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[yodamarie78]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 4:06pm

Finished Under the Banner of Heaven, which was very informative by the way, if anyone's looking to learn about violence and the history of Mormonism.

I'm now moving on to Fluke or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore. Now that school's started again it's time for some lighter reading.
Updated On: 9/9/05 at 04:06 PM

[Allie]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 4:08pm

I FINALLY finished The Amber Spyglass last night! I was in tears for the last bit, too. It was such a wonderful trilogy (His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman).

Today I started Angels in America, but it'll probably take me awhile to get through, since I'll have readings to do for school, too. But it's wonderful so far!

[musicalmjk]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 1:26am

For school I get to read
Cheese and Worms by Carlo Ginzburg
Diary of Samuel Sewall
William Byrd's Histories of the Dividing Line betwixt Virginia and North Carloina
Plays: Callimachuhs by Roswitha and Everyman and Noah
Living Theatre by WilsonGoldfarb (terrible textbook/expected Brockett)
Child Development
a bunch of book about the Jesuit Missions in New France

and the short stories:
The Lottery, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, Good Country People, A Good Man is Hard to find, Babylon Revisited, The Swimmer, and Sonny's Blues

Also I am going to pick up Son of a Witch on Tuesday, not sure if I will be able to get to it before Winter break

[boytobroadway]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 1:28am

Just finished TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.

I must say that in the begining I was bored, but it got very good very fast and I love it. Now i know why it was so hyped up over. Now I msut go buy Tori Amos' autobiography PIECE BY PIECE.

Posted: 9/25/05 at 1:44am

I'm reading THE ROTTER'S CLUB by Jonathan Coe. It's sooooo good. Already one of my favorites.

I'm in love with Claire.

To Kill a Mockingbird will always be on of my favorite novels ever written, not to metion one of the best ever written.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 12:19pm

Has anyone here (besides bwaysinger) read House Of Leaves? I am reading it right now and it is freaking me the f**k out.

[Father Time]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 12:47pm

currently reading interview with a vampire, and the Pearls of Lutra.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 12:53pm

I recently finished Michelangelo Signorile's HITTING HARD, which is a collection of his writings in various publications covering events dealing directly and indirectly with gay issues from 1996 to the present. Very informative and shows you how life has and hasn't changed in nearly 10 years.

[iwearshoes]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 12:57pm

Reading A Rasin in the Sun, and then Streetcar named desire (i love turning school projects into theater for myself!)

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 12:59pm

Almost done with Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim and then it's off to Ethan Coen's short story collection Gates of Heaven

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 2:22pm

Just finished Toni Lamond's autobio "First Half." Extremely compelling.

[insomniak]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 2:23pm

After The Fall

[Racetrack]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 6:37pm

Stiff

A Series of Unfortunate Events:Grim Grotto

And assorted books for school

Posted: 9/25/05 at 6:41pm

I just finished The Rotters' Club, now I'm going to start Sederis' Me Talk Pretty One Day.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 6:52pm

Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

Posted: 9/25/05 at 6:54pm

OH! That one's GOOD! I read it last year, or maybe at the beginning of this one.

I remember when I bought it, the girl at the front desk gave me a really weird look, then asked me if I was buying it for my girlfriend.

I just kinda laughed.

I can't wait to read more of Karen's stuff.

[nychick9876]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 7:46pm

i just finished the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, it was a great book.

[Broadway_Baby]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 7:52pm

Great Expectations (for school, naturally)


Good ol' Dickens...ehh.

Posted: 9/25/05 at 10:09pm

David Copperfield is terrific! My favorite Dickens novel.

(I know you said you were reading Great Expectations but they're both Dickens.

I'e always wondered what the outcome would be if Dickens and Austen got together to write a novel. Just think of the possibilities!)

[wexy]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 10:23pm

Last two read
"A Long Way Down" by Nick Hornby
Girlfriend 44 by Barrowcliff

Just started "On Beauty" by Zadie Smith

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 9/26/05 at 12:14am

Koren Zailckas (author of Smashed) went to Syracuse too and her book is now required reading in many freshman year writing classes. I'm only 1/5 of the way through it and I really like it. More people need to write books like this and make movies like Thirteen, because too many parents are in denial thinking this kind of stuff would never happen to their kid, but I witness it every weekend.

Sorry for the soapbox moment

[Roscoe]

Posted: 9/26/05 at 7:33am

Calvin, I started HOUSE OF LEAVES when it first came out, and didn't get very far. There was some good creepy stuff, but it just started to feel very bogus: like it was working way too hard to be cool and cutting edge.

The last book I read was CATCH-22, which seems to have also been read by the management of the last company I worked for. Unfortunately, they didn't realize the book is a satire.

I'm currently reading THE MARCH, a new novel by E.L. Doctorow, and am enjoying it very much.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 9/26/05 at 10:26am

Just started CENTER SQUARE, a bio of Paul Lynde.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 9/26/05 at 11:11am

Finished Zadie Smith's On Beauty and am now reading First Half by Toni Lamond.

[Pippin]

Posted: 9/26/05 at 11:42am

finished my second read of ragtime last night. now I am starting on Doctorow's newest, "the march"