Currently Reading (Take 2)- Page 18

[BowerytoBroadway]

Posted: 2/4/11 at 11:00pm

Hell yes! And Arcadia. love it

[In Buddy's Eyes]

Posted: 2/4/11 at 11:35pm

I just finished (minutes ago)Rock Hudson:His Story by Sara Davidson. It is rather dry, but good if you are interested in him.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 2/4/11 at 11:38pm

I just finished "Freedom". Totally get what you mean about the narrative shifts. I found myself thinking of a slightly burned cake- just when you take a bite and its good, you chew abit and get a burnt bitter taste- not bad enough to spit out so you swallow take another bite and its goood and then burnt and you get where I'm going. His eye for detail and his descriptions are marvels ( the description of the sisters' apt in New York was too spot on for me- i laughed out loud!) But then we get a whole long chapter on the son Joey and I still can't figure out what the caused the kid's epiphany. Patty both fascinated and aggrivated me ( something I think was intended). Walter w all his limitations was in the end the only "good" character. ( I really would have liked more about the daughter Jessica but the dang book would have rivaled War and Peace for length w one more character/chapter POV!

[uncageg]

Posted: 6/6/11 at 7:17pm

Just finished reading Mandelbaum's "Not Since Carrie..." and am currently reading "Cutting For Stone" by Abraham Verghese.

[AC126748]

Posted: 6/6/11 at 7:26pm

A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan and Caucasia by Danzy Senna.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 6/6/11 at 7:40pm

The Almost Moon, by Alice Sebold. I like it so far!

[uncageg]

Posted: 6/7/11 at 10:59am

Caucasia looks interesting.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/7/11 at 6:17pm

Finally getting around to The Handmaid's Tale and wondering why I never read it before. What a gorgeous book.

[AC126748]

Posted: 6/7/11 at 6:54pm

Caucasia is a very intriguing book. I am currently teaching a course of women's literature about passing, so I'm reading a lot of novels that deal with the subject.

[sally1112]

Posted: 6/8/11 at 3:22pm

Just started The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I like it, but i wanted a quick read to kick off my summer reading and it is more dense than I had assumed it would be.

[yodamarie78]

Posted: 6/8/11 at 4:23pm

uncageg, one of my professors in grad school has worked with Verghese for years as an editor. We read My Own Country in her class (Folklore and Medicine) and watched the movie. Cutting for Stone is on my post grad school reading list.

Right now I'm reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban trying to get through the series one more time before the last movie comes out.

[BroadwayGuy12]

Posted: 6/8/11 at 5:09pm

I'm currently working my way through The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks (some light summer reading), but have plenty to keep me occupied this summer. My local library recently had a summer book sale where I got 14 books for $8, and my copy of Catching Fire recently came in the mail. I can't wait to start that one -- I read The Hunger Games in March but didn't want to read the next one until I could get a paperback copy.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 6/8/11 at 8:32pm

Mitch Albom's "Five People You Meet in Heaven". Tripe. Utter tripe.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 6/8/11 at 10:22pm

The Mouse that Roared, by Leonard Wibberley

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 6/8/11 at 10:41pm

[SoonerOrLater]

Posted: 6/9/11 at 11:21am

Simultanously (as ever)
Falling Man by John Dellio-for work related to some other 9/11 work I may teach next year, so far it isn't gripping me but the moments he captures are quite effective.

The Versuvius Club-Mark Gatiss, finally now getting to read his novels and I love it! Fabulous wit. I have such an intellectual crush on the man anyway so I'll spare you the gushing.

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 6/9/11 at 3:36pm

I'm part of the way through A Singular Woman by Janny Scott. It's a biography of Obama's mother. I'm finding it to be fascinating. She had so many dimensions and lived an unusual life. She clearly had an extraordinary love for her children and was dedicated to them receiving the best possible education, but at the same time, she made choices, as a mother, that were (are) controversial. (Full disclosure: I'm "reading" this as an audiobook. I have a much longer commute now that we've moved and I get motion sickness when I try to read print. And YES, I'm a tad defensive because this is an ongoing argument in my family as to whether listening to an audiobook is really reading.)

[californiasnow]

Posted: 6/9/11 at 3:42pm

I'm reading "The Love Story Behind Gone with the Wind", about the relationship between Margaret Mitchell and John Marsh. Long (about 600 pages), but very readable and engrossing.

[uncageg]

Posted: 6/9/11 at 3:56pm

yoda, I was going to read "My Own Country" first but the evening I was told about these two books, standing in the SRO line for Book of Mormon, I didn't get a ticket and went over to see "The Normal Heart". I decided to read Cutting for Stone First after that. I didn't know there was a movie.

"Cutting for Stone" is good but pretty detailed. It is going to take me a while to get through it.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 6/9/11 at 4:34pm

I am in the middle of A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin. In the past 7 weeks I have read A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings. I have book 4, A Feast for Crows on deck. I can't put them down! Book 5, A Dance of Dragons comes out in July. It takes him YEARS between books, so after that, I will be a sad little pup.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/9/11 at 7:35pm

"Exit Ghost" by Philip Roth.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 6/9/11 at 7:38pm

"The Almost Moon, by Alice Sebold. I like it so far!"


That book was depressing, but it was good.

Right now I'm reading a book called Natural Born Charmer by Sarah Elizabeth Phillips. It's cute.

[AC126748]

Posted: 6/9/11 at 7:50pm

I quite liked Exit Ghost.

[uncageg]

Posted: 6/9/11 at 8:01pm

I have been wanting to read 'Some Sing, Some Cry" but while I was moving, the stores seemed to run out of the hardback and the paperback doesn't come out until September.

[CyCoSpAz2]

Posted: 6/9/11 at 8:04pm

City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1) by Cassandra Clare