Currently Reading (Take 2) — Page 26

#626

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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.

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#627

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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.

#628

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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)

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

#629

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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.

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#630

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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.

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#631

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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.

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#632

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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

#633

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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

#634

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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. :)

#635

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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

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#636

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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.

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#637

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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!

#638

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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.

#639

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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

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

#640

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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.

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

#641

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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

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

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#642

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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.

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#643

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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

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

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#644

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

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.





Some reviews and an brief synopsis

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#645

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 6/25/12 at 1:39pm

Just started 'Netherland' by Joseph O'Neill.

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#646

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 6/25/12 at 3:35pm

tazber - I LOVE Gillian Flynn's books! I am about a quarter of the way through and I like it so far. I love how her books always start out pretty simple and just a typical mystery novel, but as you keep reading it just gets creepier and creepier. Gillian Flynn knows how to write suspense.

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#647

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 6/25/12 at 9:10pm

The Gone-Away World - Nick Harkaway

Very dense and crunchy so far - Harkaway really does get verbose, and it's extra noticeable when he's writing in the first person. We'll see how the plot holds up compared to Angelmaker.

#648

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 6/25/12 at 11:03pm

"Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger" by Christopher Andersen

I started it this weekend. Riveting.

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#649

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 6/25/12 at 11:47pm

I haven't posted in this thread in a while...

I've also recently read:

GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn (Agree with Taz - fantastic!)

THE HAMMERSTEINS: A MUSICAL THEATRE FAMILY by Oscar Andrew Hammerstein (Interesting, and enjoyed!)

THE MASTER's MUSE: A NOVEL by Varley O'Connor
The story of Balanchine and his fifth and final wife, star ballerina Tanaquil LeClercq.
Beyond fabulous!


And have CAN I GET AN AMEN by Sarah Healy on my nightstand, to read next. I have it on good authority that I'll love it!

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Updated On: 6/25/12 at 11:47 PM

#650

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 6/28/12 at 4:07pm

Finished THE POWDER OF LIFE a day or two ago. Loved it!! What a ride!

About five or six chapters into the Dick Van Dyke autobiography and am really enjoying it too.