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What are you currently reading?
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#450re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/10/08 at 2:10pm
Just finished KING SOLOMON'S MINES, good rowdy ripping yarn, if a bit dated.
Next up: ROGUE MALE.
"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
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
#451re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/10/08 at 3:43pmI loved Jodi Piccoult's My Sister's Keeper. I thought the Stephanie Meyer's books were good but too repetitive.
ALittleNorthofKansas
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/04
#452re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/10/08 at 4:38pmI am trying to get through The Children of Húrin but like other of Tolkien's posthumous works I am finding it a little tough to get into. Mind you I started it a while ago and got distrated. I may restart it and see if that helps.
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#453re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/10/08 at 4:43pm
I remember on the other reading thread alot of people saying they loved Time Traveler's Wife. I had tried reading it several times and couldn't get into it, but I tried again and ended up loving it.
KFTC!!!!!
#454re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 8/28/08 at 6:49pm
This summer I have read, among other things, Ian McEwans' Atonement, Amsterdam and On Chesil Beach, which I finished moments ago. I thought I then would put McEwan away, but, after reading the perfect last sentence to yet another exquisitely written book, I think it will be but a short break. I would type the sentence here, but you should read the book to fully appreciate McEwan's elegance.
"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
Updated On: 8/28/08 at 06:49 PM
#455re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 8/28/08 at 7:26pmI just finished The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, which is so wonderful, and now I'm reading Brideshead Revisited.
#456re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 8/28/08 at 7:34pmI recently finished The World is Flat and right now, I'm reading Nothing Like it in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, by Stephen Ambrose. So far, its alright, but I'm not wild about it.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#457re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 9/2/08 at 11:26amMy weekend vacation read was Christopher Bram's Exiles in America. Today, I will start John Barrowman's autobiography, Anything Goes.
"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
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#458re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 9/2/08 at 11:31amJust finished LUNAR PARK by Bret Easton Ellis. Unbelievably good.
"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
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#459re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 9/2/08 at 11:31amRead about half of DeLillo's WHITE NOISE, and have moved on to a re-read of Heller's CATCH-22, which is gradually becoming my choice for the Great American Novel.
"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
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
#460re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 9/15/08 at 10:19am
I finished Anything Goes yesterday. I started Dead Man Walking last night in preparation for Sister Helen Prejean's visit to my church this Sunday.
"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
Updated On: 9/15/08 at 10:19 AM
TxTwoStep
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
#461re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 9/15/08 at 10:33amre-reading BOY WHO PICKED THE BULLETS UP (so great) and finally starting, at long last, THE NIGHT LISTENER
Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys.
"I guarantee that we'll have tough
times. I guarantee that at some point
one or both of us will want to get out.
But I also guarantee that if I don't
ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for
the rest of my life..."
#462re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 9/15/08 at 10:52amVanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
www.tinydancer5.tumblr.com
#463re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 9/15/08 at 11:24am
'A Bloody Field at Shrewsbury' by Edith Pargeter.
The Cadfael-lady writing about Henry IV, Prince Hal, and Hotspur. It's AWESOME. If over-descriptive. :3
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#464re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 9/15/08 at 11:36am
"Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult"
I just read that last week! It was great, but then again all of her books are great.
Right now I'm reading Family Pictures by Sue Miller.
KFTC!!!!!
TxTwoStep
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
#465re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 9/15/08 at 12:05pmthought i posted but maybe not: re-reading BOY WHO PICKED THE BULLETS UP (it just gets better, particularly in war time) and finally reading NIGHT LISTENER
Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys.
"I guarantee that we'll have tough
times. I guarantee that at some point
one or both of us will want to get out.
But I also guarantee that if I don't
ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for
the rest of my life..."
xoangel2789xo
Broadway Star Joined: 11/3/07
#466re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 9/15/08 at 6:34pmFinished Brighton Beach Memoirs last night and I'm still stuck on the Historian.
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#469re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 9/15/08 at 8:07pm
Stroke magazine.
The story section.
But you are, my love, the astronaut/
Flying in the face of science/
I will gladly stay an afterthought/
Just bring back some nice reminders
#470re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 9/16/08 at 12:33pmNorwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#471re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 9/16/08 at 12:36pmDYNAMIC DUOS...a surprisingly good self help book about gay relationships that could very well help yr buddy Borstal find a man!
"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
#472re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 9/16/08 at 12:36pm
Norwegian Wood?
Is that one of the stories in the magazine Maraclea2 is reading?!?
"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
#473re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 9/16/08 at 12:37pmBorstal, Keith Swain, author of said relationship book will be signing copies of his book at my church on Sunday!
"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
#474re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 9/16/08 at 12:45pm
Haha! That would be rather appropriate, wouldn't it? 
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