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What are you currently reading?
BkCollector
Broadway Star Joined: 2/6/08
#325re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 4/1/08 at 1:51pm
Middlesex is incredible.
I just finished Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, and started War Boy by Kief Hillsbury (what an incredible book).
Also looking at reading Sula and the The Road (not because of Oprah).
#326re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 4/1/08 at 7:53pmWrit in Blood by James A. Moore
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
#327re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 4/1/08 at 8:18pm
I'm an English major so I'm always reading something.
Right now I'm reading Pride and Prejudice and analyzing poems by e.e. cummings.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#328re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 4/1/08 at 8:27pm
Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky
It has put me in a Russian mood, and Dostoevsky is next.
Updated On: 4/1/08 at 08:27 PM
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#329re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 4/1/08 at 8:28pmRight now is "Ship of Fools" by Katherine Anne Porter and "Icon" by Frederick Forsyth. The latter is a fun read if you like spy novels (I do) and the former is a great way to transfer yourself back to a dangerous time in the not-so-distant past. GREAT characters!
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NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#330re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 4/1/08 at 9:12pm
"Year of Wonders" by Geraldine Brooks
"Loosely based on a true story of a Derbyshire village, Eyam, which was struck by the plague in 1666. Actual letters from the village rector exist which tell of the villagers heroic decision to isolate and quarantine themselves rather than flee the plague and risk spreading the "plague seeds" furthur. Brooks' novel takes as its narrator, Anna, a young widow in the village who works as a servant for the charismatic and powerful rector and his compassionate wife. They become the strength behind the village as the plague spreads its devastation and over a period of a year wipes out two thirds of the village. Although the subject matter is horrific in parts, the overall feeling of the novel is of uplifiting compassion and hope."
I actually just finished it. And loved it.
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/6/05
#332re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 10:09pm"Seize the Night" by Dean Koontz. Can't put it down.
"The world is a better place because of hairspray." - Michael Ball
#333re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 11:14pmJust read Jane Eyre for the first time and now I'm re-reading Atonement.
-Was that a fart?
-My fault, I fear.
-My fault, I fear.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#335re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 4/8/08 at 2:28pm
This is spellbinding!
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#336re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 4/8/08 at 2:34pm
(Borstal, I love your avatar)
Right now I'm reading Seven Years In Tibet for English. It's pretty good.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#337re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 4/8/08 at 2:37pmStill reading THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES, getting to the final hundred odd pages, about time, too.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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#338re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 4/8/08 at 2:48pmI borrowed my brother's copy of Lush Life, the new Richard Price.
....but the world goes 'round
#339re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 4/8/08 at 2:49pmPrisoner, I'd love to hear your thoughts on Jane Eyre. It's one of my favorite books.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
#340re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 4/8/08 at 6:03pm
Oh, I love Jane Eyre. The musical is my favorite ever.
Right now I'm reading the libretto for FINIAN'S RAINBOW. It's very funny, though I wonder how neccessary some of the songs are.
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#341re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 4/8/08 at 7:15pmI reallyed enjoyed Jane Eyre, Geek. I can see why it's a classic. It's fascinating to get an experience like that from the mind of an author actually living in that era, especially one so reverent of human nature. The ending, to me, was just a bit of a let down, but I understand what Bronte was trying to do. In my opinion, the musical adaptation did little justice to the complexity and depth of Bronte's characters and ideas.
-Was that a fart?
-My fault, I fear.
-My fault, I fear.
Mood_Indigo
Understudy Joined: 2/25/07
#342re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 4/8/08 at 8:39pmI just started reading Les Miserables.
xoangel2789xo
Broadway Star Joined: 11/3/07
#343re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 4:12pm
Just finished "The Witch of Portobello" by Paolo Coelho
#344re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 6:38pmMood, I had to read Les Mis in highschool. LOVED it.
#347re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/11/08 at 10:27amAbout halfway through White Teeth by Zadie Smith.
"...and the last thing I want to do is turn into Judy Garland." - Shira
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#348re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/11/08 at 10:28amI'm about to start reading Les Mis. I've just finished Ragtime and I'm currently working my way through an O'Neill play.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#349re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/11/08 at 10:29am
Still reading Middlesex, having put it aside for a while after the grandparents' part of the story. I think I basically like it, but for some reason it makes for terribly slow reading.
In the meantime, I reread Ragtime and started to reread Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#350re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/11/08 at 10:30am
Wow, we're all reading the same stuff.
Isn't Ragtime just glorious?
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
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