What are you reading?

[Laura]

Instead of making a ton of threads about what books you've been reading ... you should reply to here. Woot.

I'm reading "Baboons: survivors of the African continent" by Louise Barrett; it's a factual book on the most unappreciated yet not unknown monkey. It has some really interesting facts in it.

[indridcold]

I think I am going to read the Shining now. If you don't know who wrote it, you don't deserve to be around books.

[jigglytuffy]

To be honest, I'm not reading anything at the moment. I just finished re-reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince though.

[indridcold]

That book was lacking. It was good and all... Just didn't seem to have as much detail, or depth as the other books.

[jigglytuffy]

Are you kidding me? There was TOO much info. Normaly I hate re-reading books, but I had to go back and re-read that one. It's not my fav. HP book, but I think there was enough info in it.

[Sharon]

[glow=purple,2,300]i'm reading a book called "The Snow Bride" it's quite humorous[/glow]

[Laura]

I finished the baboon book. Quite interesting facts I'm on to reading Christina Rossetti: Selected Poems

[fightingirishman]

Well, I'm definitely nowhere near the pace I need to be for 100 books in a year, but I'm currently reading a history book called "On Stalin and Stalinism". Heck, if you want to get technical, I've also been working on a biography of Tommy Douglas for months. Maybe I should read some of that today too.

[indridcold]

I lied.

When I was on my way home from Czech, I left my book on the plane, and my brother re-bought it for me for Christmas.

Tis called Faith of the Fallen, by Terry Goodkind.

It's the sword of truth series. AMAZING series. I suggest to all who like fantasy books.

[Laura]

I recently finished A Slipping-Down Life by Anne Tyler (second read through) and now I'm starting And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.

[indridcold]

Finished Faith of the Fallen, then I read Pillars of Creation, and now I am reading Naked Empire.

[fightingirishman]

I just finished a biography of Tommy Douglas, as well as "A Complicated Kindness" by Miriam Toews. I'm still working on the Stalin biography as well as "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and "King Lear" by Shakespeare.

[fightingirishman]

Okay, so an update on this. For English class, I've read Whale Music by Paul Quarrington (messed up but awesome), Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates (it was alright, nothing special) and some short stories from Storm Glass by Jane Uruqhart (super-feministy and not really up my alley). As for my personal reading, I'm still working on King Lear, haven't really read the Stalin biography and started the Theban trilogy by Sophocles, but I'm only into the first play Oedipus Rex. My friend and I might read the Bible this summer, just to know what's in it, and we're looking at starting a book club as well, because people don't seem to read anymore.

[bapiau]

dtm said:

Well, I'm definitely nowhere near the pace I need to be for 100 books in a year

I'm so not on target either I've only read 16 books so far *sobs* Though I do get 4 months off soon- plenty of time to catch up. Currently I'm reading "Guards! Guards!" Terry Pratchett is Loff.

[Sharon]

I haven't really read in awhile lol but i'm starting to get into audio books i think. see, i have to commute 45 min. every day to work (plus another 45 home) so i've got time then to pop in a cd and listen to a book

I've been getting into James Patterson's stuff.

My sister-in-law gave me his book "Roses Are Red" (Great book) and finished it on the flight back from Boston (yep i went to Boston for a weekend!) Then I borrowed the audio book from the library titled "Violet's are Blue" very cool and messed up sequel i think.

[fightingirishman]

Yeah, I was really into James Patterson a couple years ago. I ended up reading a lot of his stuff. Lately, the main stuff I've been reading is for school, since I've had some trouble reading the things I've really wanted to read (mainly because of time constraints and being tired and what-have-you :S).

[Sharon]

yeah his stuff are great. the library has a limited selection when it comes to audio books though so i haven't been able to hear anymore of Patterson's stuff.

presently, i'm listening to Mitch Albom's "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" it's pretty good I think. I'm on disc 3.

[indridcold]

I am reading Red Dragon.

[Sharon]

I'm reading two books at the moment, Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Mary Higgins Clark's Two Little Girls in Blue

[NotSoPerfect]

I just finished Life of Pi (which is FAB if you like survival stories) by Yann Martel and I'm on to Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie.

[Absinthe]

I just finished reading Impulse by Ellen Hopkins - it's written entirely in verse and it is fantastic. I would also suggest her book Crank - also written entirely in verse. Right about the same time I finished Impulse, I also finished up the graphic novel Persepolis by Majori Satrapi - a non-fictional graphic piece about growing up during the Islamic revolution in Iran.

The next thing on my list to read is Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde - the 4th novel in the Thursday Next series.

[Cullen]

Im currently reading Catch 22 by...uhhh hold on...(grabs book)..Joseph Heller
recently ive read the 5 people you meet in heaven and ive re-read Through the Looking Glass (alice in wonderland for those who know not your great books)

[thecrazybeautiful]

I am currently reading the Bible.

That's a shocker

[Absinthe]

The Bible is actually constantly on my "currently reading" list, though I don't read it as often as I should.

Why is it such a shocker? Not religious at all? Even if you aren't, the Bible is one of those "must read" things. It's actually on pretty much every "Books You Should Read Before Entering College" list.

[fightingirishman]

I've been at the Bible for a year and a bit now, and I'm still not out of Genesis, haha. I'm also chipping away at State and Revolution by Lenin.