What'cha Reading?

[Randomnity]

I will be reading speaker for the dead and xenocide (sequels to ender's game, by orson scott card) as soon as I get the initiative to pick them up at the library, where they're waiting for me.

And also catch-22, when I pick it up, and also some book about string theory I'm struggling through, and I'm also 'reading' a book of "brain-exercises" or something like that. And I started reading a mindless Xanth book by piers anthony, but I got bored quickly. And I'm re-reading Redwall, too.

(I like to read many books concurrently, as you can see. I get too bored of one book if it takes longer than one session to read)

 

[sundowning]

To Kill a Mockingbird and Emma.

I'm at the part where Mrs. Elton comes to Highbury.

Kind of interested to see how it ends.

Also reading A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore (kind of gaimen-esque) and Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott.

 

[Lookin4theBestNU]

Reflections on the human condition by Eric Hoffer

 

[PuddleRiver]

The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre.

 

[Trystorp]

I just joined a "50 books in a year" challenge group on LibraryThing. As I state in my post, I think I probably read far more than that but it should be interesting to track them over the course of a year.

LibraryThing post

Ah, I notice this is my first posting here. I've been lurking since the beginning but hadn't taken the plunge yet.

 

[wyrdsister]

I'm reading Coalescent by Stephen Baxter.

I lurve sci fi.

 

[Rajah]

Nothing at the moment

Anyone want to give me a suggestion? I like books that make me cringe.

Chuck Palahniuk.


EDIT - Here's my favorite review from amazon about Palahniuk's Choke:

Chief Justice Brennan in 1957 described this book when he wrote the Roth decision and defined obscenity. When a work is utterly without redeeming social importance and when for the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest, it is obscene. This book about a sex addict is marked by an immoderate and/or unwholesome interest in unusual sexual desire: the very definition of prurient. Choke could be subtitled: ' A Dictionary of Genitalia and Sexual Intercourse to Debase the Human Body and the Sex Act.'

 

[Jasz]

tipping point by gladwell

 

[nottaprettygal]

Chuck Palahniuk.


EDIT - Here's my favorite review from amazon about Palahniuk's Choke:

Yikes. Okay! I'm going to read it.

Thanks.

 

[raincrow007]

I just joined a "50 books in a year" challenge group on LibraryThing. As I state in my post, I think I probably read far more than that but it should be interesting to track them over the course of a year.

LibraryThing post

Ah, I notice this is my first posting here. I've been lurking since the beginning but hadn't taken the plunge yet.

Trystorp! :hi:

Ever read The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx?

 

[Eileen]

Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
A Cure for Dreams - Kaye Gibbons
A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry (this is with the kids)

and occasionally some poetry, depending on my mood... Mary Oliver, mostly, for the time being.

 

[Geoff]

Nobody seems to read trash here. I keep waiting for someone to post that they are reading Danielle Steele or the like!

-Geoff

 

[C.J.Woolf]

Ever read The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx?

I forgot that was an Infatuation Book Club selection of mine.

Nobody seems to read trash here. I keep waiting for someone to post that they are reading Danielle Steele or the like!

Nobody admits to reading trash here. Maybe that's one for the Secrets thread.

 

[Ivy]

Nobody seems to read trash here. I keep waiting for someone to post that they are reading Danielle Steele or the like!

-Geoff

*ahem*

I'm about to start Son of a Witch, the sequel to Wicked. Go ahead and revoke my lit degree now.

 

[Littlelostnf]

Nothing at the moment

Anyone want to give me a suggestion? I like books that make me cringe.

Out: by Natsuo Kirino
Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino

Was in Seattle..heard her do a book reading at the Elliot Bay Book Co. (my favorite place there). You'd cringe at Out.

 

[Littlelostnf]

Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
A Cure for Dreams - Kaye Gibbons
A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry (this is with the kids)

and occasionally some poetry, depending on my mood... Mary Oliver, mostly, for the time being.

I read Reading Lolita in Tehran. I truly enjoyed it and I think that Azar Nafisi is an ENFJ (so many things she thought and did I would think and do) But it took me sooooo long to read. Generally I breeze thru a book in a day or two. That book took me two weeks.

 

[Littlelostnf]

tipping point by gladwell

Great book. I heart Malcolm Gladwell.

 

[Littlelostnf]

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
(can't seem to finish it..I keep losing the book)

 

[raincrow007]

I forgot that was an Infatuation Book Club selection of mine.

What are you trying to say?

 

[Langrenus]

Out of interest, has anyone read (and I mean actually read, not stopped after 30 pages and/or just allowed-their-eyes-to-wander-over-the-pages-without-digesting) Ulysses?

If so, any tips?