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#251

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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.

#252

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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.

A work of art is an invitation to love.

#253

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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.

#254

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

#255

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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

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

#256

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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.

A work of art is an invitation to love.

#257

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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.

::bust a move::

#258

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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

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

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22

#259

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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?

#260

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

#261

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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

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

::bust a move::

#262

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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!

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

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

#263

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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

March Violets, by Philip Kerr

#264

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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.

#265

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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

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

"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2

#266

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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

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

#267

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee.

so.good.

Witty signature to come.

#268

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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

Of Mice And Men, for school.

"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop

#269

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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.

#270

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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.

KFTC!!!!!

#271

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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

Bought this today at Barnes and Noble

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2

#272

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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

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

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

#273

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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.

"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/

#274

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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."

#275

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

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