Currently Reading (Take 2)- Page 7
Currently Reading (Take 2)
#150re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/27/09 at 3:01pmShanghai Girls by Lisa See - so far, so good.
"This show had the WORST magnets on Broadway!"
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#151re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/27/09 at 3:44pmI'll be finishing HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE in the next day or so. Then I'll move on to something to fill the time until Pynchon's INHERENT VICE comes out next week.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
#152re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/27/09 at 3:46pm"Saving Fish From Drowning" Amy Tan
"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#153re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/27/09 at 6:52pmJack of Fables, by Bill Willingham, a spinoff from his excellent Fables series. I'm not enjoying the Jack stories nearly as much as I do Fables, but maybe it'll get better as it goes along.
#154re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/27/09 at 7:15pm
I am SUCH a teenage girl....ya know....with an extra appendage. I just bought:
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#155re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/27/09 at 7:23pmSetting Limits in the Classroom - Robert MacKenzie, Ed.D.
"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. "
--Sueleen Gay
dramadude2
Broadway Star Joined: 6/29/07
#156re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/27/09 at 8:45pm
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
So good.
No one wants to see a musical called Thoroughly Modern Mildred.
#157re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/27/09 at 9:40pm
Just started the first Sookie Stackhouse book .... not the world's greatest writing sylist, but readable enough.
2016 These Paper Bullets (1/02) Our Mother's Brief Affair (1/06), Dragon Boat Racing (1/08), Howard - reading (1/28), Shear Madness (2/10), Fun Home (2/17), Women Without Men (2/18), Trip Of Love (2/21), The First Gentleman -reading (2/22), Southern Comfort (2/23), The Robber Bridegroom (2/24), She Loves Me (3/11), Shuffle Along (4/12), Shear Madness (4/14), Dear Evan Hansen (4/16), American Psycho (4/23), Tuck Everlasting (5/10), Indian Summer (5/15), Peer Gynt (5/18), Broadway's Rising Stars (7/11), Trip of Love (7/27), CATS (7/31), The Layover (8/17), An Act Of God (8/31), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (8/24), Heisenberg (10/12), Fiddler On The Roof (11/02), Othello (11/23), Dear Evan Hansen (11/26), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (12/21) 2017 In Transit (2/01), Groundhog Day (4/04), Ring Twice For Miranda (4/07), Church And State (4/10), The Lucky One (4/19), Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (5/16), Building The Wall (5/19), Indecent (6/01), Six Degrees of Separation (6/09), Marvin's Room (6/28), A Doll's House Pt 2 (7/25) Curvy Widow (8/01)
#158re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/27/09 at 10:05pm
Just finished Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Didn't like it as much as I like his short fiction/novellas.
Started The Time Traveler's Wife last night and I am loving it. I cannot put it down.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#159re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/29/09 at 10:00amThe Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. "
--Sueleen Gay
#160re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/29/09 at 11:17amsally - Time Traveler's Wife is, I think, my third favorite book of all time. I have read it 4 times now and am going to read it again before the movie comes out. LOVE IT!
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
broadwaytourist
Featured Actor Joined: 4/18/07
#161re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/29/09 at 10:49pm
The Unlikely Disciple - Kevin Roose - his memoir of spending a semester at Falwell's Liberty University - fascinating - went to a conservative Baptist college and this rings true
Godless - Dan Barker - miles away from my conservative college education
Starting HP and the Deathly Hallows
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#162re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/31/09 at 8:24amThe Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. "
--Sueleen Gay
#163re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/31/09 at 11:14am
ANGRY HOUSEWIVES Eating Bon Bons - Lorna Landvik
Next on my list:
Are you there vodka? It's me, Chelsea
and
The Time Traveler's Wife
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#164re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/31/09 at 11:46am
It took me a few tries to get into the Time Traveler's Wife, but once I did, I loved it.
I just started The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman. It's a bit strange.
KFTC!!!!!
#165re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/31/09 at 12:45pm
Just finished "The Road to Woodstock" by Michael Lang. It's a fascinating look at rock music before it became such a huge corporate sponsored enterprise, though it marked the beginning of corporate rock era. The logistics of the event were incredible. Lang, the primary organizer of the event, follows the story from its inception to its aftermath.
Anyone interesting in seeing how the massive festival was organized on the fly should be interested in this.
" Deep down inside, we are all wolf/dogs at heart." Phyllis Rogers Stone
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#166re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/31/09 at 2:26pmErm, so I just read The Time Traveler's Wife in under 24 hours. I have one more weekend to kill and am now out of books so off to the bookstore I go. Any suggestions?
"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. "
--Sueleen Gay
#167re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/31/09 at 5:36pmThe Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University by Kevin Roose and Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. On deck: Zeitoun and A Short History of Women.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#168re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/31/09 at 6:17pm
How did you like it, Colleen?
Have you read, The Book of Lost Things? I thought that was a great book
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#169re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 8/1/09 at 2:07am
Just finished the "War and Pieces" trade of Fables. Wow. Just...wow. It's pretty much what the comic has been leading up to since it started, and I really have to wonder where it's going to go from here.
Also just finished Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy, so next in my pile is apparently...The Lost Continent, by Bill Bryson. Am also going to continue my very slow progress through Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in French. (A wand is une baguette magique!)
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#170re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 8/1/09 at 12:40pm
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire - Rafe Esquith
ETA: Sorry DJ, I was on my Blackberry when I posted this, so I missed your questions. I did enjoy The Time Traveler's Wife very much but was a bit unprepared for the way it picked at the scabs of old wounds.
"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. "
--Sueleen Gay
Updated On: 8/2/09 at 12:40 PM
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#171re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 8/1/09 at 2:27pmThat was a fast read. Now onto "Olive Kitteridge" - Elizabeth Strout
"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. "
--Sueleen Gay
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#172re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 8/1/09 at 10:27pmI'm not really enjoying The Lost Continent as much as I did Notes From a Small Island. I'm thinking about switching to The Confusion, since I'm determined to finish the Baroque Cycle (has anything ever been more appropriately named?) someday. Oh, Neal Stephenson. Don't ever change.
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#173re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 8/2/09 at 9:02amThe Evolution of God - Robert Wright
"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. "
--Sueleen Gay
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#174re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 8/2/09 at 12:02pmI just started Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding (who wrote Bridget Jones Diary). It's pretty cute so far.
KFTC!!!!!
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