Currently Reading (Take 2)- Page 11

[wonkit]

Posted: 7/25/10 at 4:31pm

uncageg - let me know what you think about FREE FOR ALL. I can't seem to find anyone else who has read it.

I can't seem to get through any Scott Turow. Listened to Presumed Innocent on tape when it first came out. Kinda plods along.

Anyone else read the Lapham's Quarterly? I just got my first issue, and I am full of wonderment! And the subject is SPORTS AND GAMES, not one of my passions - yet.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/25/10 at 4:46pm

I'm reading Free For All now, too. Needed a break from novels for a bit. I'm about 200 pages from the end, up to the A Chorus Line chapter. I'm really loving it so far; I was engrossed from the beginning, and though I've found certain sections to be lacking, at least in terms of what I'd been hoping to read, overall I've found it really moving and inspiring -- both in terms of the story it tells, and in the way it's crafted. It's a bit long (and heavy to carry around!) but I definitely recommend it.

[wonkit]

Posted: 7/25/10 at 4:52pm

I'm reading FREE FOR ALL quickly because it is such a pain to carry! Not a commuter train book at all.

[uncageg]

Posted: 7/25/10 at 5:11pm

I decided to return the Harold Prince book and ran down and got Free For All. I am about a quarter of the Arthur Laurents book so I figure I should be starting Free For All this evening or tomorrow.

I posted that I just finished Anthony Rapps' "Without You". Did anyone read it? I am a bit out to lunch on parts of it.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 7/25/10 at 5:56pm

Letting Go Of The Person You Used To Be by Lama Surya Das,

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/25/10 at 6:03pm

uncageg, there should be a few threads on Anthony's book floating around the archives. I tried to search for the one I know I posted a long time ago, but for some reason when I click on the link, it turns up an empty thread. Maybe you will have better luck with the search.

[zepka102]

Posted: 7/25/10 at 6:17pm

HA! Last time I posted in this thread I was reading Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea. Now I'm reading Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang. Guess to stick with the pattern, Ms. Handler needs to write another book before next summer.

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/25/10 at 6:32pm

There's another book I'd love for you to read ...

[clever name]

Posted: 7/25/10 at 7:35pm

Just read Of Mice and Men

Now reading Bret Easton Ellis Imperial Bedrooms. I had no idea he had written a book with Clay and the others from Less Than Zero. I just happen to see it at the library. How did I not know that?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 7/26/10 at 11:19am

Just finishing up Under the Dome. Not sure what I'll read next. I have a TON of new books from which to choose. Maybe the new John Sandford Prey book. I love the Lucas Davenport series and have read them all. Or I might dive into Little Bee by Chris Cleave.

[zepka102]

Posted: 7/26/10 at 11:27am

Next in line, Besty, next in line...

[uncageg]

Posted: 7/26/10 at 11:47am

I am just trying to get through this Arthur Laurents book. It is driving me crazy. It's not long but it is so repetitive. He could have cut a lot out.

Edit/update: I bailed on the Laurents book 3/4 of the way through. It was giving me a headache!

Updated On: 7/26/10 at 11:47 AM

[Plum]

Posted: 7/26/10 at 10:16pm

March Violets, by Philip Kerr

[BroadwayGuy12]

Posted: 7/28/10 at 9:56pm

In the past two weeks I've read:
At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks
Breakfast at Madeline's by Matt Witten (cheesy murder-mysteries are my guilty pleasure!)
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Spending some time at the beach has really helped me catch up on my reading! I had to go to the bookstore today because I didn't bring enough books with me. Now I'm deciding whether to start Murder with Reservations by Elaine Viets or Tinkers by Paul Harding.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/28/10 at 10:01pm

I'm going to the library tomorrow and will post about what I get

[pushdabutton]

Posted: 7/28/10 at 10:07pm

I just started reading Kathy Griffin's Official Book Club Selection.

[zunit1234]

Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:01am

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee.

so.good.

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:47am

Of Mice And Men, for school.

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 7/29/10 at 1:13pm

STILL trying to finish Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows...although that battle may end tonight...only the epilogue left. It's been one of those things I'll read for a bit, put down, come back to (for the past two years) but with the movie(s) coming out, I figured I'd better finish it.

Within those two years, I also read "Dewey" (about the library cat...cute story, VERY poorly written), "The Devil Made Me Do it" (former porn star Georgina Spelvin's self-published memoir) and "Valley of the Dolls" for the first time in about 30 years.

Feeling the urge to hit some celebrity (auto)biographies.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 7/29/10 at 7:11pm

I'm reading this totally silly book called Insatiable by Meg Cabot. It is about this girl who is a writer for a soap opera, and they are going to introduce a vampire story line. In the meantime, there are women popping up all over the city totally drained of their blood, and the head of all vampires is in town, and she falls in love with him. Dumb, but entertaining.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/31/10 at 12:01am

Bought this today at Barnes and Noble

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/7/10 at 4:35pm

I just started Of Bees and Mist by Eric Satiawan and I'm utterly fascinated by it.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 9/7/10 at 4:37pm

Finished Pynchon's MASON & DIXON. Read some of Philip K. Dick's CLANS OF THE ALPHANE MOON, have moved on to Franzen's FREEDOM.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/7/10 at 4:49pm

I started "Freedom" this weekend and am enjoying it a lot. My favorite sentence so far: "Eliza was exactly half pretty."

[uncageg]

Posted: 9/7/10 at 4:53pm

Finally finished "Free For All..." last week. I didn't realize that Joseph Papp could be such a, for lack of a better term, jerk. It was one of those books you could read a "chapter" and come back to in a few days and not really forget anything. I wasn't crazy about the "ending". it just sort of ended. Lots of great stories and quotes though. I actually thought about buying it just to have around as kind of a reference book.

I have 3 books in line for the next 2 months...

Patti Lupone: a memoir
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics - Stephen Sondheim