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#200Summer Reading
Posted: 8/30/05 at 5:07pmI just finished The Nanny Diaries. It was cute and kind of sad, but nothing spectacular. Right now I am reading way too many text books. College sucks sometimes.
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
wink
Featured Actor Joined: 11/3/04
#201Summer Reading
Posted: 8/30/05 at 9:08pmI've read The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien twice and just bought three more books by Oscar Hijuelos.
#202Summer Reading
Posted: 8/30/05 at 9:12pm
I'm reading "The Honk and Holler Opening Soon", and "The Red Tent." I read a story similar to "The Red Tent", it was called "Sarah", Sarah was better.
The Honk and Holler is great. Billie Lets is the writer she wrote "Where the Heart is".
And I am always re-reading "The Princess Bride" which is the greatest book ever written.
"You gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?" -Bernadette Peters
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#203Summer Reading
Posted: 8/30/05 at 9:32pm
I finished The Time Traveler's Wife and am not sure what I thought of it. If anyone's read it I'd love to know what you thought.
I took a quick detour to reread Half Blood Prince and have now moved on to Under the Banner of Heaven, a very interesting true crime book about Mormons, which is something I don't know very much about.
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#204Summer Reading
Posted: 8/30/05 at 9:49pm
Chuck P.'s "Haunted".
Not his best work, although some of the short stories are great. The main problem is that none of the characters are properly defined. None of them are different from one another, they all have the exact same quirks and, frankly, they're hard to keep track of. But Palahniuk's worst is still better than a lot of the tripe out there.
Allie
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/04
#205Summer Reading
Posted: 8/30/05 at 9:52pmI'm still working on The Amber Spyglass, by Phillip Pullman. It's great so far, and I want it to last!
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#206Summer Reading
Posted: 8/30/05 at 10:08pmOh, I loved His Dark Materials. Loved loved loved. Even with the slightly weird kid-love.
#207Summer Reading
Posted: 8/30/05 at 11:46pm
I am in love with Time Traveller's wife. For some reason I found the love so real and deep. When I read the book I listened to the entire Frou Frou cd, it fit perfectly.
"You gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?" -Bernadette Peters
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Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#208Summer Reading
Posted: 8/31/05 at 1:03amHANS BRINKER. I'm not joking. I'd read the book when I was a kid and after spending a week in Holland earlier this month, I decided to read it again because I kept thinking of the story about the boy who put his finger in the dike and saved his town from flooding.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#209Summer Reading
Posted: 8/31/05 at 1:09am
Looking at the second hand on my watch to see how long it takes someone to pervert that last statement. 
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#210Summer Reading
Posted: 8/31/05 at 1:20amThat word is spelled "D-I-K-E"
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#211Summer Reading
Posted: 8/31/05 at 1:24am
I know DP, but the bait was there and no one took it. I'm proud of the maturity of the boards tonight.
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#213Summer Reading
Posted: 8/31/05 at 7:04am
In the last 2 weeks, I've read and finished:
The Historian
Pledged: The Secret Side of Sororities
and
Adored
They were all good, but I couldn't put The Historian down, and I read Adored in a day b/c it was addictive.
One Song Glory
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/12/05
#214Summer Reading
Posted: 8/31/05 at 8:46amI've read a bunch of shark books. And a book on Alexander the Great.
I'm not a gay stereotype. I'm a coincidence.
#215Summer Reading
Posted: 8/31/05 at 10:34amThe Corner of His Eye - Deam Koontz
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#216Summer Reading
Posted: 8/31/05 at 10:41am
THE GEOMETRY OF LOVE by Margaret Visser about the meaning and symbology of architecture and design of churches. It uses a church outside of Rome as its main focus. It is, of course, in preparation for my trip to Italy.
If anyone has an interest, I highly recommend RELUCTANT SAINT by Donald Spoto about Francis of Assisi. It is a compelling look at a very human Francis.
(For the record, this is my favorite thread.)
"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
#217Summer Reading
Posted: 8/31/05 at 11:43amI'm currently reading, Jerome Robbins : His Life, His Theater, His Dance, by Deborah Jowitt. It's quite fascinating. I also just can't imagine having a circle of friends like Bernstien, Sondheim, Balanchine, and Comden and Green!
bdwybelle
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/04
#218Summer Reading
Posted: 8/31/05 at 12:01pmOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey - very good book, but hard to get into.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#219Summer Reading
Posted: 8/31/05 at 2:33pmJust wait until Ratched and McMurphy really start to go at it. :) I have fond memories of that book. It was part of my freshman English class in high school, and as a fun activity our teacher asked us to draw our classroom as Chief Broom might see it. Though we all worked independently, there ended up being a remarkable number of malevolent iMacs with teeth and claws flying around the pictures. Coincidence? I think not.
#220Summer Reading
Posted: 8/31/05 at 2:37pmIn the middle of reading The Corrections. I have VERY mixed feelings about it.
http://preppylife.tumblr.com/
bdwybelle
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/04
#221Summer Reading
Posted: 8/31/05 at 3:27pm
Plum,
I love it so far. And that seems to be a very interesting assignment. I'm sure I'll figure out what the fog is all about, but for now it's slightly puzzling.
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#222Summer Reading
Posted: 8/31/05 at 5:39pm
Our Town
Old Man and the Sea
Ethan Frome
Scarlet Letter
Harry Potter 4
Left Behind
Those are the books I can think of off the top of my head...
--korenglish
Jezebel
Featured Actor Joined: 5/5/05
#224Summer Reading
Posted: 9/1/05 at 6:27pmI'm just about to start One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I keep putting it off - it's so intimidating!
#225Summer Reading
Posted: 9/1/05 at 6:34pmjust finished half blood prince for the third time, and i'm reading Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier, which is incredibly boring so far
"No two shows are alike in the making. Each show is a living
piece of your life in a small unreal world with its own character
and integrity; its own new set of memorable experiences and
incredible happenings. You begin to love and adapt to its strangeness.
Dreams harden into substance. Values come into focus. You wish
it would never end. The dream world vanishes like mist before a
rising sun; part of you vanishes with it. And back you land in the
real world with a thud- fogged, uneasy, jittery, difficult to get
along with. There is only one cure. A new show. A new, small
unreal world; new visions, experiences, incredible happenings.
Again you love it, adapt to it, wish it would never end.
But end it does. Another part of you vanishes.
That's show business."-Anonymous
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