading Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, another book for English, which I'm going to fail.

I finished The Great Gatsby. I need to reread it. I think a lot of what he was trying to say went over my head due to the difference in the way people say things today versus how they expressed themselves back in the 1920s. I did like his descriptions but felt sometimes he overdid them.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles--I tried that one and just couldn't do it.

[LoneWolf93]

I mainly write fantasy and romance novels so all the books i read are in those genres. I recently read Immortal City which was brilliant but i have stepped out of my comfort zone since i started reading Fifty Shades of Grey; a book which i find i am not too keen on for various reasons. I am going to re-read a series called Night World though because it is one of my favourites. x

[Redlorry]

Cupcake by Mariah Jones

[Dela Eden]

Originally Posted by donnaf

I finished The Great Gatsby. I need to reread it. I think a lot of what he was trying to say went over my head due to the difference in the way people say things today versus how they expressed themselves back in the 1920s. I did like his descriptions but felt sometimes he overdid them.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles--I tried that one and just couldn't do it.

Yeah, that's why it's better the second, third and fourth time. It actually gets better the more times you read it. Partially because you actually understand it the second time.
As for Tess, I need more action!!! I'm one hundred pages in and the only main events I can think of are an argument, eating strawberries and a horse dying. Currently, Tess is asleep. I think I may be by the time I finish it. Hopefully it'll get better as I read it the second time too, or I won't survive this next year of the English course. We were supposed to do Frankenstein! That would be far better!

Originally Posted by Ollzie

Gatsby gets better the second time? Awesome! I've read it before, but I am almost certain I will be reading it again for school. This is comforting news.

Didn't like it much the first time then? Yes, that's what our English teacher told us once our group read it for GCSE and decided we all hated it. Good thing, because we had to do it for A Level too. Those three times would have been very boring otherwise!

[A.r.p.]

The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace

[Jinjonator]

Originally Posted by A.r.p.

The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace

How is it? I'm planning on checking it out after Infinite Jest.

[A.r.p.]

It's pretty similar to IJ in a lot of ways -- zany, funny, unconventional, nonlinear, absurd, etc -- but it's a lot less difficult. I'm finding it to be very much enjoyable (pg 100) and I recommend it to DFW fans.

[Nadja]

Old-fashioned poetry (you know, the kind that rhymes)

[Redlorry]

The Shoplifting Mother's Club by Geraldine Fonteroy

[CandraH]

I gave up on The Illuminatus Trilogy. It's just too ridiculous. So I'm back to Naked Lunch and also just started a graphic novel - Northlanders book one. The art looks pretty good so far.

[Nadja]

Just read a lovely, sad little poem called 'Seen from a Train' by Cecil Day-Lewis.

[OberonOrion]

Darth Paper Strikes Back (an origami Yoda book)
by Tom Angleberger