What are you currently reading? — Page 6

#126

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 8/24/07 at 7:17pm

"April Morning" By Howard Faust

Bad. bad. You get the drift.

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#127

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 8/24/07 at 7:36pm

"Fame, Fortune, and Other Things On My To-Do List"
...by I don't remember.

It's really a good book. It's the 2nd time I'm reading it. Haha.

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#128

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 8/24/07 at 10:00pm

I recently finished:

THE KITE RUNNER
THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN
THE NANNY DIARIES.

I loved the first 2, liked the 3rd.

I am currently reading THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES which, so far, is terrific.

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#129

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 8/24/07 at 10:42pm

The Secret Life of Bees is really fantastic. I read it about two years ago and could not put it down.

I have The Kite Runner sitting on my shelf, waiting to be read. All of the posts about it on this thread make me want to pick it up and start it NOW.

Currently however, I am reading Edward Rutherford's The Princes of Ireland. It's a little dry and it's taking me a lot of time to get into.

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Updated On: 8/24/07 at 10:42 PM

#130

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 10/29/07 at 1:53pm

I am eight pages into comedian Bob Smith's first novel, Selfish & Perverse, and I hope that these laughs continue!

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"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

#131

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 10/29/07 at 2:11pm

I just finished Wicked, which I enjoyed and recommend. Note: it is very different from the play, and definitely not for kids.

I just started a book called The 13th Apostle, which seems to be a religious thriller a la Angels & Demons.

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#132

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 10/29/07 at 2:47pm

The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman, for my Dramatic Lit class

The Pacific War 1931-1945 by Saburo Ienaga, for my Modern Japan class

nothing for fun...

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#133

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 10/29/07 at 2:55pm

Dark justice - William Bernhardt

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9/10 - Next To Normal, Ensemble Theatre
9/18 - Brian Stokes Mitchell, Cincy Pop's
9/28 - Death Of A Salesman, Wright State

#134

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 10/29/07 at 3:08pm

The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt

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#135

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 10/29/07 at 3:11pm

Christopher Durang: Complete Full-Length Plays, 1975-1995

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#136

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 10/29/07 at 3:16pm

Last week I read:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (again... and again...)
Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman (it was all right, a bit self indulgent)
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

This weekend I finally finished Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom and now I'm going to read Ian McEwan's Atonement, although I started The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami. I'll finish that afterwards. I think I might take a break and read Macbeth first.

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joey

#137

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 10/29/07 at 3:21pm

Changing Planes by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

and when driving, listening to

Wicked, by Gregory Maguire

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#138

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 10/29/07 at 5:03pm

Just finished THE NINE by Jeffrey Toobin (about the Supreme Court), KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL by Anthony Bourdain and SERVICE INCLUDED by Phoebe Damrosch (a behind the scenes memoir of the 4-star restaurant Per Se). Just started WHEN BLANCHE MET BRANDO by Sam Staggs (tracing the history of the writing and production of the many stage and film versions of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE). I may read THE BRIEF AND WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO by Junot Diaz next (I never read fiction but the rave reviews were very persuasive).

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#139

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 10/29/07 at 5:05pm

I'm actually in the middle of reading Diaz's new novel and it's quite good so far. You might get a little lost if you're not familiar with some Spanish slang, but it is engaging nonetheless. The narrative is quite interesting as it moves between characters and time periods, especially during the height of Trujillo's reign.

#140

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 10/29/07 at 5:06pm

Loving Frank (about Frank Lloyd Wright and his mistress/muse Mamah Cheney) by Nancy Horan.

#141

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 10/29/07 at 5:30pm

(This thread always gives me hope for this board.)

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"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

#142

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 10/29/07 at 5:34pm

Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides.

#143

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 10/29/07 at 6:02pm

I'm just starting Atonement. For what it's worth, I quite liked the first chapter!

#144

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 10/29/07 at 6:16pm

The Icebound Land by John Flanagan (3rd Ranger's Apprentice book)

I got halfway through it just yesterday afternoon.

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#145

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 10/29/07 at 8:30pm

Kite Runner: heartbreaking

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#146

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 10/29/07 at 9:38pm

i'm reading Sophie Tucker's autobiography & i love her more with every sentence!

#147

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 10/29/07 at 9:45pm

The Nanny Diaries.

I started reading it on my L commute today. So far, so good.

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#148

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 10/29/07 at 9:55pm

Nanny Diaries is fun - much better than the movie.

I am currently reading Cymbeline, Pygmalion and Rock 'n Roll. And I have tickets to the first two. Loved Utopia, but I am not sure I want to see RnR. Just too obscure for me.

#149

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 10/29/07 at 11:07pm

Justagirl, we should start a two person thread about Atonement :P


Ariella, I recently finished Middlesex. Jeff Eugenides is just such an astounding author.

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yr ronin,
joey

#150

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 11/10/07 at 3:24pm

I just finished reading "Skinny Bitch", and am now am terrified to eat meat. I just got back from my first ever trip to Whole Foods as a result. I bought all sorts of organic whatnot, including a frozen chicken fettucini alfredo (it's vegan and has semolina pasta).

I'll probably regret this shopping spree in a couple of days when the food tastes like wallpaper and I'm craving Burger King.

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