What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Rhiannon]

(it's all right, I forgive you).

It depends on the books. I think pretty much all books should be read in the order they were published, because that's the order in which the reader is meant to find things out. The author does it on purpose. I probably got this from hearing from Robin McKinley that she dislikes it when people put The Hero and the Crown before The Blue Sword- she said that she wrote them in that order because that's how they were meant to be read.

 

[FoolOfATook]

I just read Dan Brown's wonderful novel The Da Vinci Code, and right now I'm reading some of Will and Ariel Durant's History Of The Modern World (Volume IV, for those who need to know such things[/I] as I wait for another one of Brown's books to arrive from Amazon.

 

[Rhiannon]

I've been hearing a lot about The Da Vinci Code- most people at R'ville said they really enjoyed it.

I finished American Gods (it was excellent, FoaT- Have you read Douglas Adams The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul? It's kind of the same theme, only really bizarre and wacky and funny- I suppose that's redundant, I did already say 'Douglas Adams').

I've started The Green Knight by Irish Murdoch, which is rather slow, but I'm curious enough about it to keep going- I want to know why it's called 'The Green Knight', for one thing. But I'm also itching for a re-read of Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis (love that book), but I have all these books on my TBR glaring at me...I'm thinking I should pick of the Zimiavia trilogy soon. I read the first five pages when I was nine, but it was too much for me then. I remember it clearly though- good sign (I have a distinct memory of reading the first paragraph of For Whom the Bell Tolls, around the same age).

But I also would like to re-read The King's Damosel and King Arthur's Daughter by Vera Chapman before I ship them off to LadyDernhelm (who had better take good care of them because they are hideously out of print...)

 

[Courtney]

I just finished reading Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, and I am now reading The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells.

Mansfield Park was kind of disappointing compared to Austen's other books. I thought the characters were static, and the plot was relatively predictable... didn't end the way I wanted it to end...

 

[reem]

i've just finised this sci-fi book called 'dreamweaver' and am now reading 'tom jones' my henry fielding it's really nice i had to kind of concentrate in the beggining because fielding has a bit of a 'boistrous' way in writting, he likes to confuse his readers! unlike dikens, who is, i must say, trully the most amazing writer after isaac asimov he's amazing!! i've lately finished nicholas nickleby, and it was really something
reem

 

[Rhiannon]

I'm about halfway through Iris Murdoch's The Green Knight (ah-ha, she wrote it towards the end of her life when she was going off her rocker, that's why the dialogue is so weird), but I've set it aside because my shelves are overflowing with serious biblio-joy; a friend in the UK sent me a signed (signed!) copy of Jasper Fforde's The Well of Lost Plots (not out in the states yet), and a used book seller in the UK send me The Three Damosels by Vera Chapman, which is an omnibus of her Arthurian trilogy- The Green Knight, The King's Damosel (one of my favorite books), and King Arthur's Daughter, which are all hideously out of print in the states (hurrah for the UK!).

I read the very beginning of the Fforde, but I've made myself (made myself) set it down so that I can blaze through The Three Damosels so that I can lend it to LadyDernhelm (I've only read the last two books in the trilogy before).

 

[FoolOfATook]

I've just begun reading Dan Brown's Angels & Demons, the book that comes before The Da Vinci Code. I'm only about 30 pages into, but I have great expectations for it, based on how much I enjoyed The Da Vinci Code (which I think you will enjoy, Rhiannon, when you get around to it).

 

[Eliot]

While (still) in the midst of Mein Kampf, I'm also reading How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove. So far, it's very interesting.

 

[Rhiannon]

The Da Vinci code is definitely on my to get list, FoaT (my really long to get list...someone save me from myself!)

 

[Isilme]

haha, i feel so out of place! Almost everybody is reading a Sci-Fi book and i'm reading the Gossip Girl series or the Travalling Pants (young adult i know but funny!!) but i want to read the Mists of Avelon or the Thief lord soon. So ya... that's me!

 

[LegolasLuver]

Right now I am reading the Chronicles or Narnia: The Horse and his Boy and Song in the Silence

 

[Isilme]

I've tried reading the Narnia series but i keep falling asleep during them, i've gotten through the first two, I'll attempt the others some other time. Don't get me wrong i like them it's just they put me to sleep.

 

[Courtney]

I just started reading Lady Susan which is based on an unfinished novel by Jane Austen. I love it!

 

[reem]

has anyone ever read 'the priestess of avalon' by marion zimmer bradley?? its pretty good. i would recomend it to any fantasy lovers...especially if youre interested in celtic-mystic things...i think its celtic...not sure though. but its very good nonetheless.
i'd also recomend reading "morgan's run' by...by...whatshername?....i forgot...i think it was something like colleen mcculough os somthing like that. it's one of my favourites.
also, 'sky sketcher' is really great, though i can't remember by who...oh well.
reem

 

[legandir]

Three readings going on right now

The Lost Road and other tales (HOME series # 5)
Red Sox Century
To Kill a Mockingbird

all at various points but all VERY entertaining...

 

[Isilme]

Originally posted by reem
has anyone ever read 'the priestess of avalon' by marion zimmer bradley?? its pretty good. i would recomend it to any fantasy lovers...especially if youre interested in celtic-mystic things...i think its celtic...not sure though.

I really enjoyed the mists of avalon, is the priestess of avalon be4 or after the one i've read?

 

[Talierin]

I'm reading Wolfskin and Child of the Prophecy by Juliet Marillier (if you haven't read her Sevenwaters trilogy (daughter of the forest, son of the shadows, and child of the prophecy), what are you waiting for!), and In the Forests of Serre by Patricia McKillip (All her books are excellent, go. read.). Plus various C.S. Lewis books, and Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy

 

[Rhiannon]

I enjoyed The Mists of Avalon, but I don't think I'd like it if I were to re-read it because since then I've gotten royally tired of feminist pagan Arthurian re-tellings. It was interesting the first time, but now I respond with Oh no, not another one.

Which is kind of my response to the book I'm reading now for my book group- Hinds Feet on High Places. The reading experience is sort of like this; "THIS *whump* IS *whump* AN *whump* ALLEGORY! *whump whump* MORAL LESSON! *whump* RELIGIOUS IDEALS! *whump whump*" etc. As much as I love my God and my faith, I don't enjoy being beaten about the head and shoulders with hideously obvious allegories. Well, next book grou selection os Seabiscuit, and after that I'm thinking about picking Till We Have Faces.


legandir, I love To Kill a Mockinbird.

 

[Rhiannon]

Wolfskin is awesome, though I liked the Sevenwaters Trilogy better, and aaaaargh! I want In the Forests of Serre!

 

[Eliot]

Every day for my devotions, I'm doing a study on Joseph. I'm using a devotional book called Joseph: A Man With Character. You use it along with a bunch of scripture. It's very good.