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#376

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/12/10 at 6:53pm

I couldn't put down the Kennedy Detail once I started it. That's basically what I did last weekend. Really interesting.

I'm currently reading a book called Any Human Heart which I heard a guy on the podcast "Books on the Nightstand" refer to as his favorite book. Ever. I'm not far enough into it to offer an opinion; the jury is still out.

And I'm listening to an Anna Quindlan novel, "Blessings", from a few years ago. The story is a tad far-fetched, but the characters she draws are interesting. I like listening to podcasts and audiobooks on certain days at work, when listening won't get in the way of doing some of the parts of the job that don't require full attention... sending letters, looking up reports... And by the same token, I don't want to listen to something seriously detailed or heavy in that setting either.

Sueleen Gay: "Here you go, Bitch, now go make some fukcing lemonade." 10/28/10

#377

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/12/10 at 6:57pm

Just finished Whoopi Goldberg's :Is It Just Me? Or is it nuts out there?". A quick read. The way it is written you can skip some chapters. It has a test you take throughout the book and get the results at the end. Somewhat repetitive at times but I agreed with a lot of what she had to say.

Taking a break until my copy of "Stephen Sondheim: Finishing the Hat" comes in.

Edit: Oh well, so much for a break. Just picked up the Sondheim book.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

Updated On: 11/12/10 at 06:57 PM

#378

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/13/10 at 12:00am

I'm re-reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows because the movie comes out in 6 days!!
I'm also trying to keep up with reading about 50 pages a night from Digging to America and Wind-Up Bird Chronicles. Why did I think it was a good idea to take two English classes?

You gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? -BP.

#379

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/13/10 at 11:11am

Reading: The WALKING DEAD BOOK 1 , 23 HOURS by DAVID WELLINGTON and MARY ANN in AUTUMN: Tales of the City....really enjoying them all.

#380

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/13/10 at 11:13am

Iflit, I just checked out the new Anna Quindlan from the library but I haven't started it yet.

KFTC!!!!!

#381

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/13/10 at 11:42am

Just completed, "In the Pathof Fallen Objects," by Andrew Smith.
This is a Young adult novel aimed at high schools kids.
It is a very dark and suspenseful novel about two brothers hitchhiking through the desert. I highly recommend it.

#382

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/13/10 at 6:10pm

Just started "Just Kids" Patti Smith's memoir about her and Robert Mapplethorpe.

'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'

#383

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/13/10 at 7:25pm

Is anyone on Goodreads?

#384

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/13/10 at 10:50pm

wexy, that sounds interesting.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

#385

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/14/10 at 3:55am

The Fry Chronicles, Stephen Fry's sequel to Moab is My Washpot. Among the anecdotes is Fry's first encounter with Stephen Sondheim, who just wanted him for his fax machine.

#386

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/14/10 at 10:57pm

I was in the middle of reading Wolves of the Calla (Stephen King, Dark Tower series) when Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow came in at the library. I hope I can still jump back in when I'm done with Washington. It could take me a shameful amount of time to finish this. I've had it for three weeks and I'm only 320 pages in. I have til November 29th, hopefully I don't need a third renew cycle.

I bought Hunger Games, and I really want to read it, but I'm gonna force myself to finish Wolves of the Calla first.

#387

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/15/10 at 4:16am

Oh, and a couple of weeks ago I got my filthy paws on a copy of Side Jobs so I could finally read Love Hurts and Aftermath. Good times.

#388

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/15/10 at 6:10am

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

#389

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/15/10 at 9:42am

uncageg, I just started but I'm enjoying it.

'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'

#390

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/15/10 at 9:47am

Just finished Grisham's The Confession, just started Ted Bell's latest in the Alex Hawke series, Warlord.

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

#391

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/15/10 at 10:07am

Justin Spring's "Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Sam Steward, professor, tattoo artist and sexual renegade".

Highly recommended.

#392

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/15/10 at 10:38am

Spider- I loved The Hunger Games triology! Cathching Fire was my favorite of the three.

#393

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/17/10 at 2:54am

I might've tried reading that, if it wasn't about teenagers killing each other horribly.

#394

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/17/10 at 5:38am

Its about so much more than teenagers killing each other. I started and finished Catching Fire this weekend. Can't wait to pick up Mockingjay.

#395

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/22/10 at 10:46pm

Well I am reading the Sondheim book but not straight through. I am picking shows and reading the "chapters" while listening to the music from the show. On the side I am reading Ricky Martin's "ME". I didn't expect a masterpiece but, oh boy. It is very repetitive. A lot of "Destiny" stuff and just going off on tangents about life and where he is and should be. He constantly repeats the same things but with different words. But then those words start to repeat. If I read or hear the word "destiny" one more time my head is going to explode! You have to get through all of that to get to the actual parts of his life that he throws in. I knew what I was really in for when he writes "There is a saying in my culture..". He then writes it in Spanish and then in English. The saying was "Everything happens for a reason". I was like...wha?!

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

#396

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/23/10 at 10:59am

I re-read Isherwood's A SINGLE MAN, which only made me detest that revolting film even more.

Started on Frank Norris' MCTEAGUE, good so far.

"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/

#397

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/23/10 at 11:54am

Also reading McTeague (re-reading, in my case). Trying to decide whether I want to teach it or not.

"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

#398

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/23/10 at 2:51pm

I just finished the companion book to the Faces of America series that Henry Louis Gates hosted on PBS a few months ago. Not exactly a heavy read, but incredibly interesting and surprisingly moving at points. (Krisi Yamaguchi's family's story was especially touching, I thought)

Now I'm reading Waiting for Godot.

ETA:
Now I'm about 90 pages into Robert Goolrick's A Reliable Wife. It's not terribly exciting so far, but I'm willing to stick it out in hopes it will get better.

Patti LuPone just recently recommended that book on her website.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

Updated On: 11/23/10 at 02:51 PM

#399

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/23/10 at 3:28pm

I just finished Anna Quindlen's Every Last One. It was quite a tearjerker.

KFTC!!!!!

#400

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/24/10 at 3:19am

I finished two books this week: Blessings by Anna Quindlan and Big Mouth and Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates. Neither are recent releases and I just picked them up and read them because they were there. Enjoyed both, although I wouldn' go out of my way to recommend either one.

Have moved on...two books in progress: The Emperor of Maladies (a biography of cancer...and yes, I would have read it anyway...) by Siddhartha something-or-another. It's well-researched and highly readable, and not as depressing as one might expect...at least not so far. The second thing I've got going is Catch 22 which was recently released as an eBook. I remember reading, and loving it, when I was in high school. So far it is living up to my expectations.

Sueleen Gay: "Here you go, Bitch, now go make some fukcing lemonade." 10/28/10

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