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What are you currently reading?
#200re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/1/08 at 9:41pmcturtle sings BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE to broomstickboy :=o
RIP glebby <3
#201re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/1/08 at 9:43pm"and the women you will wow"
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
#202re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/1/08 at 10:19pm'On Chesil Beach' by Ian McEwan. I'm only about 20 pages into it so far. Seems like it has a slightly similar premise to Atonement...
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#203re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 11:14am"Mistaken Identity" by Lisa Scottoline- I am a teacher and thought I'd read some fluff over break. Boy, did I find it. This is a paperback legal thriller, full of melodrama. Needless to say, I am really enjoying it.
#204re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 12:25pmI'm reading "Born Standing Up" by Steve Martin and "Last Night at the Lobster" by Stewart O'Nan. The Steve Martin book is quite enjoyable. It recounts his younger days working at Disneyland and then his progression as a stand-up comedian, including his first few appearances on SNL. The O'Nan novel I'm not far enough into to give much insight, but so far I really like his writing style.
#205re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 12:28pmJust finished "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister," and loved it. Liked it a lot more than "Wicked" and even "Son of a Witch."
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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
#206re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 12:59pm
I just read Young, Fabulous, and Broke by Suze Orman. I HIGHLY suggest all read it! Especially if you have no clue about how to take charge of your finances. ESPECIALLY, if you haven't started preparing for retirement. Especially if you are young and think you still have time to worry about this stuff.
Start now and see how much farther along you will be. If I had only started 10 years ago, I could have ended up with double the retirement I will have now.
And it's not your usual finance book. She makes it easy to comprehend and applicable to reality.
BroadwayBaby21
Broadway Star Joined: 8/20/04
#207re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 2:31pmI just started Becoming Jane Austen by Jon Spence. It's what the movie Becoming Jane was based on. It's pretty good so far!
-If you don't like your fate, change it. You are your own master.- Aida
#208re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 4:59pm
And Suze came out as a lesbian last year!
cturtle, I did recommend First Person Plural. I am curious to know more of your thoughts.
"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
camerangel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/04
#209re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 5:03pmI just finished a book called "Broken". Tonight I intend to start "Queen of Dragons"
"All work and no smut makes Cammy lose her edge." ~DG
"Someday I'm going to have a baby and I'm gonna name her L'il Mimi Marquez and I and will sing to her every day and when she's a toddler I will say "L'il Mimi Marquez, clad only in a bubble diaper, will perform her famous play pen handcuff dance to the sounds of breast milk being pumped!" ~Kringas
"Someday I'm going to have a baby and I'm gonna name her L'il Mimi Marquez and I and will sing to her every day and when she's a toddler I will say "L'il Mimi Marquez, clad only in a bubble diaper, will perform her famous play pen handcuff dance to the sounds of breast milk being pumped!" ~Kringas
#210re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 6:12pmHenry IV part 2. It's for an audition.
"I'm strong enough to fight and win" -Michael Arden
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#211re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 8:20pmThe Book of Mormon
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#212re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 8:25pm
THE TERROR DREAM by Susan Faludi. Stunning examination of the Bush era America, on how reactionary hysteria squelched gains made by feminism post 9/11. But don't be put off by that, as if it's a dry and typical ant-Bush rant/polemic -- the book is far more complex, even uninterested in Bush-bashing. Faludi takes a big step back from grandstanding. It's about the culture's innate need to reinvent the white male rescue mythology (prominent in movies like THE SEARCHERS)that goes back to colonial times. The single most important look at how we are processing these troubling times.
But I also loved THE EMPORER'S CHILDREN, which is curiously almost about the same thing.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
#213re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 8:43pmHis Dark Materials
-Benjamin
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#214re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 8:49pm
The Twilight Trilogy by Stephenie Meyer.
Woo!
#215re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 8:51pmI'm still reading Twelve.
"Writing is like prostitution. First, you do it for love, then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for money." ~ Moliere
#216re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 9:25pm
I'm rereading Rebel Angels, by Libba Bray, in preparation to read The Sweet Far Thing (conclusion of the trilogy!)
Just read The Baltimore Waltz, by Paula Vogel. Attempting Arcadia, but I'm finding Stoppard rather difficult.
"The art of Illusion is the art of love; and the art of love is the blood-red heart of the world." - Tony Kushner, "The Illusion"
#217re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 9:36pm
I'm almost finished with A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen and then will start Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships by Richard W. Bulliet.
I also just picked up GO! Magazine which I'm intermittently reading and typing.
--Like an odd exotic creature on display inside a zoo, hearing children asking questions makes me ask some questions too...--
#218re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 9:46pmoh, thanks, DBP! i'll let you know my thoughts more when i've read further. right now i'm on an editing binge, so reading takes a back seat. ha!
RIP glebby <3
#219re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 9:51pmThe Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
seymour krelborn
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/03
#220re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 9:58pmBorn Standing Up by Steve Martin & Radio On by Sarah Vowell
LadyRosecoe
Broadway Star Joined: 8/4/07
#221re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 11:16pmFor the first time in a while, a current popular fiction novel caught my eye: Consequences, by Penelope Lively. Has anyone read it or heard anything before I shell out for a hardcover edition?
#222re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/3/08 at 11:10amI just finished Rabbit Hole. I wished I could've seen it!!! Now I'm reading Querelle by Jean Genet.
#223re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/3/08 at 1:10pm
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (2/3 way through)
Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire (1/2 way through)
My Life in Three Acts by Helen Hayes (1/2 way through)
Although we have are pride, we have been known to cast for food.
BERNARD TELSEY CASTING, C.S.A.
"One more outburst from you sir and I bludgeon you to death with this microphone" The Wedding Singer
"One more outburst from you sir and I bludgeon you to death with this microphone" The Wedding Singer
#224re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 1/15/08 at 8:59pm
I recently finished Playing for Pizza by John Grisham. It is one of his non law books, similar to Bleachers. About an already washed up young NFL quarterback going to play for an American football team in Italy. Besides the good hearted story, the book is full of descriptive accounts of Italian culture and settings. I really enjoyed it. John's newest law center book will be out 1/29/08 called "The Appeal" for anyone who is interested.
I literally just finished The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. I originally only picked it up a while ago because I had seen several people mention it on here and in other places too. I didn't have a real desire to read it, so it sat a while. I figured I'd finally get it out of the way and well I am glad I did. It was a really wonderful book, totally not what I was expecting, which I think is what made me like it the most. It was a story so different than the ones I had been reading lately.
Still deciding what I will read next. The Borders book store is going out of business by my house. I already picked up a bunch of plays, and know I will pick up a bunch more books in the next week or so as the discounts get higher.
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