So whats everyone reading?- Page 2

[iRuvPrinceton]

re: So whats everyone reading?#25

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

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

I get lost, unless, of course, I'm getting found.

[Rathnait62]

re: So whats everyone reading?#26

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

:)

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

[Plum]

re: So whats everyone reading?#27

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]

re: So whats everyone reading?#28

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.

I get lost, unless, of course, I'm getting found.

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

re: So whats everyone reading?#29

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.

"Friends are the people you chose as family."....Me.

[musicalmjk]

re: So whats everyone reading?#30

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

right now im reading the play BIG LOVE by Charles Mee

need to defrag my brain.

[SmrtAss]

re: So whats everyone reading?#31

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]

re: So whats everyone reading?#32

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

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

[insomniak]

re: So whats everyone reading?#33

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]

re: So whats everyone reading?#34

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]

re: So whats everyone reading?#35

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

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

And hang on, when did you win the discus?

[Type_A_Tiff]

re: So whats everyone reading?#36

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

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

"It's not always about you!!!" (But if you think I'm referring to you anyway, then I probably am.)

"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater

"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell

[touchmeinthemorning]

re: So whats everyone reading?#37

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.

"Fundamentalism means never having to say 'I'm wrong.'" -- unknown

[bdwybelle]

re: So whats everyone reading?#38

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]

re: So whats everyone reading?#39

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

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

[LittleFish8386]

re: So whats everyone reading?#40

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

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

[EverythingIsRENT]

re: So whats everyone reading?#41

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

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

Sunchips: Best Kept Secret in the chip aisle!!

[bythesword84]

re: So whats everyone reading?#42

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.

And hang on, when did you win the discus?

[Chloe]

re: So whats everyone reading?#43

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]

re: So whats everyone reading?#44

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

"The Sun Also Rises"

[jazzmin42]

re: So whats everyone reading?#45

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

"me talk pretty" david sedaris

I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too. A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.

[MagicToDo82]

re: So whats everyone reading?#46

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

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

There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.

[wink]

re: So whats everyone reading?#47

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]

re: So whats everyone reading?#48

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

Currently, Blowfly by Patricia Cornwall. Mystery.

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by moments that take our breath away." "Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain."

[Nina Myers]

re: So whats everyone reading?#49

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

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read - Mark Twain