Currently Reading (Take 2)- Page 26

[Jay Lerner-Z]

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).

[AC126748]

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

Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother?

[Mister Matt]

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

Finished The Neddiad and now reading The Yggysey.

[Plum]

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.

[ShbrtAlley44]

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.

[Perfectly Marvelous]

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

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 6/12/12 at 6:43pm

I Am an Executioner: Love Stories, by Rajesh Parameswaran. New collection of short stories, author's debut I believe. Started out REALLY strong but I'm about 100 pages from the end and struggling to keep going. But I don't like not finishing books and since it's short stories, each one comes with the promise of being better.

[Plum]

Posted: 6/12/12 at 7:30pm

Short stories also means it's not so bad if you put it down for a while and pick it up again later, right?

I've momentarily put down The Name of the Wind so I can read The Tempest in preparation for watching the Christopher Plummer production in a movie theater on Thursday. Ah, Folger's editions, I love you so.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 6/13/12 at 12:58pm

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice (trying for the 4th time)

The Thief of Always by Clive Barker (when I take a break from the one above)

Updated On: 6/13/12 at 12:58 PM

[Roscoe]

Posted: 6/13/12 at 1:01pm

Re-reading Pynchon's INHERENT VICE, a fast and funny and very moving little book, all the fun of Pynchon's best work without all the heavy lifting.

[uncageg]

Posted: 6/13/12 at 6:27pm

Now reading "Black Moon (Moon Trilogy Pt. 1) by C.L. Bevill. The trilogy was free on my nook so I thought I would give it a shot.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 6/16/12 at 9:34pm

Today being Bloomsday, I was inspired to pick up Ulysses. Anybody successfully conquered it?

Yes, that's how I'm spending my Saturday night - reading Joyce.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/16/12 at 10:24pm

I struggled through four sections (and wrote an essay about the Nausicaa chapter) in school. Good lucky. When my dad lived in Dublin, I did the Bloomsday tour with him, but it was pretty apparent he knew as much about the novel as I did. (We did cover it in a class with Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, and reading it while discussing it was one of the best experiences of my life, so it was not a complete fail of a class--and it taught me The Dubliners which is, I think, brilliant in every story).

I'm about half way through this book--a good half of it is pretty awesome, some of it pretty histerical, but always an interesting anthology, with good side notes

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/16/12 at 10:25pm

[Plum]

Posted: 6/17/12 at 3:25pm

Did a rush read of As You Like It between winning the Virtual Ticketing lottery for Shakespeare in the Park and arriving at the box office. :)

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 6/17/12 at 8:31pm

PRODUCED BY FAITH by DEVON FRANKLIN

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/18/12 at 4:15pm

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice (trying for the 4th time)

Good luck. I couldn't get through it. Got insanely bored by all those "files".

The Thief of Always by Clive Barker (when I take a break from the one above)

I read that when it was first published and really enjoyed it, though I don't remember much about it now. I'll have to pick it up again.

[californiasnow]

Posted: 6/18/12 at 4:46pm

Almost done with The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson. Very enjoyable.

Next up is 4:30 from Paddington (Miss Marple) by Agatha Christie. I am on a huge Christie kick this summer... oldies but goodies!

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/18/12 at 7:53pm

Wasn't Disney meant to do an animated Thief of Always? It's a great book that I also should re-read--I got really into Barker as a teen with Sacrament and Galilee, two novels my friend who knows his work much better has said many of his fans don't really like.

[JbaraFan1]

Posted: 6/23/12 at 2:07pm

Partway through THE POWDER OF LIFE, which I am enjoying immensely.

[uncageg]

Posted: 6/23/12 at 3:40pm

Dropped the Moon book after it turned into soft porn at the end of the first chaper into the second chapter.

Picked up Tavis Smiley's "The Rich...And the Rest of Us". It is repetitive but very good...and true.

Updated On: 6/23/12 at 03:40 PM

[StockardFan]

Posted: 6/23/12 at 6:21pm

Q is for Quarry by Sue Grafton. It's an easy pool read.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 6/23/12 at 6:29pm

I am rereading the Harry Potter series. They are my go to books when I can't find anything else.

[MotorTink]

Posted: 6/25/12 at 9:38am

Half way through "Freedom" by Jonathan Franzen and started "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Capote.

[tazber]

Posted: 6/25/12 at 1:34pm

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.

It is just fantastic. There is very little I can say without spoiling any of the surprises, but this is one we'll be seeing on a lot of year end "best of" lists.


Highly recommended.





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