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#601

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 4/19/12 at 1:13pm

I just finished the Hunger Games Trilogy, and I'm think of stepping out of my comfort zone and reading Drift by Rachel Maddow. I usually stick to light fiction, but her book seems fascinating and has gotten such good reviews that I think I'll give it a try.

"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

#602

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 4/19/12 at 6:14pm

I just started The Lifeboat, by Charlotte Rogan, about the sinking of a transatlantic liner in 1914, and one woman who managed to to survive and is now on trial for murder - it flashes back to how events unfolded. Not something I would normally read, but it's actually quite good so far.

I saw Clint Hill on Piers Morgan a few weeks back, and am looking forward to reading his book too.

Beyoncé is not an ally. Actions speak louder than words, Mrs. Carter. #Dubai #$$$

Updated On: 4/19/12 at 06:14 PM

#603

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 4/21/12 at 1:47am

I'm currently reading Picoult's latest book, Lone Wolf. I lover her books, and I am loving this one so far. Fifty Shades... is next on my list.

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

#604

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 4/21/12 at 3:05am

I am reading some cheesy Rachel Gibson book. After the horrible books my book club has been choosing I need something entertaining and mindless. I also just downloaded a Jodi Picoult book I haven't read yet called Picture Perfect.

KFTC!!!!!

#605

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 4/22/12 at 1:43pm

Remaking History: Discussions in Contemporary Culture

Apparently my reaction to being out of school for almost a year is to start reading Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. I am wrong in the head.

#606

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 4/22/12 at 2:16pm

Been a while since I checked in on this thread. Life got a bit crazy and wasn't reading as much. I think i mentoned somewhere here that I re Night Circus, which I loved. Also read a short gay novel that was a nook free book called "If ir Ain't Love" by Tamara Allen. Am currently pushing through the book on Gower Champion, "Before the Parade Passes By".

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

#607

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 4/23/12 at 12:08am

I recently finished Roger Rosenblatt's KAYAK MORNING, wherein he continues to work through his daughter's sudden death. It started slow but was good by the end. Over MAKING TOAST was a smoother read.

I've been working through STUFF: COMPULSIVE HOARDING AND THE MEANING OF THINGS slowly, a chapter at a time. I don't hoard or specifically collect anything but I can relate to the person discussed who places a lot of value on what seems valueless to others - collections of one I guess.

Next up is STEALING REMBRANDTS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF NOTORIOUS ART HEISTS.

Why don't people read more non-fiction? I work part time in a library and the collection maintainers weed our history section to almost nothing on a regular basis thanks to low demand.

#608

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 4/23/12 at 8:00am

I finished "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern and enjoyed it a lot. Beautiful imagery.

Now I have two chapters or so left of "Fifty Shades of Grey". Not as bad as I was expecting but also didn't leave me wanting to hump something like everyone on faceboook claims lol.

Then moving onto "Marching the Dime" by Michael Connelly

BroadwayBoobs: I'll give all of you who weren't there a hint of who took the pictures ...it rhymes with shameless

SOMMS: I knew it was Tink!

#609

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 4/25/12 at 10:59am

"Suddenly A Knock On The Door"- short story collection (some really short) by Edgar Keret.

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

#610

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 4/30/12 at 1:39am

"Now I have two chapters or so left of "Fifty Shades of Grey". Not as bad as I was expecting but also didn't leave me wanting to hump something like everyone on faceboook claims lol."

I just finished it yesterday and I really liked it. I thought it was beautifully written and I look forward to reading the other two. I'm taking a break before I start book 2 and I am reading Other Desert Cities

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

#611

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 4/30/12 at 8:25am

I just finished Drift by Rachel Maddow, and I strongly recommend it. It's not the typical kind of book I read, but I found it fascinating. I consider myself intelligent and well-informed, but I learned so much from this book. Though Maddow is an unapologetic liberal, this book is not a one-sided bashing of the far right. It takes a very detailed look at how our military has been transformed over the last two generations or so.

"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

#612

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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

FINALLY finished Gower Champion-Before the Parade Passes By. Took me forever. The first half seemed a bit too detailed but it picked up in the second half. Interesting to read what went on the few days leading to hos death and the days after. Merrick was a jerk.

I am now reading "The Powder of Life" by Paul Miles Schneider (the "sequal" to The Silver Shoes)

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

#613

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 6/6/12 at 8:57pm

Great thread! I recently finished 'A Confederacy of Dunces' which is just as funny as everyone says (though I do think it tends to lag in the last 1/3) and 'The White Tiger' which was a really impressive and darkly funny debut novel about the dark underside of modern Indian society. It won the author, Aravind Adiga, the Booker Prize - pretty impressive for a first time novelist. Speaking of the Booker Prize, I'm currently reading former Booker Prize winner Alan Hollinghurst's latest novel, 'The Stranger's Child'. I'm about half way through. While, I'm entranced, I don't think there's any way this new book will equal his prior success in 'The Line of Beauty'.

#614

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 6/6/12 at 9:06pm

My kindle tells me I'm 39% of the way through Gone With the Wind.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.

#615

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 6/7/12 at 12:36am

I am almost done with In One Person by John Irving. It is an absolutely stunning novel with brilliant messages about acceptance and tolerance. Can not recommend it enough. Next on my list is Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (she also wrote Sharp Objects and Dark places which are both wonderful, suspenseful, and extremely dark books).

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

#616

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 6/7/12 at 2:14am

I'm actually about half way through Gone Girl--I've loved all of Flynn's work so far (even her TV critiques for Entertainment Weekly)_ but so far, this could be my favorite. (Amy Adams was recently cast in a movie of Dark Places, BTW)

I'd like to pick up the Irving--I wonder if any cheap copies are on the remainder table yet...

#617

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 6/7/12 at 8:40am

^ this makes me even more excited to read it! I am going to buy it today! And I would DEFINITELY check out Irving's latest. I have not read anything by him before, but I am going to check out some of his older stuff for sure!

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

#618

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 6/7/12 at 10:46am

I recently finished a re-read of Dickens' OUR MUTUAL FRIEND, which has a completely brilliant beginning and middle but gets kind of soggy in the final chapters.

Now re-reading Pynchon's INHERENT VICE and enjoying it all over again. Great fun but with a definite sadness to it.

"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/

#619

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 6/7/12 at 12:14pm

I am starting Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf," as soon as I stop playing on this computer.
I will probably read it in one sitting.

#620

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 6/7/12 at 4:22pm

Must You Go? by Antonia Fraser, a memoir of her relationship with Harold Pinter - highly recommended, even if you're not a Pinter fan (though it helps).

Beyoncé is not an ally. Actions speak louder than words, Mrs. Carter. #Dubai #$$$

#621

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 6/7/12 at 4:33pm

Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother?

"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

#622

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 6/7/12 at 5:17pm

Finished The Neddiad and now reading The Yggysey.

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

#623

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 6/9/12 at 11:59am

I'm on a genre kick, so I just finished:
Angelmaker, by Nick Harkaway
A Local Habitation, by Seanan McGuire

Now I'm working on The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss.

#624

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 6/9/12 at 12:46pm

Just finished "The Postmistress" by Sarah Blake. It was kind of a mess. Currently working on Stephen King's "Cell." Not sure what I think yet.

#625

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 6/12/12 at 5:42pm

The Master's Violin by Myrtle Reed
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
Re-reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

"I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and dreamer of improbable dreams." - Doctor Who

"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables

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