What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Elendil3119]

I just finished Farmer Giles of Ham and Smith of Wooton Major, both by Tolkien. Now I'm rereading The Sil, RotK, BoLT1, and also The Manual of Christian Doctrine, by Louis Berkhof.

 

[FoolOfATook]

I just finished the first two chapters of H.G. Wells' novel The Time Machine, a book on the long list of books that I've just never gotten around to reading. While I was at the library, I picked up the graphic novels Supreme and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, both by Alan Moore, one of the most under-rated writers in recent memory, in my opinion. Perhaps because he picked a media that never will get the respect it deserves...

 

[Eliot]

I started reading The Adventures of Tom Bombadil today. It's all right. I'm only in the beginning, though.

I hate to read a few books at a time, but I had to give in to the temptation.

 

[Courtney]

Oh gee. i haven't been on in a while! Well I read Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley, Animal Farm by George Orwell, and now I am finishing Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. I love Animal Farm, but it makes me so sad. All I want is for the animals to be happy... and think of how well-off they could have been! Hot and cold water, and electricity in every stall! It makes me cry!

 

[Rhiannon]

I read Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley

One of my most favorite books by one of my most favorite authors ever. Adore/worship/grovel etc. etc. Did you like it? *hopes very much that you did* I also love Austen, though I haven't managed to finish S&S- I was reading it during our move, and when we painted my room it got kicked under the bed and I only found it recently.

I finished A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin, as well as I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb- an interesting novel, if a little long and complicated (a lot of converging plots) to absorb in two days, and The Squire's Tale by Gerald Morris, which was great fun. I tried to make a start on Rebecca by Dauphne de M-something, but fifty pages in I started to feel very sick, and had to stop. So much for training myself to not to get car sick.

 

[FoolOfATook]

. I tried to make a start on Rebecca by Dauphne de M-something,

Just watch the Hitchcock film. It's his only one that won best picture.

 

[Rhiannon]

I haven't seen the film (don't tell me anything!). I'm having trouble getting in to the book. The first person narrator doesn't have a name, for one thing. I find that this bothers me very much. And, as is my rule, I've gotten a solid 100 pages in, and decided that if I put the book down now, I will not spend the rest of my life wondering what happened to these people, because at the moment I don't particularly give a hoot about them. I'm going to persevere, though, because so many people have told me they love it. I think I'll start another novel on the side- either The Road Home, which I've been hearing lots and lots of wonderful things about, or do as my brother is urging and re-read Taliesin and Merlin, and hopefully get around to reading the rest of the Pendragon Cycle.

 

[Emma]

Currently reading Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson and am eagerly awaiting book 4 of A Song of Ice and Fire series.

 

[Courtney]

I just finished reading Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton(I hope I spelled his name right) for about the 6th time. I love anthing and everything about dinosaurs... I always have. I used to want to be a paleontologist.

Now I am reading Invasion by Robin Cook (again) and The Eternal Champion by Michael Moorcock (again). I used to read a lot of Robin Cook's stuff, but now I don't really care for his writing style... It just annoys me...

About the Eternal Champion series, I know I have probably asked this before, but does anyone know anything about the last books in the series? There is a list inside the book I am reading now, with 15 books from the series, but I have never been able to find any past book 7 or 8. If anyone knows anything about them or where I could find them, I would really be grateful!!!

 

[My_Precious]

I am in the middle of "The Wishsong of Shannara", and started reading... "The Fellowship..."...yet again.

 

[LegolasLuver]

I just finished TTT and I started on RotK....

 

[FoolOfATook]

For my summer class, I'm reading a whole lot of John Donne. I'm also finishing up Stephen King's novel Firestarter.

 

[Beleg]

I am re-reading Jeffery Archer's Prodigal Daughter. IMHO he has better wit and writing style then King.

 

[Rhiannon]

I am in the middle of "The Wishsong of Shannara"

That's one of the ones I liked- I tired of Shannara pretty quickly, but I liked the main character- was it Wren? It's been a few (five, six) years. Have you read Terry Brooks Running with the Demon?

I went away for the weekend, and got to spend four hours at a Half Price Books because my parents were going to a gun show (boring). I got a whole mess o' books (hb = hard back, tp = trade paper, mm = mass market):

Antigone by Jean Anouilh (script) - I'm going to type up some excerpts from this, if no one objects.

Sophocles I - Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone by Sophocles (mm)

John Donne - Selected Poems (Thrift tp) - Love that Donne.

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter (tp) - I have it already- excellent, dark, scary, gothic, atmospheric fairy tale retellings- but I got another copy to lend out.

Parsifal's Page by Gerald Morris (hb) - very humorous King Arthur retellings- I've only read his The Squire's Tale and The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf, but I loved them both.

Shadow of a Hero by Peter Dickinson (hb) - an excellent book- hard to summarize, though. Dickinson created a fictional European country, complete with history and language; you kind of need to read it to understand the concept, and I can't quote the cover because I left it at Rai's for her to read.

The Blue Hawk by Peter Dickinson (mm) - It's by Peter Dickinson. At the moment that's the extent of my knowledge.

The Boggart and The Boggart and the Monster by Susan Cooper (tp) - I read The Boggart a few years ago, just after it first came out, and loved it (of course I did, it's by Susan Cooper). Roughly, an American family accidentally brings a boggart- a primarily Scottish spirit that belongs to a place or family, if I have my definitions right- back to America with them and it wrecks havoc. I haven't read its sequal, The Boggart and the Monster, yet.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (mm)

Beasts by John Crowley (mm)

American Gods by Neil Gaiman (mm), which I split with Rai (the cost, not the book)

I also found The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, but since Rai had been looking specifically for it and I only found it by happy chance, I let her have it on the understanding that I will be borrowing it. A lot. And I found Talking to Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede, hb, Trina Schart Hyman dustcover, and Snow White & Rose Red: A Modern Fairy Tale by Regina Doman, but as the money was running low Rachel fronted the cost for both of them, but says they may live on my shelves.

I'm 2/3 of the way through with Rebecca- not loving it, but will probably finish it- but I put it aside to sink my teeth in to some of my new books, specifically Beasts, which I am enjoying very much.

 

[My_Precious]

It is Brin, I believe. I like it, but it goes pretty slowly--usually I read much more slowly in engish anyway, but I've been reading this one for a month, and only half way through it.

 

[Eliot]

I'm reading What If? with essays by Stephen E. Ambrose, John Keegan, David McCullough, James M. McPherson, and others. It's where the worlds foremost military historians imagine what might have been. It's edited by Robert Cowley, if you really wanted to know that . . . .

 

[Aragorn21]

Currently I'm reading one of the most BORING books in the world! It's The Diary of Anne Frank . I'm like SNOOOOOORRRR!!!!!

 

[Eliot]

Is it really boring? I was thinking of eventually reading it, but skip that idea if it's boring.

 

[FoolOfATook]

Is it really boring?

No, it's not. It's definitely worth reading.

 

[Aragorn21]

It's not boring knowing about the Frank's experiences, and what it was like being in hiding. But the parts about Anne's personal feelings really aren't very exciting.