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Currently Reading
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#400Currently Reading
Posted: 1/6/06 at 2:07amYep, I'm on a Gaiman kick right now. I was obsessed with myth and folklore as a kid, so how can I not totally love what he does with it? I'm going to his talk at the 92nd St. Y on Monday. Should be good. :)
#401Currently Reading
Posted: 1/6/06 at 6:49amI'm going to start Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Memoirs of my Melancholy Whores on the train today. It looks relatively short; I can probably have it finished by tomorrow.
#402Currently Reading
Posted: 1/6/06 at 6:54amI am currently reading Intensity by Dean Koontz and afterwards I am reading Making it on Broadway
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
#403Currently Reading
Posted: 1/6/06 at 7:19am"The Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren.....a friend recommended it. It takes 40 days to read.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#405Currently Reading
Posted: 1/6/06 at 7:29amLMAO !!! So true for you SOMMSY...so true !!!
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#406Currently Reading
Posted: 1/6/06 at 9:44amSon of a Witch.
"Singing is the lowest form of communication" - Homer
#407Currently Reading
Posted: 1/6/06 at 11:49amI just finished Beach Music by Pat Conroy, which is my favorite book and one of the most beautifully written novels ever. Now I'm reading The Water is Wide also by Conroy and will probably move from there to The Great Santini and My Losing Season to make a clean sweep of it.
#408Currently Reading
Posted: 1/6/06 at 11:50amCry to Heaven by Anne Rice. About the Castrati in 18th cent. Italy.
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
#409Currently Reading
Posted: 1/6/06 at 11:58amWicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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I remember days
Or at least I try
But as years go by
They're sort of haze
And the bluest ink
Isn't really sky
And at times I think
I would gladly die
For a day of sky
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And Starbucks will use the words 'large' and 'small', not pretentious crap like grande and tall.
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"You could get away with anything if you call it art and tell people who don't like it that it's cutting edge culture." --vmlinnie
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I remember days
Or at least I try
But as years go by
They're sort of haze
And the bluest ink
Isn't really sky
And at times I think
I would gladly die
For a day of sky
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And Starbucks will use the words 'large' and 'small', not pretentious crap like grande and tall.
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"You could get away with anything if you call it art and tell people who don't like it that it's cutting edge culture." --vmlinnie
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#410Currently Reading
Posted: 1/6/06 at 12:26pmUgh, I gave up on Son of a Witch, which I'd picked up for light reading over break. It was dreadful. I got so bored with it that I skimmed to the end (it's pretty difficult to bore me that much), read the end (most cliche thing ever) and decided that I was done with it. It was like all of the most boring parts of Wicked, which I liked overall, were extended into their own 250-page novel.
#411Currently Reading
Posted: 1/6/06 at 1:06pmJane2, I think CRY TO HEAVEN is an exquisitely written book and, by far, Anne Rice's best.
"I am open, and I am willing,
For to be hopeless would seem so strange.
It dishonors those who go before us,
So lift me up to the light of change."
Holly Near
#412Currently Reading
Posted: 1/6/06 at 1:09pmGlad to hear it, because this is actually my first Rice book. Also, after seeing the film FARINELLI, my interest in this subject was born. thanks!
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#413Currently Reading
Posted: 1/6/06 at 1:41pmPhillipa Gregory's "The Virgin's Lover." She's fantastic with historical novels....
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#414Currently Reading
Posted: 1/9/06 at 2:03amI put aside The Red and the Black and read Good Omens instead. It's Revelations on crack. The most English Apocalypse imaginable. :)
#415Currently Reading
Posted: 1/9/06 at 2:10am
MEF - I just bought Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Memoirs of my Melancholy Whores - how was it?
I also picked up Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. So much reading to do, so little time.
#416Currently Reading
Posted: 1/9/06 at 2:29amRight now I am reading Jon Stewarts "America, the book" (hysterical) and re-reading "The Making of Big, the Musical". The latter book is a great read; you'll end up having a lot more respect for these directors and choreographers after reading about what these folks went through to get BIG on it's feet...only to watch it slowly fail.
"My dreams, watching me said, one to the other...this life has let us down."
#417Currently Reading
Posted: 1/9/06 at 2:33am
I am currently halfway through:
SON OF A WITCH (I loved WICKED, but am having a hard time getting through WITCH)
THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE (seen the Narnia movie, haven't read the book since I was a kid)
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA (seen the movie, haven't read the book yet)
JARHEAD (not seeing the movie until I finish the book)
Plath's THE BELL JAR (I am on a re-reading books that I 'had to' read in school, except this time for fun, kick. Yeah, I know, Plath is not really 'for fun.')
Douglas Coupland's ALL FAMILIES ARE PSYCHOTIC
...I like to be reading more than one book at once. :)
And then speaking of reading: I saw three different people on the subway today reading Capote's IN COLD BLOOD. I was starting to think that Oprah had said to read it or something, before I remembered it was probably due to Capote the film. :)
#419Currently Reading
Posted: 1/30/06 at 8:51pmstill reading Xenia, the biography of the Grand Duchess Xenia, sister to the last Czar
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#421Currently Reading
Posted: 1/30/06 at 9:17pm
tonite i'm starting RAINBOW ROAD ... book 3 in alex sanchez' RAINBOW series 
RIP glebby <3
#422Currently Reading
Posted: 1/30/06 at 9:19pmcurrently reading The Lovely Bones and waiting for my copy of Without You
--Alex--
"They're singing, "Happy Birthday"
You just wanna lay down and cry
Not just another birthday, it's 30/90
Why can't you stay 29
Hell, you still feel like you're 22
Turn 30 in 1990
Bang! You're dead, what can you do?"
--TTB
#423Currently Reading
Posted: 1/30/06 at 9:21pmI'm currently reading two books; Night by Elie Wiesel for my english class, and Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner for my school's book club.
"Chicago is it's own incredible theater town right there smack down in the middle of the heartland. What a great city! I can see why Oprah likes to live there!" - Dee Hoty :-D
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#424Currently Reading
Posted: 1/30/06 at 9:22pmA Streetcar Named Desire. It only reinforces Tennessee Williams being my favorite classic playwright, I love it so much. I am also starting Ordinary People soon at home.
#425Currently Reading
Posted: 1/30/06 at 9:34pmYou will love ordinary people. It is a great story. I'm reading a million little pieces regarless to what Oprah says that book has changed my life. It is fascinating and a great story.
Light in the Piazza with Megan and Emi
"Girl you got money runnin' in yo bloodline."-Carl the Bartender
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