What book/books are you reading right now?

[FizzingWhizzbees]

I've finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix!

 

[IWasBored]

I've finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix!

yeah me too...looking for something else to read (still avoiding dostoevsky...i swear some day i will read crime and punishment but not sure WHEN...)

 

[FizzingWhizzbees]

Crime and Punishment is a wonderful book. You definitely have to read it sometime! I have a copy of The Brothers Karamazov waiting for me to read, but I think I need some more light-hearted fiction for the time being.

 

[elevatedmole]

I finished OOTP yesterday and now I'm looking for something to read, too.. I think I might read Bridget Jones' Diary.

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

I have just finished Hilary and Jackie by Hilary and Piers du Pre. Pretty much record time for me (less than a week!) considering the time I take to read a book these days.

 

[IWasBored]

Crime and Punishment is a wonderful book. You definitely have to read it sometime! I have a copy of The Brothers Karamazov waiting for me to read, but I think I need some more light-hearted fiction for the time being.

yeah i know it's great, and i've been meaning to read it since 11th grade russian class. we did a whole unit on dostoevsky, which was capped off with a 5 page paper (in russian) on a film version of it.

The Brothers Karamazov...yeah, that's waiting on the shelf at my house too...

 

[bonocrazy88]

I am reading "The Guardian" by Nicholas Sparks. It is the only one I haven't read. I read all the others this summer. I have been waiting for this one to come in at the library. Has anyone read it, or read any of his books?

 

[Lemonchick]

I'm reading...

Killing Pablo- Mark Bowden (almost done)

News of Kidnapping- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

They both talk about the same period of Narco-Terrorism, and the war with the drug cartels. Pretty cool!

 

[FizzingWhizzbees]

Is News of Kidnapping good? I've read One Hundred Years of Solitude and loved that, so I want to read something else by Gabriel Garcia Marquez when I have chance to.

 

[Lemonchick]

It's excellent!! I really love Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Love and other demons is also very good.

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

I read Of Love And Other Demons. I remember liking it but my short attention span made me put down the book halfway and I haven't picked it up since. I need to resume my reading of it soon though.

Currently I'm reading the Outsider by Albert Camus. Next up, besides Marquez, is probably Crash by JG Ballard.

 

[IWasBored]

i had problems trying to keep the names straight in 100 years of solitude

 

[meegannie]

Currently reading:

THe Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland

 

[elevatedmole]

Pure Dead Magic, by Debi Gliori. Kids' book. Magic, mafia, rats, etc.

I'm also reading one of the Anne of Green Gables books on the side, and about a million others, like usual. I'm so bad about starting a book and never finishing it.

 

[u2popmofo]

I'm reading...

Killing Pablo- Mark Bowden (almost done)

How was/is 'Killing Pablo'?

I loved the 'Blackhawk Down' and have considered buying 'Killing Pablo' because of it.

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

yukio mishima: the sound of waves (translated by meredith wood)
kerry dooley and chris twomey: private universe: crowded house
various: celtic music
nicholas slominsky: musical anecdots
kazuo ishigoro : an artist of the floating world

 

[elevatedmole]

Currently:

Near a Thousand Tables: The History of Food, by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, an Oxford professor. It's really well researched and written, but sort of daunting to read.

I have about a million NEW books that were just released recently.. new Philip Pullman book, new Tanith Lee book, etc.

 

[TiaraGurl]

Life of pi-yann martel

before that dry by augusten burroughs

I skimmed U2 the road to pop which was eh and next I am going to read atonement by ian mcewan

 

[ewig]

I'm reading the Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie.
I love it so much, it's so beautiful!

But I do think I like the Satanic Verses better...Also very beautiful.

Haha, I still got about 6 books on my bookshelf I never read, but I'm just addicted to books, I keep buying and buying them...But I told myself not to buy any more books till I finished all the books I've got.

 

[FizzingWhizzbees]

Haha, I still got about 6 books on my bookshelf I never read, but I'm just addicted to books, I keep buying and buying them...But I told myself not to buy any more books till I finished all the books I've got.

That's one of my habits too. I've got about 20 books waiting to be read, yet whenever I see something I want to read I can't help but buy it.

 

[ewig]

well, better a book then a drug adiction then huh?

 

[Scarletwine]

That's one of my habits too. I've got about 20 books waiting to be read, yet whenever I see something I want to read I can't help but buy it.

That's so me. I had to drag myself out of B&N after going in to buy my son the new Series of Unfortunate Events. Then ended up buying a lighthearted fiction in line at the grocery.

 

[E.B. Realthing]

Into the Margaret Atwood lately: Cat's Eye, Oryx & Crake, Handsmaid's Tale

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

I'm reading alot of old Agatha Christie mysteries...I've always been fond of her work but I haven't read her in years.

I've just finished The End Of The Affair by Graham Greene though, in between all the Poirots and Miss Marples. I have to say it's one of the best things I've ever read. I will need to see the film sometime.

 

[foray]

just finished Laughter In The Dark, Nabokov.

foray

 

[Bono's shades]

I finished Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy over the weekend. I love his novels, but I always feel depressed for three straight days after reading them.

Jude was one of a ton of books I picked up at a used book sale a couple weeks ago. I can't decide on which one to start next. I'm thinking of trying Flannery O'Connor: The Complete Stories.

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

I read 'A Star Called Henry' by Roddy Doyle for the past two days. Good book.

 

[Keocmb]

I just started "Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut.

I've got a stack of Anton Chekov in the corner, too.

 

[adamswildhoney]

I am reading "They Also Served: Women's Stories From the World War Two Era"

 

[bono=genius]

i finished reading A FINE BALANCE by Rohinton Mistry which is such an amazing book! its about India and the state of emergency in 1972...its really interesting..what ppl went through at that time..and u learn soooooo much about India and the reality of living there.

and now i'm reading Angela's Ashes - Frank Mcourt...really interestin so far..can't put it down!.