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#476

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 7/19/11 at 1:26pm

Completely sucked into the Hunger Games series. I actually wanted to stop about 1/4 of the way through the first because I was so upset over the idea, but definitely found it is so much more. Just read the second book in 3 days and hopefully starting the third in a few more.

::bust a move::

#477

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 7/19/11 at 1:36pm

I just finished The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern. It was great.

KFTC!!!!!

#478

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 7/21/11 at 12:48am

I am STILL reading "Cutting for Stone". So much back story and history to read through. I hope there is a reason for this because as it stands now, for me, he could have cut most of it out and just focused on the story of the twins. I have started reading Augusten Burroughs "Possible Side Effects" as a bit of a vacation from "...Stone". Just picked up "Some Sing, Some Cry" today at STRAND in hardback for 12 bucks.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

#479

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 7/21/11 at 1:25am

Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo

It's a great (and deeply saddening) story, but the stream of consciousness style of writing is difficult to deal with, especially since I am spending so much time reading clear and concise textbooks.

"I will not cease from mental fight, nor shall my sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land."

#480

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 7/21/11 at 8:54am

Ted Kennedy's memoir, True Compass.

Updated On: 7/21/11 at 08:54 AM

#481

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 8/16/11 at 10:20am

Good God. I finished GAME OF THRONES, and went on to CLASH OF KINGS, and am now halfway through STORM OF SWORDS, which is one of the few books I've ever been tempted to describe as being "bitchin!"

I have FEAST FOR CROWS and DANCE WITH DRAGONS on the shelf. Yow.

"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/

#482

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 8/16/11 at 10:32am

I'm currently taking suggestions for something to take on vacation with me next week. I'd like it to be relatively mindless and entertaining--I'm just finishing up teaching a rather intense summer class, so I'd like to leave anything heavy on the shelf for a while--but preferably not contain vampires or wizards of any kind. I'm open to any suggestions that the BWW readers might have.

"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

#483

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 8/16/11 at 12:09pm

I'm currently reading Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. I'm having a difficult time getting into it but we'll see.

"I will not cease from mental fight, nor shall my sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land."

Updated On: 8/16/11 at 12:09 PM

#484

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 8/16/11 at 12:51pm

Not reading it yet...but SO excited about Jeffrey Eugenides new book "The Marriage Plot". It comes out in early October and I can't wait to get it!

"This show had the WORST magnets on Broadway!"

#485

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 8/16/11 at 12:59pm

The first chapter of the new Eugenides book was published in the New Yorker about a year ago. Using that as an indication, I think it's going to be terrific.

#486

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 8/16/11 at 1:27pm

I just finished One Day by David Nicholls. Great book.

KFTC!!!!!

#487

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 8/16/11 at 2:16pm

Nanny Returns...the sequel to The Nanny Diaries. Picked it up for a dollar at Borders before all the bankruptcy fun started...along with The First Wives Club, The Real Housewives Get Personal and some coffee table book about Death Cab For Cutie for my daughter. Four books, four bucks. Works for me.

Just finished Armistead Maupin's Michael Tolliver Lives, so next is Mary Ann in Autumn. Waiting for it to come back into one of the local libraries.

#488

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 8/17/11 at 12:52am

Just finished The Emerald Atlas.

#489

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 8/17/11 at 11:41am

Finished The Hunger Games and now into Catching Fire. Really liked the first book, but the second seems so redundant.

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

#490

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 8/29/11 at 9:52am

Finally finished "Cutting For Stone" by Abraham Verghese. A really good story but my problem with it is the amount of medical detail. A lot of it could have been cut. Anyone who is a medical professional would probably enjoy all of the descritions of surgical procedures, etc. The book also follows, a bit, the author's actual journey to America. I would actually like to see this as a film. Glad I read it but probably won't read his book "My Own Country" for a while. I have been told it is good but very graphic. I now figure graphic also means detailed.

Starting "Some Sing, Some Cry" by Ntozake Shange & Ifa Bayeza (Shange's sister).

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

#491

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 8/29/11 at 10:29am

Halfway through Mockingjay and really enjoying it. Most of Catching Fire was repetitive and a rehash of Hunger Games, but at least the end set the stage well for Mockingjay, which takes off in the direction I expected for Catching Fire.

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

#492

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 8/30/11 at 8:15pm

Mister Matt- Catching Fire was my favorite, I think it's the Empire Strikes Back of the trilogy.

#493

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 8/31/11 at 9:56am

Really? To me, it felt like the latest seasons of Big Brother. Same thing, but with some added "twists" to try and make it seem different.

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

#494

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 9/1/11 at 7:38am

Just finished Rules of Civility by Amor Towles. Best book I've read in a while. It's about a group of friends in 1938 Manhattan. Its kind of got a pre Mad Men vibe about it. A perfect end of summer book.

And Unc, I hated Cutting for Stone. I know everyone kept saying how awesome it was but I thought it was a total drag.

"This show had the WORST magnets on Broadway!"

#495

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 9/1/11 at 10:37am

danmag, it was the story that was so good for me. The book could have been 400 pages and it would have been fine. So much could have been cut, pardon the reference, in my opinion.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

#496

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 9/1/11 at 2:40pm

i realize i'm a little late to this game, but recently read The Life of Pi - after much avoiding as it did become the kind of novel that people talked about with much hype - but i read it and found it very touching. the adventure was less exciting to me then spending time growing up in india.

i really touching and spiritual novel - but in the truest sense of the word.

Namaste

#497

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 9/4/11 at 6:12pm

The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie

#498

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 9/5/11 at 2:19pm

I just started the new Elin Hilderbrand book - Silver Girl

KFTC!!!!!

#499

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 9/5/11 at 5:03pm

Last book I read (within the past week) was THE LAST CHILD by John Hart. Saw a blurb about it somewhere online which piqued my interest enough to order a used copy. Glad I did.

#500

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 9/6/11 at 5:39pm

Currently about 1/4 of the way through Jonathan Tropper's Plan B but just found out that my hold on Tina Fey's Bossypants came in at my library. So I may have to put Tropper aside for a bit (although I'm enjoying Plan B quite a bit so far).

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