So whats everyone reading?- Page 2

[iRuvPrinceton]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 8:05pm

I think Amber Tamblyn is going to be great in her part (Tibby).

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 8:06pm

:)

[Plum]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 8:07pm

I actually usually like to read books before I see their movie adaptations. If the movies disappoint, it's their own fault. But there have been adaptations that, while different from the books, have been good on their own terms- The Cider House Rules and Catch-22 come to mind. Neither were as epically wonderful as their sources, but they were good movies on their own terms. And I really can't expect anything more.

[iRuvPrinceton]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 8:09pm

I just end up reading all these teen/young adult novels just before I find out they're being made into movies! Harry Potter stays true, but Ella Enchanted was just AHHH and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen was okay.

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 9:09pm

I am reading a biography about Leonard Bernstein. He is perhaps one of the ,ost famous conductors as well as a gifted composer. As I child I used to go to Yong People's concerts and he was a big influence in my taking music lessons and singing.

[musicalmjk]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 9:14pm

right now im reading the play BIG LOVE by Charles Mee

[SmrtAss]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 10:06pm

Jacob Have I Loved - Katherine Paterson
Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell
Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
Holes - Louis Sachar
Sounder - William H. Armstrong

Can you tell I'm taking a Children's Literature course?

[Plum]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 10:08pm

Gah, I love all of those. Except Jacob I Have Loved, which I've never read.

[insomniak]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 10:11pm

I never really got Holes like everyone else did... it just didn't do it for me. *shrug*

My favorite teen author is definetly Francesca Lia Block... no one writes like her. She's a truely unique voice amongst all kinds of trashy teenybopper books.

[SmrtAss]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 10:17pm

I finished "Jacob Have I Loved" an hour or so ago. I thought it was very good, but I wonder if I'd have appreciated it as much if I'd read it when it was age appropriate for me. I'm not so sure. I won't get to "Holes" til later in the week, but it doesn't look like a book I'd have chosen for myself. We shall see.

[bythesword84]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 10:18pm

I'm in the middle of "Liza of Lambeth" by W. Somerset Maugham

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 10:20pm

Speaking of trashy reading, any ladies here familiar with the works of Susan Elizabeth Phillips?

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 10:49pm

I'm currently gaffawing every other line of "The Partly Cloudy Patriot" by Sarah Vowell.

She's smart funny.

[bdwybelle]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 12:43pm

The Scarlet Letter.. I have to read it for school but I'm actually enjoying it, surprisingly

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 12:49pm

For school, Marlowe's Dr.Faustus
For me, I just picked up War for the Oaks

[LittleFish8386]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 12:57pm

A Tale of Two Cities b/c I am a giant Dickens freak.

[EverythingIsRENT]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 1:47pm

Right now i'm stuck reading my Technical Theatre textbook. Blah.

[bythesword84]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 2:38pm

Well I'm not a big Dicken's fan but I loved A Tale of Two Cities when I read it.

[Chloe]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 3:46pm

I'm reading what I always turn to in times of stress - Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey, Marjorie Allingham et al. At the moment it's "Have His Carcase" by Dorothy Sayers.

[Marquise]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 4:05pm

"The Sun Also Rises"

[jazzmin42]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 4:51pm

"me talk pretty" david sedaris

[MagicToDo82]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 5:01pm

Just finished "The Nanny Diaries" and I have to say it was an awesome book. :)

[wink]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 5:12pm

The Piana Tuner by Daniel Mason
The Way The Crow Flies by Ann-Maire MacDonald

Has anyone read George Carlin's newest book yet?

[Broadwaylady]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 7:24pm

Currently, Blowfly by Patricia Cornwall. Mystery.

[Nina Myers]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 7:26pm

I've just finished rereading two of my favorite books of all time...
The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
Auntie Mame - Patrick Dennis