I just finished Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis. I loved it and read it straight through in a day and a half. Very quick read. Amazing but INCREDIBLY depressing. I can't believe he was only twenty or so when he wrote it. I'm curious about the film adaptation.
Next up. The Bell Jar...I know, I know. Someone hand me the Zoloft.
RIP Natasha Richardson. ~You were a light on this earth ~
Finally getting around to THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE.
2016 These Paper Bullets (1/02) Our Mother's Brief Affair (1/06), Dragon Boat Racing (1/08), Howard - reading (1/28), Shear Madness (2/10), Fun Home (2/17), Women Without Men (2/18), Trip Of Love (2/21), The First Gentleman -reading (2/22), Southern Comfort (2/23), The Robber Bridegroom (2/24), She Loves Me (3/11), Shuffle Along (4/12), Shear Madness (4/14), Dear Evan Hansen (4/16), American Psycho (4/23), Tuck Everlasting (5/10), Indian Summer (5/15), Peer Gynt (5/18), Broadway's Rising Stars (7/11), Trip of Love (7/27), CATS (7/31), The Layover (8/17), An Act Of God (8/31), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (8/24), Heisenberg (10/12), Fiddler On The Roof (11/02), Othello (11/23), Dear Evan Hansen (11/26), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (12/21) 2017 In Transit (2/01), Groundhog Day (4/04), Ring Twice For Miranda (4/07), Church And State (4/10), The Lucky One (4/19), Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (5/16), Building The Wall (5/19), Indecent (6/01), Six Degrees of Separation (6/09), Marvin's Room (6/28), A Doll's House Pt 2 (7/25) Curvy Widow (8/01)
Just finished "The Legs Are The Last To Go" by Diahann Carroll. A fun read and now I'm onto "Wishful Drinking" by Carrie Fisher. Another fun one.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
Goodbye, Columbus, by Philip Roth. LOVED the novella, not so much digging the short stories. But we'll see.
Just finished Slaughterhouse Five, which I found utterly fascinating, but I didn't like it quite as much as I loved Cat's Cradle, which I more or less wanted to marry.
I've seen the 2005 movie version more than 20 times; I've seen bits and pieces of the 1995 version; I've seen the version from the 1940s; and I saw it more than three times on Wishbone when I was younger. I know the basic story, but I feel like I might as well read the novel itself.
I'm about three-quarters of the way through "Olive Kitteredge," which recently won the Pulitzer. A novel told in thirteen separate short stories. Really enjoying it. The title character is objectionable in so many ways, but you can't wait for her to come back onstage--and she's often peripheral to the story being told.
On Beauty by Zadie Smith and Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf.
"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
I am currently reading Les Miserables, but just ordered Silver Shoes from Amazon. A lot of the books mentioned here sound really good. One I enjoyed and recommend is My Most Excellent Year; A story of Love, Mary Poppins and Fenway Park
I just finished Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski. It was a suggestion by a friend who loved it. I thought it was an OK read but was not impressed. Maybe she built it up too much. Is Bukowski's other works like Ham on Rye? Any others I should try to give him another shot?
BroadwayBoobs: I'll give all of you who weren't there a hint of who took the pictures ...it rhymes with shameless
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
"Lamb: The Gospel According to Christ's Childhood Pal, Biff" by Christopher Moore.
It's my 5th time reading it. Honestly the funniest book I've ever read. Passed it on to 7 different people and they all loved it. Anything by Christopher Moore is great though.
Also reading "Overcoming Binge Eating" by Dr. Christopher Fairburn. It's insightful, helpful and surprisingly spot on to all of my issues.
"And I'm a grown up....I don't go on vacations....I go to Broadway." - dramamama611
"Even I think that's hot, and I'm a straight guy. If I ever become gay he is the reason." - Drunk Chita Rivera on Gavin Creel
"Leia947 is my theatre mamma, and I love her for it." - AndAllThatJazz22
I read Duma Key the other week, and loved it! It's one of those great books where you need to know what happens, but you don't want it to end. Which is also frustrating, but I'll take it. I'll have to read it again some time. :)
Just finished Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult. Am now moving onto Richard II by William Shakespeare. It occurred to me that I haven't seen or read any version of it since May last year, so I thought I ought to go back and remind myself what happened. A lot of men throwing gloves around, iirc.
I just finished What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt. AMAZING. I couldn't put it down and ended up reading it all in one day. It's the first novel in a long time that's made me want to read everything the author has ever written. Interestingly enough, the last time that happened was with Paul Auster, her husband.
Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't by Stephen Prothero
Intensely interesting. It discusses the fact that America is the most religious yet the least religiously educated Western nation. It is not just that Americans are ignorant to world religions, but most know nothing about their own. Prothero calls religious illiteracy dangerous because religion is one of the greatest forces for good--as well as evil--in the world.
"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. "
--Sueleen Gay